Hard to Swallow. Self August 2014
Self. August 2014
Creative director: Barbara Reyes
Art director: Petra Kobayashi
Photographer: Jamie Chung
Lovely concept and beautifully photographed. The pill mirrored by the letter O is a nice touch.
type eh?
Graphic design and typography
Posts Tagged ‘ concept ’
Kate and Wills shop J.Crew
For a story on how J.Crew have taken the brand to London and opened three stores in England’s capital city, it chose to appropriate photographic likenesses of Prince William and his wife Katherine to reinforce that idea—and very nicely done too.
To the magazine’s credit, they show how the art director went about creating the cover.
Rebooting the president
Whatever your political perspective regarding the Affordable Care Act, this is a brilliant cover design.
Billboard on track
This spread from Billboard magazine features type and design that cleverly combines to reinforce the meaning of the headline. Notice the color in the type that was sampled from the hues in the photograph of Tim McGraw by Nigel Parry.
Billboard magazine January 2013
Photograph by Nigel Parry
Election. What election?
How to combine the two top news stories. This couldn’t be more clever.
The illustrator Adrian Tomine writes: “Where I was in Brooklyn, I don’t think I would have even known that there was a major storm happening. So I spent the whole night glued to the Internet and watching everything unfolding, just being shocked that this kind of dramatic destruction was happening just miles outside my home. And I started thinking about how it would affect the election. This is a first for me in terms of doing a cover that’s topical with a quick turnaround, and somehow these two significant events just came together into that one image for me.”
Source: The New Yorker.
Zoom
Figure/ground, alignment, and concept all rolled into this enjoyable page from Marie Claire magazine.
Presidential typography
This masterpiece, for Time magazine, was illustrated by Dylan Roscover following the first presidential debate on October 3rd, 2012. You need to enlarge this one to see the real craftsmanship.
Stephen King inspires
This illustration appeared in Esquire magazine and was commissioned for a short story entitled In the Tall Grass. The illustrator is Luke Lucas.
Balloons and bread
A witty cover using balloons and bread instead of helvetica. I enjoy this very much.
An inside job
If you have, or know anyone who has defaulted on their mortgage, or if you are out of work or struggling to make ends meet, you are rightly angry.
I just finished watching the film Inside Job. The film catalogs the horror story of how the incredibly wealthy, the incredibly influential or the incredibly wealthy, influential financial people destroyed the global money markets in what amounted to the largest Ponzi scheme ever known. Many things happened to make this possible: Deregulation, financial derivative schemes and a host of other dubious practices, including how the rating agencies such as Standard & Poors, gave totally misleading information to investors. And throughout the film many of the people who were part of these events tap danced their way around some very pointed questions. It’s well worth seeing.
Anyway this blog started when I came across this book cover which covers the same ground … I can’t wait to read it.
I love the typographic concept.
Oh and can someone explain how Wall Street bankers are still earning salaries and bonuses that far exceed numbers I can imagine, despite the fact that many of the financial institutions these people work for, were bailed out with my (and your) taxes?
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