We put the design for this month’s five limited-edition covers (available to subscribers) in the hands of five young graduates - no big leap of faith, considering that each one came hotly tipped by their tutors.
Some of our favourite creatives, all leading lights in their field, nominated their top student to design the covers for our Next Generation issue (W*142), all showcased below:
Furniture designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec nominated Brynjar Sigurðarson from ECAL, Lausanne
Fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm nominated Dimitrije Gojkovic from University of Applied Arts Vienna
Sculptor Richard Wentworth nominated David Buckley from the Royal College of Art, London
UN Studio co-founder Ben van Berkel collaborated with Tatjana Gorbachewskaja from Städelschule, Frankfurt
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister nominated Dora Budor and Maja Cule from the School of Visual Arts, New York
Nominated by Richard Wentworth
As is hinted by his limited-edition cover, Buckley is fascinated by tribal art works, ‘as much for their material qualities, as for the complications around how and for what reason such works came to be appreciated by western audiences’, he says. ‘The desire to experience exoticism, strangeness and foreignness through encountering objects within a conventional framework is at the root of how we have come, through cabinets of curiosities and then through museums, to experience works of art.’ In his work, Buckley tries to tease out that desire and to evoke the balance between order and disorder, as well as look at the frameworks of display and decoration (for instance through stands, plinths, or shelves) that go hand in hand to civilise foreign objects.
Most inspired by: ’I love the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and John Cassavetes, primarily because there is an edginess to how each constructs the narrative through editing and character acting, so that the viewer is never entirely sure what is going to happen next. I also love the pace of the work of W G Sebald, and how he managed to incorporate social and historical themes in his profound and moving novels.’
