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Design Category
Editorial design, 2006
Design firm
McSweeney’s Publishing (San Francisco, California)
Collection
(2007) AIGA 365: 28
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The cover of The Believer’s 2006 Visual Issue depicts, among anonymous gallery goers, a woman wearing one of Rosemarie Trockel’s knit caps, a masked child from a Ralph Eugene Meatyard photograph, and Matthew Barney dressed in his (furry, pink) “Entered Apprentice” costume from Cremaster 3. According to Charles Burns (our cover illustrator), Vito Acconci is also depicted, but he’s hidden under the gallery floor, reenacting his famous Seed Bed performance. In play as both gallery display and the magazine’s bonus feature is a detachable stack of postcards by Kehinde Wiley.
“Curated literature feels right at home like a lapdog.”
“A journal like no other.”
“ I was completely seduced by the juxtaposition of homespun and modern.”