The New Yorker Cover - Feb 4, 2013

This cover for the February 4, 2013, issue of The New Yorker, titled "Downhill," is by the German artist Birgit Schössow. The artwork creates a clever trompe l'oeil effect, making it appear as though the white cover has been torn diagonally, revealing the printed text of a story on the page beneath. A tiny, colorful skier is shown racing down the steep "slope" formed by the paper's edge.

Artistic Insight

"Downhill" is a masterful and witty piece of conceptual design that plays with the very nature of the magazine as a physical object. By transforming the blank page into a snowy landscape and the printed text into the terrain, Birgit Schössow blurs the line between the medium and the message. The artwork is a delightful metaphor for the act of reading itself, casting the reader as an intrepid adventurer skiing down the slopes of a story. It’s a fresh, imaginative, and interactive concept that finds a surprising new world within the familiar format of a magazine page.

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