Biz Bash
Done in: Winter 2019 / Customer: Lane Press:Pages Magazine / Task: Cover Design
What the client needed
Daavid Adler’s story is the story of a self-professed “magazine junkie.” His story talks about the move many publishers have gone through — the move from multiple print magazines to digital only — then what influenced his move back to print in connection with a new initiative for event organizers and promoters. The original ask for the piece was for lots of pictures of David speaking, influencing, etc. Unfortunately what was supplied didn’t make the editor’s cut and with a looming deadline we needed to move the story to a later issue and get a serious photoshoot done or take the photos we had and make them into a useful solution.
My part of the project
The supplied photos weren’t bad, but since the commitment of Pages was to push in the direction of the unique and excellent in everything the decision was to not use them. However, as I looked at what we had, I noticed that Mr. Adler has a very engaging face. Decided to take a chance and I pitched and received approval for was a series of caricatures. Because of the approaching deadline, I basically got around doing full length caricatures by just repeating the body shape and worked different heads