Blown Covers

Weddings: The Winner!

So the truth is out: I like skeletons! And I appreciate the use of a hand, a hand in marriage with a simple wedding ring, meant to represent a commitment “til death do us part.” Nadja didn’t at first see why the artist would associate wedding and death, but it makes sense to me, maybe because I’m considerably older….life, death, marriage: I like an image that cuts to the core.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 1

By Charrow

Owww. So sweet! I like the fact that the bulldogs are not anthropomorphized: except of course for their clothes, they are very dog-like with serious, almost mask-like expressions befitting the occasion. They seem somewhat pathetic, not at all excited by what’s about to happen. The blue and pink pillows add a nice touch: this image is all about the feelings we project on our pets.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 2

By Denis Carrier

A sophisticated design that elegantly represents one of the important ways husbands and wives are joined in marriage.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runners-up # 3

By Isabella Bannerman, Jin Suk and Julien Couty

Oh, to think that even “the most beautiful day of one’s life” is likely to be experienced as another moment mediated by all our devices… Note that all the artists who had this idea also chose to have the priest as up-to-date as the happy couple.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 4

By Delton Demarest

A play on the classic image of the bride throwing her bouquet. The bridesmaids running for their lives give a telling portrait of how contemporary women view marriage: they’re at polar ends from their mothers or grandmothers.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runners-up # 5

By Bruce Roberts and Gabriel Guma

This is—sigh—a good representation of the modern couple, each in his or her world of online relationships, with barely a foot in the present moment.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 6

By Andre Slob

The contrast of the two silhouettes lost in each other against the background of calamities and devastation give a certain power to this image—it feels timeless. (We hesitated wondering whether there was any meaning in the specificity of this couple, before deciding that they were meant to be generic—and they could have been more so.)

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 7

By Daniel Kondo

Simple and funny; first we were grateful to have a princess and a frog kissing (it’s a must in any wedding image repertoire) and then it was nice to get the joke thought balloon as an extra.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 8

By Jeremie DeCalf

The ring turned into brass knuckles, but still decorated with diamonds. Ok, so there are lots of layers of meaning here, but it still certainly qualifies as a take on modern marriage.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 9

By Tim Foley

One wonders, “why Bride of Frankenstein?” But then you see Frankenstein reading the magazine, and it seals the deal. Why not make a cute timeless joke, especially when it’s so nicely stitched together.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 10

By MJSketchbook

The one-point perspective of the bridge seals the kiss and gives it gravitas. Besides, that is the bridge that would take this Brooklyn couple to City Hall.

06/1/12

Weddings: Runner-up # 11

By Maria Eugenia

Very sweet: the hardcore punk girl who is still a princess at heart. Nadja wished the image hadn’t used any words (they aren’t needed), but I like the way a drawing of a drawing portrays an alternate reality.

06/1/12