2wice “Animal” issue
Pentagram, New York, New York, 2003
Description
The “Animal” issue of 2wice presented an opportunity to look at the prevalence of animal imagery in dance, fashion, and photography. I wanted the overall impression of the design and the editorial mix to feel like an Aesop’s fable, something that is childlike but not strictly for children. Hence, the simple, storybook approach to typography, which is plain but elegant. Likewise, the photography is all very direct and simple, ranging from the overtly cute (portraits of animal babies) to the profoundly creepy (taxidermic tableaux). The performers we featured had a similar range: the dialogue between civility and savagery in the Paul Taylor Company performance of Cloven Kingdom versus the literal animalism of the David Parsons dancers. The simplicity of the design allowed us to connect more forcefully a broad range of material into a coherent ensemble, making a virtue of our complex mission to mix performance, photography and design.
Juror Notes
Exhaustive multiplication of an idea. Consistently well designed.
“I’m curious to know how they go about these. Do they find the images first and go from there or vice versa? So well done." Susanna Dulkinys
“What’s not to love about it?” Brian Noyes
Credits
- Design firm
- Pentagram
- Creative director
- Abbott Miller
- Art director
- Abbott Miller
- Designers
- Abbott Miller, Jeremy Hoffman
- Photographers
- Richard Barnes, Dwight Eschliman, Alan MacWeeney, Michael O'Neill, Jean Pigozzi, Martin Schoeller, Christian Witkin
- Editors
- Abbott Miller, Patsy Tarr
- Writers
- Nancy Dalva, Laura Jacobs, Randi Mates
- Producer
- 2wice Arts Foundation
- Project managers
- Jess Mackta, Jane Rosch
- Printer
- Peake Printers, Inc.
- Printing method
- 4-color offset lithography
- Binder
- Peake Printers, Inc.
- Binding method
- Perfect bound
- Papers
- Scheufelen Consort Royal Silk 100 lb. text, 120 lb. cover
- Typeface
- Monotype Walbaum
- Client
- 2wice Arts Foundation