Imagine That

April 22, 2009 at 09:06
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Here’s another great cover from a recent issue of The Economist; this one utilized Obama’s G20 speech on nuclear weapons and did an incredible job with the layout. Imagination: powerful both for the concept and the content at hand. This led me to gather some other interesting covers of The Economist, featured below, as they have often done a good job of capturing timely issues in a very illustrative manner.

Furthermore, I found the Magazine Publishers of America Top 40 covers of the last 40 years with some stunning covers, one which helped put another recent The Economist cover into context. It was The Economist’s take on Saul Steinberg’s 1976 classic New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue, which ‘represent[s] Manhattan’s telescoped perception of the country beyond the Hudson River. The cartoon showed the supposed limited mental geography of Manhattanites’.

The Economist’s version, portraying what could be the Chinese’s limited view of the World:

Another amazing cover on the Top 40 list is this post-9/11 New Yorker cover, which

‘repositioned Art Spiegelmans silhouettes, inspired by Ad Reinhardt’s black-on-black paintings, so that the north tower’s antenna breaks the “W” of the magazine’s logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared the on 9/11. The silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four color printing inks. An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.

Finally, here is a limited selection of some of the past year’s great The Economist covers:

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