Form and Content 3

This is an illustration for an article about the money management of humanitarian foundations in the world for the New York Times.  The designer's name is Lorenzo Petrantoni. He wanted to bring back the style of old book illustrations, and to tell the story from beginning to end with one graphic.

I think that he explored a great deal of texture and pattern in this image. The composition is very strong as it leads your eye around the image.  The varying thickness of the text in vertical and horizontal lines is interesting to read.  The strong bolds draw you in first and then lead you to read the smaller text around it. The text also forms wrap around style around the graphics in the image.  I believe there is also a use of some kind of Dingbats around the edges of the words to make it look more like art than text. The black and white colors are very bold. However, there's a ragged edge to the letterforms that make them look worn and more like a newsprint graphic than a book graphic.  I also think that the rag edges of the image make it overall more appealing than if it had aligned edges.  I think that this is a very cool piece, almost like a page from an iSpy book.