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Artblip: Why I love this week’s Newsweek cover

posted by Heather Kearns
Sunday, January 11, 2009
posted in: Alice C. Sabatini Gallery | Artblog - Life in the 700s
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Did anyone catch the recent Newsweek cover? The magazine features Italian artist, Lorenzo Petrantoni, and his trademark collage technique that integrates typefaces and illustrations in the style of early 19th-century signage and advertising combined with modern symbols, icons and what appears to be that decorative scrolly stuff straight out of Microsoft's Wingdings.

President-elect Barack Obama is front and center, arms crossed, exuding confidence, with the words, "The New...

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