Guy Billout's parallel universe
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Guy Billout writes captions and columns and illustrates articles for The Atlantic Monthly. His illustrations use events which challenge physics such as rivers flowing uphill and gravity-defying structures. Human beings are helpless in the face of natural forces. He draws as if in a dream, then lets people interpret the mysteries depicted. He illustrates the French daily Le Monde occasionally, as well as the New Republic, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times, among others.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1998
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Alexander Liberman: on overcoming aesthetics
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Conde Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman, in aiming to produce readable magazines, directed his artists not to read the text until the pages were laid out. He could put a page together in three minutes, expecting others to tape them exactly as placed. The illustrations made the magazines readable because readers could instantly identify with the graphics. He found the creative process to be engendered by destructions - moving from one editorial job to another.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1998
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Helene Gordon-Lazareff: the tsarina who was ELLE
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Helene Gordon-Lazareff, creator of ELLE magazine, was born in 1909 in Russia. In 1917, she fled from the Bolshevik revolution. She studied ethnography at the Sorbonne, was a journalist at the New York Times, and started ELLE in 1945. The magazine at one time attained a weekly circulation of one million.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1999
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