On The Record with David Cooper

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Thanks so much to David Cooper, Illustrator and former Photo Director of Health Magazine and Victor Williams, Digital Design Director of TIME for filming the latest installment of On the Record, our members-only series. As a continuation of our in-person Off The Record event hosted by Victor, this candid conversation was recorded on February 4, 2022. After a brief introduction from SPD’s Executive Director, Keisha Dean, the current and former SPD board members, discuss the melting pot of ideas, the importance of representation, and the “multi-faceted beauty and glory of Blackness.”

The On the Record series is typically reserved for SPD members only, however, we are sharing this important conversation publicly for the entire SPD community to watch. SPD Members get access to past speaker events such as For The Love of Entertainment Weekly and our On the Record series.

Check out the full video above! This recording is the second-take of this conversation after the first recording had some technical difficulties. However, we were able to gather a couple good clips from that first conversation and have included them below. Scroll further down to see some work examples they mention during their discussion.

CLIPS


Watch David and Victor get inspired to rap in the first-take of On The Record:

“Black life is complicated. Black family life is complicated.
We got to see all the facets of that.”
- David Cooper

WORK

CREDITS

TIME Magazine

Visions of Equity:
By Jordan Casteel

George Floyd:
Cover illustration by Ange Hillz for TIME

Book Covers

Marcus Makes a Movie:
Cover design by Carol Ly / Random House Kids

Black Boy Out Of Time:
Cover design by Lindy Martin / Faceout Studio

Health Magazine

Simone Biles:
Photo: AB + DM at The Only Agency
Hair: Ben Skervin at The Wall Group
Makeup: Rebecca Restrepo at Walter Schupfer
Wardrobe: Jason Rembert

Gabrielle Union:
Photo: AB + DM at The Only Agency
Hair: Larry Sims at Tracey Mattingly
Makeup: Sam Fine
Wardrobe: Thomas Christos Kikis at The Wall Group
Set: Anna Surbatovich at Art-Dept