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Design Category
Book design, 2003
Design firm
Penguin Group (New York, New York)
Collection
(2004) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2003
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The book is a collection of the author’s work as media correspondent for the New Yorker. The brief was: “It’s a big book, Jon, please don’t mess it up.”
I liked the idea of creating an icon from newsprint and after several failed attempts at folding the Lady Liberty (she looked more like Hitler in a spiked wig) I hit upon the eagle idea.
After weeks of further painful finger-breaking research into the dark arts of origami, I realized that the camera always lies. The model is constructed from about 12 different bits of paper bodged together with adhesive tape.
“Innovative use of illustration to create a multilayered visual experience. Both fresh and historically referential.” Archie Ferguson
“I feel this successfully conveys the content. Eye-catching and intelligent.” Isabel Warren-Lynch