Posts Tagged ‘ wit ’

Hard to Swallow. Self August 2014

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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.

Sand strong

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Golf Digest, June 2014
Creative director: Ken DeLago
Art director: Tim Oliver
Deputy art director: Riva Schwartz

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.

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Rebooting the president

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Whatever your political perspective regarding the Affordable Care Act, this is a brilliant cover design.

The hedge fund myth

Nice to see a witty cover from the Bloomberg team.

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April showers

I have previously called on Fast Company magazine for something typographically witty. Here is an image for the calendar page of the April issue. Type made from water.

[ Fast Company April 2011 ]