January 4, 2007
Draft magazine
Issue four of Draft magazine has been out a while now, but is worth seeing for it’s cover featuring a lenticular by Julian Opie. I’ve always liked Opie’s work, both his personal and commercial (Blur covers) artworks have a simplicity and strength that others working with the same kind of line-art lack. The Draft cover is typical of how he can adapt his seemingly simple style to work using different technologies.
Lenticulars are often just a gimmick and have been used poorly on many magazines; cover models have winked at the reader, and coverlines disappeared etc. But this cover strips the lenticular down to it’s simplest form, with a couple of black and white line images flicking back and forth to create the slightest movement of the body – something that can’t be reproduced well here.
The two images shown above are the front and back of the issue, and the magazine website has a rollover that changes between these two images. You need to see a copy of the magazine to see Opie’s cover at it’s best.
More about Draft here. (thanks Andrew)
5 Comments
Comment on January 5, 2007 by Daniel says:
I’ve been playing with this mag in Borders for the last couple of weeks – at last a good lenticular cover! Can you think of any others?
Comment on January 7, 2007 by jeremy says:
I can’t think of any other interesting examples – can anyone else?
Comment on January 27, 2007 by Marc GUBBINI says:
Very Beautiful cover
Does anyone know wherer I could get the magazine
Comment on February 1, 2007 by jeremy says:
Marc – you can buy copies on the Draft website, listed in post
Comment on April 12, 2007 by Andrew says:
Re: good lenticular covers, Total Film did a great Clark Kent/Superman one a few months back. Add!ict did an odd, almost 3D one of an archaeological site that’s strange and almost works, too.
