{"id":190,"date":"2008-12-11T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-06-13T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T18:19:42","slug":"america-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"America Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/America_Swings.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1973\" title=\"America_Swings\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/America_Swings-600x469.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/America_Swings-600x469.gif 600w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/America_Swings.gif 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/6\/764\/2ab\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Baker<\/a>, Art Director\/Designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taschen Publishing<\/a>, needed a cover design for a book by New York photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiharris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Harris<\/a>. The book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen.com\/pages\/en\/catalogue\/sex\/all\/06301\/facts.naomi_harris_america_swings_art_edition_viking.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>America Swings<\/em><\/a>. The subject: a photographic odyssey spanning the 50 States chronicling the swinging sex lives of everyday Americans. My challenge was to come up with a cover design that would encapsulate the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic66.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Route 66<\/a>&#8221; flavor of Ms. Harris&#8217; travels and communicate the uninhibited\/explicit nature of the subject without spelling it out on the cover.\u00a0 For the cover\u2019s swingin&#8217; blonde figure I got a little help from my wife, illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/LauraSmithArt.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Smith<\/a>. I then created one of the more complex graphics of my career\u2014this time working almost exclusively in Photoshop\u2014as opposed to Illustrator which is my usual application of choice. I also created a detailed map of Naomi&#8217;s travels across America for the book&#8217;s endpapers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/AmericaSwingerland.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1974\" title=\"AmericaSwingerland\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/AmericaSwingerland-600x235.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/AmericaSwingerland-600x235.gif 600w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/AmericaSwingerland.gif 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Baker, Art Director\/Designer at Taschen Publishing, needed a cover design for a book by New York photographer Naomi Harris. The book: America Swings. The subject: a photographic odyssey spanning the 50 States chronicling the swinging sex lives of everyday Americans. My challenge was to come up with a cover design that would encapsulate the &#8220;Route 66&#8221; flavor of Ms. Harris&#8217; travels and communicate the uninhibited\/explicit nature of the subject without spelling it out on the cover.\u00a0 For the cover\u2019s swingin&#8217; blonde figure I got a little help from my wife, illustrator Laura Smith. I then created one of the more complex graphics of my career\u2014this time working almost exclusively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}