Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Illustrator Tributes: Brodner and Juhasz's Odd Couples


Great illustrators think alike (or maybe it was the editor's idea.) Anyhow these came out at the same time. Steve Brodner's Odd Couple tribute on the cover on National Journal and Victor Juhasz Odd Couple tribute in Rolling Stone.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Beat-Up Romney (and Obama) Covers


New York Magazine and a Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover comp that didn't actually run.

Kinky 'Merger' Covers


One of my doppelganger sources tipped me off that the kinky Bloomberg BusinessWeek merger cover had it's predecessor. The Economist did a 'sexy' merger cover in 1994. 'Get yo freak on.' Thanks to Jamey Fry for the spot.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Men's Journal vs. Rolling Stone Russia


Men's Journal from December, 2011 and Russian Rolling Stone from January, 2012. Both publications are published by Wenner Media. Thanks to Benjamen Purvis.

Seattle Space Needle Covers


Current covers for Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met magazine. (Note: this is one of four different covers that Seattle Met ran that month commemorating the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair.)

Thanks to Michael Wichita/John Keatley.

GQ Australia & Wired Doppelganger


The top spread is from the February 2012 issue of GQ Australia while the bottom is a spread from the July 2011 issue of U.S. edition of Wired. Thanks to Leo Jung.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Hot Rock Chick Doppelganger


On the left, Revolver's cover from 2005. On the right, Rolling Stone Italy from August 2006. Thanks to Laura Behnert. (and Andre Mora)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Time's Intentional Romney Doppelganger


Clever cover followup from Time. More on Time's new Romney cover at Folio.

Movie Poster Design Cliches






This is only a sample of all the movie poster design cliches over at: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/64047251.html

Great stuff!