I can’t exactly remember when I was called to do this job, but it came by way of recommendation by Bronwyn Keenan (who has since become a great friend and client at The Guggenheim) and Jacqui Mellar.
Luis Barajas, publisher and editor at FLAUNT, wanted to start a program that would have guest creatives design the covers.
The Nobody Creative Studio 3000 sq ft studio loft was very quiet in those day still reeling from post 9/11 inactivity. I was having a hard time finding inspiration and I stumbled across a book about stock and bond certificate design at St. Marks Bookshop. I can’t remember the name of that book (If anyone knows this book, please reply, I’d like to add it to my design book collection). At the time I was fascinated with the intricate details of currency. The the stock market took a kamikaze nose dive. I was broke, waiting for a client to pay. I just bribed the gas and electric guy to come back in 4 days with my last $13.46. Some members of a Chinatown “syndicate” were threatening to break my legs, and I couldn’t stop daydreaming about being able to barter the lint and tobacco shavings in my pocket for that $3.50 Chinatown lunch buffet take out plate.
Famished and dizzy, my mind escaped into a flight of fantasy and things fell into place.
The cover was set up in 4C, with spot varnishes, embossing and debossing. I even embossed my then designer name, “nobody”, that carried on from the Rawkus days, in braille right in the middle of the cover.
FLAUNT Magazine Snoop Dogg Cover August 2002
FLAUNT SNOOP DOGG COVER AUGUST 2002
I can’t exactly remember when I was called to do this job, but it came by way of recommendation by Bronwyn Keenan (who has since become a great friend and client at The Guggenheim) and Jacqui Mellar.
Luis Barajas, publisher and editor at FLAUNT, wanted to start a program that would have guest creatives design the covers.
I was picked to do the first one.
It was still during the Nobody Creative years and it was sometime in 2002 before I headed to Miami to start The Creek South Beach Hotel project.
The Nobody Creative Studio 3000 sq ft studio loft was very quiet in those day still reeling from post 9/11 inactivity. I was having a hard time finding inspiration and I stumbled across a book about stock and bond certificate design at St. Marks Bookshop. I can’t remember the name of that book (If anyone knows this book, please reply, I’d like to add it to my design book collection). At the time I was fascinated with the intricate details of currency. The the stock market took a kamikaze nose dive. I was broke, waiting for a client to pay. I just bribed the gas and electric guy to come back in 4 days with my last $13.46. Some members of a Chinatown “syndicate” were threatening to break my legs, and I couldn’t stop daydreaming about being able to barter the lint and tobacco shavings in my pocket for that $3.50 Chinatown lunch buffet take out plate.
Famished and dizzy, my mind escaped into a flight of fantasy and things fell into place.
The cover was set up in 4C, with spot varnishes, embossing and debossing. I even embossed my then designer name, “nobody”, that carried on from the Rawkus days, in braille right in the middle of the cover.
I wonder if FLAUNT has gotten to my invoice yet?
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