You may have noticed some differences in our recent covers — particularly the giant lips on last week’s “Lust List” issue. This is not your imagination. Our creative services department, based in Atlanta, has been working closely with the editorial departments of each of our papers — Atlanta, Tampa, Sarasota and Charlotte — on ways to make the print editions of Creative Loafing more visually fun and interesting.
We’re proud of what creative director Markus Schneider and his team have come up with — a sort of less-is-more, bigger-is-better approach. Without some of the restrictive formatting of past issues, our senior designers, John Yardley and Jason Hatcher, are now freer than ever to come up with just the right imagery for each individual cover story. You’ll still recognize us as Creative Loafing, but you’ll be seeing bolder images and more colors, action and attitude.
Take this week’s cover story by Jared Neumark. Photographer Angus Lamond’s simple but powerful cover shot of wrestler George South is a nice complement to Jared’s colorful tale of this man’s desperate fight to keep Charlotte’s rasslin history alive and moving forward. Is South a dreamer — or is he in serious denial? Check out the story, and judge for yourself.
Coming next week, we’re bringing John Sugg back, and you’ll be getting more than just a quarter-page of him. In his “Fishwrapper” series, Sugg will be talking with Southern notables of all stripes, from politicians on both the left and right to executives, thinkers and even former US presidents. If they’re Southern and interesting, Sugg will bring them to us.
This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2006.
