In 2012 Sight&Sound celebrated it's 80th year, we also redesigned the magazine and launched a digital edition. To celebrate we released this ad made by WhyNot Associates and featuring the voice of our advertising manager Ronnie Hackston.
Subscription illustration /
On our old subscription page, where we encourage readers to take our a subscription to the magazine, we featured a series of illustrations by Mick Brownfield. These took famous film scenes and twisted the dialogue to include a reference to subscribing to Sight&Sound.
Editorial /
The last item written for Sight&Sound each month is the editorial. Nick James, the editor, likes to do it when everything else is done and his mind is clear to think about what he wants to say. This is great for him, but not so good for the illustrator for this column, Simon Cooper, who has a short time to turn the words and often complex themes into a humorous illustration. Each time he manages to achieve this with aplomb. Examples below.
Dennis Potter Illustration /
Britain's pre-eminent television dramatist produced a body of work unmatched for the range of its polemical concerns. Pioneering the use of experimental techniques designed to shake viewers from their passive slumber on the sofa, his barbed, darkly comic work laid bare his own demons as he sought to shine a light on the nation's spiritual longings, sexual anxiety and political malaise. Illustration by Jimmy Turrell for the July 2014 issue of Sight&Sound.
Latest Sight&Sound Magazine Cover /
This month's issue features Amma Asante's 'Belle' on the cover. The film presents a fictionalised account of the true tale of a multi-race aristocrat in 18th-century England. It is a delicate portrait of the complexities of race and racism that strives to show that nothing in life is ever simply black and white.
Arthur Chiverton for Sight&Sound /
In the Rushes section of Sight&Sound there is a 'Dispatches' column by the critic and film-maker Mark Cousins. Each month they are illustrated by Arthur Chiveton. Below is a selection of his excellent work.
Borowczyk illustration /
The late Polish director may have alienated some critics with his idiosyncratic career trajectory – travelling from masterful short animations and the visual poetry of his early features 'Goto, Isle of Love' and 'Blanche' to the dismal softcore travesty of 'Emmanuelle 5' – but his perverse, confrontational narratives are now ripe for reappraisal. Excellent illustration of Walerian Borowczyk by Jimmy Turrell for the May 14 issue of Sight&Sound
New Sight&Sound Cover /
New Sight&Sound cover, on the left. Up to the day before we went to press it was going to be the version on the right.
History of Typography /
It takes me 40 mins to teach but this does it much better in 5 mins