Blown Covers

In New York there are moments when every city block feels like a runway. Our Blown Covers offices are in SoHo, and every day we have to weave our way through the 7 foot tall model creatures that walk the streets. Think ahead to the changing seasons (The New Yorker runs a style issue in the early fall) and pull out your sketchbook. Show us what you think of the Fashion world — will it be an homage or a jibe or something in between? (full submission guidelines at the bottom of this post, first time contributors encouraged)

Here are some past fashion covers for inspiration:

-By Lorenzo Mattotti

- By Christoph Niemann

-By Art Spiegelman

-By Ana Juan

To enter each week’s contest, please send sketches on this week’s theme. Use the submissions page or email submissions to blowncovers@gmail.com. I prefer sketches to finished work and good ideas to good drawings. Please send files in as jpegs under 1mb, and label the file with firstname.lastname. The deadline is Thursday at noon (NYC time). The themes on the Blown Covers website closely mirror what I suggest to the New Yorker artists I already work with. This blog and contest are informal and not affiliated with the magazine but I’m always on the lookout for ideas. Please keep submissions confidential in case they are selected for later publication. The winning sketch (according to my own subjective whims) will be posted here on Friday.