7/12/10
7/7/10
6/23/10
Megan's Mitfords
Vintage's Nancy Mitford reissues hitting the shelves soon. Beautifully designed by our own—the lovely, the talented—Megan Wilson. Also, check out the website Megan designed for NM. More on the aristocratic and eccentric Mitford family.
6/22/10
CD design
Her first record in a decade and it's amazing.
Haunting, prescient, funny and the music is beautiful. Even Pitchfork loves it.
Cover features Laurie in her Fenway Bergamot guise.
Out today from Nonesuch.
6/16/10
Things Lying Around My Office
Visual communication doesn't come more straightforward than this. They ought to team up.
6/8/10
Found at the train station
5/26/10
Posers
Back in the day, illustrators used to hire photographers and models to stage scenes from their assignments that the artists would then use as reference for their illustrations. This is how it was done for editorial illustration, advertisements and book covers. This practice is still in place today when realistic illustration is needed, but less so, as illustration has gravitated away from life-like rendering.
The illustrator was able to pull a lot of information from these photo sessions: poses, proportion, expression, light source, drape of material, etc.. The stand-in props—paper bags, cardboard tubes—would later be replaced by whatever they were there to represent—cereal boxes, rifles—culled from other source material.
Found these looking through an old box of stuff and can't for the life of me remember where I got them. I like how they exist in their own right, melodramatic poses in humble surroundings. Kind of Lynch-ian and, in a weird way, probably more realistic than the final illustrations. Or maybe that's just me.
front and back
5/21/10
5/17/10
Kids Today 3
Some final projects from this semester's book and cover design class I teach at SVA.
Braulio Amado
Jeremy Boy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ji Soo Lee
5/4/10
5/3/10
Now Buy My Poster (Please!)
Or Gail Anderson's, or Stephen Doyle's, Alex Trochut's, or Ed Fella's, or many others. Type Directors Club in conjunction with Cardon Copy. Its for charity. SOLD (thank you)!
4/28/10
4/22/10
The High, Low and In Between.
The brief: design the cover for a book that is not yet, but soon will be, a major motion picture.
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