Robert Newman: Many of The Stranger's Covers are 'Ready for Framing'

august 18, 2008  11:18 am
Robert Newman: Many of The Stranger's Covers are 'Ready for Framing'
That's the veteran designer's take after browsing the Seattle alt-weekly's online cover archive. "The Stranger covers are like the cool punk version of The New Yorker, with illustrations, photographs and graphic design that are stand-alone visual statements, with lots of attitude and passion," Newman writes on the Society for Publication Design's blog. "Like The New Yorker, The Stranger covers are the visual voice of the publication, a dialogue each week between the paper and its readers."