{"id":85,"date":"2008-10-20T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-06-13T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:26:33","slug":"no-second-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"No Second Chances?"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say there are no second chances, but recently I found that statement to be not entirely true. I’ve designed and executed art for many covers of TIME magazine<\/a>. I was never entirely pleased with the cover I did for TIME’s “Cocaine Wars” story. I had originally wanted to focus the design around a skull image, and to have the letters in “Cocaine Wars” have snowcaps on them like the letters you’d see on ice machines. But the powers-that-be at time had me eliminate the skull (too menacing) and in it’s place illustrate a small mound of “cocaine”. The result as you can see was a still a fairly good cover but with a focal point that was kind of anti-climactic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Fast forward to present day: Rick Klotz<\/a> of FreshJive<\/a>\u2014an LA streetwear manufacturer, who also runs his flagship store Reserve<\/a> in the heart of the Fairfax district\u2014contacted me to see if they could license some of my older designs for silkscreened T-Shirts. He immediately gravitated to some of my TIME covers\u2014including “Cocaine Wars” among others among others. Since I would have to reconfigure the art for silkscreen anyway I immediately saw this as an opportunity to make good on that design that I never felt right about. Freshjive will be distributing that T-Shirt design among others of mine in two different color schemes for their Summer ’09 line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say there are no second chances, but recently I found that statement to be not entirely true. I’ve designed and executed art for many covers of TIME magazine. I was never entirely pleased with the cover I did for TIME’s “Cocaine Wars” story. I had originally wanted to focus the design around a skull image, and to have the letters in “Cocaine Wars” have snowcaps on them like the letters you’d see on ice machines. But the powers-that-be at time had me eliminate the skull (too menacing) and in it’s place illustrate a small mound of “cocaine”. The result as you can see was a still a fairly good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-notes","category-waybackmachine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}