Here are my latest magazine covers for Vanity Fair. I’m especially amused by how perfectly the Out and Car and Driver logos fit together.
These covers of mine appeared in the March 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. I was excited to finally get a chance to deploy Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed for a Cosmopolitan parody.
This week’s issue just arrived in the mail, and it’s a keeper.
This Palin nomination is going great! And now she’s laid out her geopolitical philosophy in the new issue of Foreign Affairs.
An outtake from my December 2005 Vanity Fair assignment.
Here are the four magazine covers I created for the December 2005 issue of Vanity Fair.
Thanks to something Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes created, the October issue of Vanity Fair has gotten a little bit of attention. The issue also contains something I created: a fake cover flap you can cut out and attach to a newsstand copy of The Weekly Standard.
A new magazine with lots of useful tips and advice for priapic adolescents.
In recent months, the celebrity weeklies have been all pregnancy, all the time. So on some level this makes sense.
A well-placed source inside the Times sent me a screenshot of an in-house mockup of Gawker redesigned to conform to the look, feel, and editorial tone of the Times Company’s flagship website.
I have four spoof magazine covers in the December issue of Vanity Fair. Here’s an outtake.
I had no idea how bad things had gotten for Judith Miller until I saw the Ethicist column in this past Sunday’s Times Magazine. When is the Times finally going to rein in this crazy woman?
“She dazzled her professors at Stanford. Her company is storming the NASDAQ. She’s already worth $23 million. She’s also a 36D.”
Radar‘s September/October issue was art directed by George Lois, the advertising genius who created dozens of classic Esquire covers between 1962 and 1972. Here’s another recycled Lois cover.
At a joint press conference yesterday at 666 Broadway, Apple C.E.O. Steve Jobs and Harper’s editor Lewis H. Lapham announced a historic collaboration between their two companies: the iPod Harper’s Special Edition.
In their quest for newsstand “pop,” many magazines design their covers in such a way that the logotype is almost an afterthought. This April 2005 cover of Parents magazine demonstrates the perils of this design technique.
Pea-brained thespian Sylvester Stallone has a new magazine out. Who would’ve guessed they’d go with such an allusive design?
Because sometimes I play around with Quark when I’m bored.
A re-decontextualization of Bonnie Fuller’s Star magazine.
I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More info is on the About page.
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