Happy Autumn all! The change in seasons has made me reflective, inspiring me to take a little look back at some of my favourite magazine covers I've been lucky enough to design over the years – featuring Time Out, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and more, with a peek behind the scenes into the process of each ✂️
The Guardian — Autumn Book Review
Starting off the round-up with a suitably autumnal cover for The Guardian's Book Review, featuring an array of handcut paper leaves for their Autumn Reading feature.
Art Direction — Bruno Haward
San Francisco Magazine
A serene layered cityscape for San Francisco Magazine, which brings together some of the iconic towers from the different Bay Area districts.
Art Direction — Taylor Le
Vanity Fair — Space Watch Report
A range of space-themed sets, created for an issue of the Vanity Fair Watch Report celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon.
Art Direction — Scott Moore
Photography — Studio Torsne
The Observer Magazine — Cast Away
A stormy cover for The Observer Magazine, to accompany their feature article by Susan Smillie about her year-long voyage alone at sea, inspired by Japanese woodblock prints.
Art Direction — Joanna Cochrane
Animation — Simon Roberts
Variety — Variety500
A typographic cover illustration created for Variety500, an initiative by Variety Magazine which indexes and celebrates the 500 global leaders in the entertainment industry.
Art Direction — Chris Mihal
Time Out LA — Grand Canyons
And to finish off, one of my all-time favourites, featured in Time Out's 50 Years, 50 Covers exhibition – 'Grand Canyons' for Time Out LA, celebrating the unique neighbourhoods that sit amongst the rolling hills of the LA canyon region.
Art Direction — Tom Hislop
