tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post5857596949255556906..comments2024-03-28T09:25:25.716-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Vogue Italia's Illustrated IssueJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-64635390309314006562020-01-15T13:28:21.089-05:002020-01-15T13:28:21.089-05:00Thank you, James Gurney, for sharing this blog pos...Thank you, James Gurney, for sharing this blog post. Congrats to Vogue Italia! I see value in this on many levels. Raising money for a good cause, fabulous. Minimizing waste, very important. More work for illustrators, wonderful. Softening the edges of expectation through the use of interpretive illustration, speaks volumes. Fashion is big business. But it is also an art form. It can be fun as well as serious. I hope the trend of including illustration grows and it is not just a one-off marketing experiment. A combination of illustration and photography would be a perfect end result. Thanks again for sharing.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06749951258555866256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-11945517503455755182020-01-14T12:25:32.829-05:002020-01-14T12:25:32.829-05:00I'll have to be cynical too, and guess that th...I'll have to be cynical too, and guess that the environmental benefit is a drop in the ocean of industrial consumption; but I appreciate the focus on illustrators.Warren JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743987856127631574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-77544747874294489672020-01-14T09:38:49.162-05:002020-01-14T09:38:49.162-05:00Good points, Arturo. Whether there's any real ...Good points, Arturo. Whether there's any real environmental benefit to this decision, or whatever their motivation in doing it, a side benefit is that they're hiring more art. They say having art on the cover is a first for Vogue Italia: perhaps so, but it's not a first for Vogue itself, as a quick search of 1930s-era covers will attest: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vogue+magazine+covers+1930s&t=h_&ia=images&iax=imagesJames Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-69891384110681968342020-01-14T08:41:37.550-05:002020-01-14T08:41:37.550-05:00Having a degree in chemistry and being an industri...Having a degree in chemistry and being an industrial chemist for over 40 years, I merely ask that folks consider the Laws of Thermodynamics before making rules and lofty pronouncements that defy nature. Aside from using more water as a solvent, I've not met an engineer, physicist or chemist that can show me what the "green" movement has changed. I was part of the "green" revolution in agriculture whereby crop yields were doubled and tripled 50 years ago, but those techniques are now savaged as being unnatural and anything but "green". I am all for artists getting more of the work, but using common sense it would seem to me that the biggest energy user for a printed magazine is not in the set up, but in the production and distribution. Maybe this is just a marketing ploy... most green labeling is these days...arturoquimicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15134447451950577224noreply@blogger.com