This Artist’s Doodles Give New Life To Magazine Covers

Working in digital publication in no way takes away my love for printed glossies! Every time I pick up a fashion magazine in my hands, it instantly transports me to the land of my dreams where I imagine myself strutting awkwardly on the streets of New York in Prabal Gurung and Oscar de la Renta. I have to say I’m incredibly pensive and intense in my imagination. Does that happen to you? Anyway, what makes me pick up the magazine itself is its cover but sadly I have to often settle for a celebrity’s face splashed over it. Unless it’s W Magazine’s cover with Rihanna (Edward Enninful, you’re my God!), that cover left me speechless. I guess that’s why when I recently discovered Brazilian Artist Ana Strumpf’s Re.Cover series, I was in magazine covers heaven.

What Ana Strumpf does is simply pick up a magazine and give it a new life with her whimsical doodles and patterns. What started off as a simple means to entertain herself while being on long Skype calls for work during her stay in New York soon turned into a full-blown series once she posted them on Instagram. Speaking about her Re.Cover series during an interview, Ana Strumpf said, “The idea to recreate, revisit, recompose is a principle that has permeated all my work for a long time. Since the time I owned my design store, I recycled vintage textiles from my parents’ fabric company and repurposing them as bags, cushions and furniture upholstery. Now, I do it in the form of manual interventions on fashion magazine covers. Now, when the printed press is going through such a strong crisis, I find it’s a playful way to resignify publications that would otherwise end up discarded.”

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