Appreciation
03.04.10
Magazines Go To The Movies
This week's Time Out New York cover (illustrated by The Red Dress), reminded me of several movie-inspired magazine covers and layouts. With the Oscars this weekend, why not look back on cinema-inspired layouts. It looks like its been fertile ground for John Korpics (both at Entertainment Weekly and Esquire). Remember seeing others? Done some yourself (I include a few of mine)? Send us yours... we'll post them here.
Billboard (channeling The Social Network; double page spread); creative director: Andrew Horton. (February 5, 2011)
VIBE; featuring 50 Cent; art director: Florian Bachleda.
Esquire, 2003; art director: John Korpics; Illustration: Joe Zeff.
Esquire; featuring Willem Dafoe; art director: John Korpics; Illustration: Joe Zeff.
Billboard, November 3, 2007; featuring Eddie Vedder and Sean Penn;
creative director: Josh Klenert; art director: Christine Bower; senior designer: Greg Grabowy.
Billboard; featuring Common; creative director: Josh Klenert; art director: Christine Bower; senior designer: Greg Grabowy.
Biography magazine; creative director: Don Morris; art director: Josh Klenert;
designer: Greg Grabowy.
Entertainment Weekly; art director: John Korpics.
Entertainment Weekly; art director: John Korpics.
Entertainment Weekly; art director: John Korpics.
Entertainment Weekly, Fall 1995; design director: Robert Newman; art director: Michael Picon.
(Great subhead: "You Autumn Be In Pictures")
GQ (Romanian Edition), March 2009; art director: Catalin Pantazi.
Andrei Michailov, former Senior Designer with the Romanian edition of GQ shares their one page opener done for a story called "For Oscar, We Stay Home."
[updated 01.31.11]
See related stories:
What Are You Looking At: The art of the Opening Film Title
What Are You Looking At: The art of "The End"
I think i may've been an intern around the time that last EW one was created! sigh.
related thought: We all probably super dig on the intro and outro titling sequences that are steadily getting more and more creative and like mini-movies unto themselves. Good source of inspiration for the next crop of movie-influence spreads and features, perhaps:
from the NYTimes yesterday: Honoring The Designs That Get Movies Moving at
South by Southwest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/movies/10titles.html?scp=1&sq=Honoring%20The%20Designs%20That%20Get%20Movies%20Moving&st=cse
I think I was too--working on a Yearbook! I remember that type taking quite a long time to render on the ole Power Macintosh 6100.
Check out this post from Gail Anderson:
Opening movie tiles:
http://tinyurl.com/openingfilmtitle
What Are You Looking At:
"The End" film titles:
http://tinyurl.com/theendfilmtitle