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Symphony For the City Of The Dead

↑ Wraparound book jacket illustration. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson.

 

↑ Unused Sketches.

Art Direction: Matt Roeser

tags: Book Cover, Shostakovich, bombing, candlewick, dust jacket, illustration, lenningrad
categories: cover
Wednesday 11.04.15
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

Where She Got The Gun

↑ The New York Times Sunday Book Review "Summer Fiction" edition's cover story: a review of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen.

↑ Unused Sketch. Snowy New England features prominently in novel. After my first set of sketches was received, I was informed that this was the Summer Fiction edition and asked to remove the snow and add the headline.

Art Direction: Joele Cuyler

 

tags: Cover, Eileen, New York Times, book review, car interior, dead rat, illustartion
categories: In Print, cover
Wednesday 10.07.15
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

ASME "Best Cover" Award Finalist.

↑ The American Society of Magazine Editors named my nov 2014 cover of the MIT Technology Review a finalist in Readers’ Choice Award Business and Technology category. Thanks ASME, and thanks to Art Director Nick Vokey who worked super closely with me on this! 

tags: Cover, MMIT technology review, inequality
categories: award, cover
Thursday 05.14.15
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

NY Times: Summer Movies

 

↑ Aging celebrities Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, and Helen Mirren explode onto the cover of the New York Times Summer Movie section.

↑ "This summer's action heros are several shades of gray."

Art direction: Shannon Robertson

tags: Denzel Washington, Helen Mirren, New York Times, Tom Cruise, illustration, old celebrities, old stars
categories: cover
Tuesday 05.05.15
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

Number 6


↑ "The number 6" was the only prompt for this cover of the French magazine Kiblind. I imagined a bronze sculpture of six creatures in a mortal struggle.

↑ The image was printed as a t-shirt (available here), and released at an accompanying gallery show in Paris.

↑ Rough sketch of a concept that I scrapped early on.


tags: 51, 6, Kiblind, bronze, crocodile, greek sculpture, lion, snake, wolf
categories: cover
Monday 04.06.15
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

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