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Design Category
Illustration, 2002
Design firm
Entertainment Weekly magazine (New York, New York)
Collection
(2003) AIGA 365: 24

Description

Entertainment Weekly ends every year with our annual “Best and Worst” issue, which catalogues the year’s entertainment highs and lows. Since this list is an annual occurrence, the challenge is to commission art each year that articulates the “best and worst” concept in a way that feels new. Brian Cronin’s clever, subtle illustration for the list’s opening spread depicts the “polished” and the “unpolished.”

Credits
Creative director: Geraldine Hessler
Art director: John Walker
Designer: John Walker
Illustrator: Brian Cronin
Client: Entertainment Weekly magazine