Mar 9, 2018

Print magazine cover, 1998

Print magazine recently assembled its complete cover collection (1940-1997) in an online archive. It’s a brilliant gallery of visual inspiration, featuring covers by countless talented illustrators and designers. Many of those covers were art directed by longtime Print art director (over 30 years!) Andrew Kner. I was fortunate enough to be able to design a cover for Print, in 1998. It was tied to a story that the magazine did on me, back when I was design director of Details. Kner told me that I could do anything I wanted on the cover, so I put together a semi-crazed rant by an art director, with the kind of things we say when we’re in the midst of a creative moment (and are being tortured by editors/clients). The best part was that the fantasy of the cover imitated life, when I had a fight with Kner over the color of the Print logo. I wanted the cover to be all black and white, and he insisted on a color for the logo…