{"id":3527,"date":"2008-09-21T02:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/21\/design-as-virus-5\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:59:45","slug":"design-as-virus-5-gideon-glaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/21\/design-as-virus-5-gideon-glaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Design as virus 5: Gideon Glaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/media\/48342\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"new_york.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/new_york.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>New York magazine, April 8, 1968. Design by Milton Glaser. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part of an occasional series.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably only coincidence that the sleeve of the second High Llamas album resembles the cover of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/media\/48342\/\" target=\"_blank\">first (?) issue of <em>New York<\/em> magazine<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighllamas.com\/releases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">many of the other High Llamas albums<\/a> feature design elements borrowed from the Sixties and Seventies and the music on this one owes much to American music of the period, notably <em>Pet Sounds<\/em>-era Beach Boys.<\/p>\n<p><em>New York<\/em> magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/media\/adam-moss-milton-glaser-discuss-40-years-i-new-york-i-s-art-direction\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated its fortieth anniversary<\/a> this year. I tried my hand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/28\/high-priorities\/\">a couple of years ago<\/a> at designing the magazine&#8217;s <em>High Priority<\/em> graphic for an online competition. I didn&#8217;t win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/04\/high-priorities-2\/\">but I did make the runners-up list<\/a> (along with 120 others).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gideon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gideon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Gideon Gaye by The High Llamas (1994). Art by Kevin Hopper, design by Andr\u00e9 &amp; Brown, Tony Lyons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/07\/design-as-virus-4-metamorphoses\/\">Design as virus 4: Metamorphoses<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/24\/design-as-virus-3-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/\">Design as virus 3: the sincerest form of flattery<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/22\/design-as-virus-2-album-covers\/\">Design as virus 2: album covers<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/19\/design-as-virus-victorian-borders\/\">Design as virus 1: Victorian borders<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/04\/high-priorities-2\/\">High Priorities 2<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/28\/high-priorities\/\">High Priorities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York magazine, April 8, 1968. Design by Milton Glaser. Part of an occasional series. It&#8217;s probably only coincidence that the sleeve of the second High Llamas album resembles the cover of the first (?) issue of New York magazine. But many of the other High Llamas albums feature design elements borrowed from the Sixties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/21\/design-as-virus-5-gideon-glaser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Design as virus 5: Gideon Glaser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,43,3,10,23],"tags":[6204],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-magazines","category-music","category-typography","category-work","tag-the-high-llamas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-UT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}