WIRED MAGAZINE: Sex in the Digital Age, 3

Credits & Description:

Nomination: Magazine & Newspaper Design
Category: Magazine Front Covers
Award: Graphite Pencil
Agency: Wired
Client: Wired
Design Director: Caleb Bennett
Executive Creative Director: Billy Sorrentino
Senior Photo Editor: Anna Goldwater Alexander
Publishing Company: Wired
WIRED’s first-ever sex issue celebrated physical intimacy and technological connection. We sought out ways to delight our readers, starting with the cover: a neon-bright field of color surrounding a small text message bubble with two suggestive emoji, and another showing the three dots that appear as someone types a reply. The dots were printed in silver ink so that as the magazine bends and moves they appear to animate. Sex may be a familiar subject, but our approach was fresh and surprising.