While my Multiplatform Design & Storytelling class at Columbia does not meet till Spring Semester, I am already working on changes for the syllabus, and collecting new examples to share with the students.
This cover from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine has been added to my collection.
What is so interesting here/
This cover reflects “playful” in two seconds. The way the photograph has been cropped and displayed, the way the tennis ball crosses the magazine’s logo, and, ultimately, how type has motion, which, for an edition of the magazine devoted to the US Tennis Open, adds perspective and visual context.
For more:
How regional newspapers covered Harvey
Thanks to Charles Apple for compiling these front pages from around the region on the ongoing effects of Tropical Storm Harvey.
