For this Time cover story on data mining—the process where your personal information, spending habits, web browsing history, and interests are collected, compiled, and sold to advertisers and marketing companies—we created this portrait of author Joel Stein from Joel’s actual data as collected by several major U.S. data mining companies. Art Director: D.W. Pine
To illustrate the cover of ESPN Magazine‘s 2011 “Best In Sports” issue we portrayed hundreds of sports balls, discs, pucks, spheres, shot puts, birdies, and more, all flying together to form the words “Best In Sports.” Art Director: Jason Lancaster
We teamed up with photographer Frank Hamilton to capture the hundreds and hundreds of balls in all of their glory.
Metropolis‘s “What’s Next” issue predicts the impact (and necessity) of visionary design ideas one, five, and ten years in the future. On the magazine’s cover, the title letters become cut-paper doors, looking inside the issue’s contents. Art Director: Criswell Lappin
OFFICIAL SELECTION, PRINT MAGAZINE’S REGIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL
The Arts&Leisure section’s annual “Year in Culture” issue features Times‘ critics discussing the year’s cultural highlights. Since this issue is purely retrospective, we created a backwards 2006, as if one were looking back through the numerals to the beginning of the year. Art Director: Paul Jean
SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN: Award of Excellence
This custom lettering treatment and background design was loosely inspired by communist propaganda posters, while maintaining some of the general shapes and proportions of Franklin Gothic (Time’s type family). Portrait of Kim Jong Un: Tim O’Brien. Art Director: D.W. Pine
We created this Mad Magazine-style fold-in to accompany editorials by Republican pollster Frank Luntz and former Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle, each recommending ways for a polarized congress to come together to address the country’s urgent problems. Art Director Kristin Lenz worked the “don’t be mad” fold-in concept into the layout as the two editorials are pulled together when the page is folded.
This cover lettering-illustration helped introduce the new look of Imperial Magazine with this exploded diagram of the word “explore.” Art Director: Beth Elzer
The details in each exploded letter represent the different feature articles in the issue.
This cover design for Time's Election Guide takes the form of campaign buttons that represent some of the 2012 election's key issues. Art Director: D.W. Pine
Time Magazine's special Money issue focused on the theme: "How We Spend." The articles in this issue related to American spending habits and consumer financial trends, as well as the growing gap between rich and poor Americans. Art Director: D.W. Pine
For the Arts&Leisure section’s annual issue on the new season in the arts, we ripped The New York Times‘ logo in half, juxtaposing it with a season ticket to create this full page cover. Art Director: Paul Jean
SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN: GOLD MEDAL
This special issue of the Times Book Review focused on many facets of the political spectrum—from party politics to 60s radicalism to racial pandering. Our cover illustration emphasizes the broadness and complexity of the issue. Art Director: Nicholas Blechman
This cover review of Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad details the book's dizzying, intertwined narrative of an ex-punk rocker going not-so-gently into middle age. The "band" names in our imaginary punk rock stickers combine the fire and certainty of punk youth culture with the complexity, humor, and sadness of the characters from the novel. Art Director: Nicholas Blechman
For the cover of the Times‘ Summer Movies preview, we illustrated this array of iconic cinema sunglasses, which filled the Arts&Leisure section’s cover. Art Director: Paul Jean
This article for the Week In Review section discussed how divisive issues such as global warming and race can become more diffused over time... or not. Our anthropomorphic words illustrate some of the author's key points. Art Director: Aviva Michaelov
Case Study
Magazine Covers
A selection of Post Typography’s cover designs and illustrations for magazines and other periodicals.
