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The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers | Françoise Mouly

The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers | Françoise Mouly

The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers | Françoise Mouly

TED Talks Art · Françoise Mouly

August 3, 20178m 16s

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Meet Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 to a recent, Russia-influenced riff on the magazine's mascot, Eustace Tilley. In this visual retrospective, Mouly considers how a simple drawing can cut through the torrent of images that we see every day and elegantly capture the feeling (and the sensibility) of a moment in time.

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