It features the work of artist Dario Calmese-the very first black photographer to shoot a cover in the magazine’s 107-year history. Vanity Fair‘s July/August cover featuring Viola Davis is my favorite of the year so far. Robert Newman, Creative Director, This Old House This is a cover for the ages, museum-worthy, but also T-shirt and poster-worthy as well. The first time I read through the annotated cover online I was brought to tears, and the cover also inspired me to take my teenage daughter to the Juneteenth Jubilee march in Harlem a few days after it came out. I can’t look at this cover without getting emotional. Nelson has done a series of distinctive covers for The New Yorker, but this one features a much rawer and immediate style, very passionate, but also very intimate and respectful in the portraits of those killed by the police. This is more than just a cover it’s a learning tool and a call to action, as well as a beautiful tribute. Inspired by the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, and published just before the Juneteenth celebration, this cover combines art, history, political activism and much more, as Nelson uses the killings of George Floyd, Breona Taylor and other black men and women to connect the historical dots to lynchings, the murder of Emmett Till, slavery, the police beating of Rodney King, as well as to the Black Power and civil rights movements. The New Yorker‘s June 22 cover, with its powerful “Say Their Names” painting by Kadir Nelson, stands out for me as the most memorable cover of the first six months. As usual, these covers tell the story of 2020 through their arresting visual design and subtext.Ĭlick any of the covers below to view them full-size. We reached out to our community of magazine creatives and asked to share their favorite cover of the year. So instead of dwelling on the pain this industry, as well as this country is facing, we want to focus on some of the best cover design work of the year so far. What can you say about this year that hasn’t already been said? Not much.
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