Where did this now iconic symbol come from? The answer is two lovebirds in Brooklyn. Scholastic's creative director, Elizabeth Parisi, lives with her husband who is an illustrator, Tim O'Brien in Brooklyn. Scholastic asked Parisi to come up with a design for the books. Parisi asked her husband for advice.
“ ‘Hunger Games’ will probably be what people note with my career,” said O’Brien, whose proudest achievement was seeing his portrait of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on the cover of Rolling Stone during the campaign.
“You don’t have control over what becomes your most popular work. The world decides. That’s the lesson,” O’Brien said.
Still, their 12-year-old son, Cassius, said he is impressed by his mom and dad’s role.
“My parents helped start ‘The Hunger Games.’ And now it’s a movie. It’s pretty cool,” the boy gushed. “Everybody in school reads them.”
O'Brien explains what the pin is a symbol of - not just the popular books and movies.
“It is not just a picture of a bird,” he said. “It is something vulnerable. It is a symbol of the main character, Katniss, who is tough and beautiful at the same time.
“There is always a myth that if you pursue art that you will be a starving artist,” OBrien said. “If you have solitary focus, you can achieve anything.”
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