Erin Wasson’s apartment in Greenwich Village.

Poul Jensen for Selig Z chair

Anyhow, mostly because I was the only one in the class with a working knowledge of Quark, and because taking on this task meant opting out of a trite assignment in which you had to recreate a three-page spread in some movie rag, I designed this year’s book. The snapshot theme could have been worse, but I think the sculptures by Duane Hanson kept it from falling into a fiery pit of horrible cliches and doom. Plus, never hurts to pay homage to one of my favourite artists by employing his tongue-in-cheek statements about North American culture and the thrill-seeking, trainwreck-gawking kind of journalism that has become so profitable. I hope his estate doesn’t sue me for using it without permission. Here are the results.

The cover:

The editors’ letter and masthead:

Table of contents:

A sample page:

I forgot to grab an image of the back cover. I’ll do that tonight.