Behind the May Cover
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:49 am
For our May cover we approached Brian Collins to create a conceptual illustration for the winning Next Generation project. He and his talented team—John Fullbrook III, Timothy Goodman, and Jason Nuttal—passed along a handful of smart directions, but the pinwheel/pylon juxtaposition really piqued our interest. That concept turned out to be the one John felt the strongest about as well, and he was excited about developing it further. The final cover—fun, bold, and hopeful—clearly reflects our winner’s idea. And be on the loookout for pinwheels; they’re likely to pop up in the oddest places…
Left: an alternate version of the May cover; click to view a larger image.
Categories: Behind the Cover
Tags: graphic design
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Lovely covers, but seriously, who hasn’t thought about putting wind turbines on transmission line towers?!?
I always look forward to the Next Generation competition results because they’re usually innovative beyond my capacity. Unfortunately, not this year. Half of the projects awarded are replicas or very similar ideas to what I see and hear, with relative frequency, around the studios. What happened?
Andrea Gaffney
(Masters student in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley)
Comment by andrea — May 13, 2009, @ 6:30 pm
Sometime the obvious escapes us as happened with Thomas Edison. Please give credit where it is due.
Comment by Horace — May 15, 2009, @ 10:48 am