August & September & October

Back in July I went to Vegas for a week to visit family and friends, so my colleague Kate Madden down in Portland art directed the photos for Matt Halverson’s “Turnover”, shot by Stuart Mullenberg. Kate was also going to handle the page design, but her duties as Aspen Sojourner art director got in the way.

For the opening spread, I decided to run two photos, which I rotated and cropped to suggest motion:

And for the following spread, I ran the art upside-down, to suggest some kind of chaos:

Here’s October’s cover:

I had fun doing this Mudroom illustration:

I put this 2-page feature together really quickly. Johnny Ryan did the illustrations in one day:

José Mandojana photographed this opening spread:

For the following spread, I ran a profile shot of the actor who portrays Grant Cogswell in the movie Grassroots. Notice their matching tattoo:

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