Computer Arts

spring 2017 COVER ARTIST

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Making

the cover

PORTFOLIOS 2015

bagged with

a free copy of

shillington’s

advice-packed

newspaper issue

238 featured an

icon-led design by

New York-based

Gavin potenza.

PORTFOLIOS 2017

add some sparkle

to your life (and

your bookshelf)

with this month’s

glittering cover

featuring a blind

emboss silver

foil and double

pantone action.

This issue Computer Arts’ new art editor Mark

Wynne was tasked with creating a cover representing

portfolios. But how to show something as individual

and personal to each of our readers as a portfolio?

Mark decided upon a neutral typographic

treatment based on a beautifully functional font

from Shutterstock (by Rodin Anton) which features a

gentle bas-relief reinforcing the headline ‘stand out.’

A Pantone silver (with a double-hit fluoro as an

accent colour) enhanced the slick shiny conceit

of the bas-relief and the generous areas of negative

space inside and between the letterforms were used

to add some choice pieces of advice in glittering foil.

A last minute flash of boldness from editor Nick

who suggested turning the image off in favour of a

blind emboss from our friends at Celloglas made

the visual conceit real with all the added excitement

subtlety (and risk) of such a physical treatment.

Watch the foil and emboss being applied at Celloglas in

our making-of video – plus all our other special covers

being finished – at http://www.bit.ly/ca-printfinishes

PORTFOLIOS 2016

With a quirky cover

by london-based

illustrator michael

Driver issue 251

challenged time-

strapped readers

to put a killer folio

together quickly

and effectively.

mark wynne

mark wrestled with new management tools

(hello live binder!) while plotting to embezzle

extra funds to purchase extra thick cover stock

for his debut cover. Wait... it’s already printed?