Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Rauschenberg's Tropic cover

In 1979, the artist Robert Rauschenberg was commissioned to create the fold-out cover of The Miami Herald's Tropic magazine's end-of-decade issue. It was the first time an original work of art was created for a newspaper.Rauschenberg and his assistant created the piece of art in The Herald's editorial art department, where I was employed at the time, and I got a chance to see him create the cover

Monday, 18 October 2010

El Minero, Su Esposa y Su Amante

The epic rescue of the Chilean miners turned into a soap opera when two-timing Yonny Barrios went from 2,000 feet underground into the arms of his mistress — while his wife boycotted.However, Susana Valenzuela, the mistress of Yonny Barrios, got a taste of her own medicine when she learned of another mistress Barrios had on the side. Apparently when the miner was in the hospital after his rescue

Sunday, 13 December 2009

The Exotic Menace

Society of Professional Journalists 2010 Sunshine State AwardsFirst Place, Front Page Design, Large NewspapersThe Daytona Beach News-Journal Kelly Ann Markowitz, Jennifer Cason & Octavio DiazComments: Very clean and balanced overall look on all pages. Rail on left is well-illustrated and easy to navigate.Nice use of shading and headers on info boxes and refers to avoid making packages too

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Happy 50th anniversary, Twilight Zone!

On a Friday night in October 1959, Americans began slipping into a dimension of imagination as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. They’ve never really returned.