Thursday, November 19, 2009

Judging by Covers


We are out of the office again for a couple of days - this time to sit with the designers (fantabulous Granite Studios) and block and proof the Winter NQ. The cover is crucial, of course, and we've been leaning away from placing text there and going with a full page, sumptuous image (Michele Stamp's Irises, Clare Rice's frontispiece, and wait 'til you see what we're playing with for the new issue). Cover art is in a constant style-shift, but you may argue that it reached its zenith in a now defunct art form - the record album cover. Here are Rolling Stone's Top 100 picks - and here's song from #16New Order's, Power, Corruption and Lies, featured above.

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