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Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator
Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working professionally some years back, preferring instead to draw from the live model to keep his formidable drawing skills sharp. Selfishly, I never agreed with that. I wanted more and more from him. I wanted to keep running into his work on paperback covers or Boy’s Life, like I had as a kid. Sandy hit his stride through the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Color Trends
September 5, 2024 - If you thought I was going to let the summer go by without mentioning brat green — you're wrong. From the day the new Charlie XCX album, brat, was released — long before it became a political meme — friends have been joking that it's MY SUMMER. And while I prefer a slightly more yellow green—a true chartreuse—as my favorite shade of green, even I have to admit, this is pretty close. And while the album cover looks like it was designed in 30 seconds, designers know better. There have been more than a few interviews with the design firm Special Offer Inc that handled the design, and hundreds of colors were narrowed down to get to this one. The New York Times and Architectural Digest articles about "brat green" are worth a read for…
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