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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
 

Stephen Hawking Cover

↑ Art Director Paloma Lorenzo recently commissioned this portrait of Stephen Hawking for the cover the cover of El País Semanal, the Spanish newspaper's weekend magazine supplement.

↑ The image was later purchased by La Reppublica for the Italian translation of Jose Edelstein's article.


tags: Cover, El Pais semanal, Stephen Hawking, illustration, la reppulica
categories: In Print
Saturday 12.28.13
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

Corporate Knights Magazine

↑  Superhero-themed cover to Corporate Knights #42. ↓

↑  Interior feature, "Super company." ↓

↑  "The .01% can save the planet," featuring Sir Richard Branson as Batman, Jeff Skoll as Arch Angel, Michael Bloomberg as Green Arrow, and Elon Musk as Iron Man. ↓

Art Direction: Jack Dylan

tags: Cover, Elon Musk, bloomberg, corporate knights, illustartion, jeff skoll, richard branson, superheros
Sunday 04.07.13
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

Some Prefer Nettles

I had the honor of creating the cover art for a new English edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's 1929 classic, Some Prefer Nettles.

↑  This edition is part of Random House's new Modern Japanese Classics series. The entire line shares the same title treatment designed by John Gall.

↑  Bunraku, Japanese puppet theater, is central to the novel's theme.

 

↑ Unused sketches. ↓

Art direction: John Gall

tags: Book Cover, Cover, In Print, Junichiro Tanizaki, Random House, Sketches, Some Prefer Nettles, Vintage
Tuesday 03.19.13
Posted by Reid K Johnson
 

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