Category Archives: Behind the Scenes

“Keep the photography simple, and work the print.”

October 1, 2009 – 5:04 pm

… … The fall edition of Esquire‘s Big Black Book, a men’s style guide with a luxury bent, comes out this month, and John Midgley sent me the tearsheets for a story he shot with Esquire fashion director Nick Sullivan. Called “The Revisionists,” it’s about four designers who have attempted to reinvent the suit for [...]

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Some of our readers’ workspaces

September 30, 2009 – 8:56 am

… Last week, I wrote about the workspaces of the creative and solitary (is that redundant? Creative and solitary?), and I invited readers to submit photos of their own design/photo/art headquarters. Here are a couple, for your voyeuristic viewing pleasure. (I’m happy to keep posting these images, by the way. You’ll find me at [email protected].) [...]

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Kwaku Alston photographs the Jacksons

September 28, 2009 – 7:43 am

…. Entertainment Tonight has posted a report on the Jacksons’ upcoming A&E reality series, along with footage of Kwaku Alston’s shoot the week before last with the Jackson brothers. Click here to watch. … … ….

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Greenfield-Sanders on Jim Carroll

September 16, 2009 – 9:13 am

… In the summer of 1997, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders made this portrait of downtown poet and musician Jim Carroll, who died last Friday at the age of 60. Timothy was in the midst of making Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart for American Masters at the time, and he and Jim discussed rock and Reed that [...]

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Behind the scenes of a Collezioni magazine fashion shoot

September 14, 2009 – 12:00 pm

…   … Rolph Gobits just photographed a multi-page fashion spread for the November issue of the Italian magazine Collezioni (specifically the Russian edition), and he sent us these pictures from the shoot. The theme of story is the 1940s glamour—which seems to never go out of style, nor should it—and Rolph, his crew, the [...]

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Ogilvy creative director on the making of IBM’s “A Smarter Planet” campaign

August 31, 2009 – 8:09 am

… IBM recently launched a campaign called “A Smarter Planet,” centering on the idea that the systems that run the way we live are increasingly becoming interconnected and “intelligent.” For the creative team at Ogilvy & Mather, the agency of record, the challenge in executing the campaign was coming up with imagery that would vividly [...]

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Behind the scenes of the Men’s Health redesign

August 25, 2009 – 11:36 am

… Design director Brandon Kavulla is overseeing a redesign of Men’s Health, and he’s offering a behind-the-scenes look at the process over at Grids, the official blog of the Society of Publication Designers. The goal of the redesign, Kavulla explains, is “to simplify things and focus on great imagery and simple but expressive typography.” Conceptual [...]

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The story behind Starbucks’ latest campaign

August 19, 2009 – 8:37 am

… … Starbucks, which has been trying to get back to its core business after seeing sales flag over the past year and a half, recently launched a print and outdoor-media campaign that stars…a burlap bag. The chain’s aim was to emphasize their coffee beans, which come in large brown cloth sacks, and while that [...]

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“The Cove” photographer’s deep blue secrets

August 17, 2009 – 8:46 am

… … With so many photographers adding film and video to their repertoire, it’s worth taking note of those who have managed to do big things with this new-to-them medium. The Cove, for example, is a documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan and the environmental consequences of same that has swept up a [...]

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Not your typical redesign: behind the scenes of Doug Menuez’s new website

July 30, 2009 – 8:54 am

…. ….       ….. Doug Menuez wanted to redesign his website so that busy art buyers could use it with ease. But with thousands of images and three decades of work in fine art, photojournalism, and advertising, he first had to ask himself a very important question: “How the f*ck do I represent [...]

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