Calendar from William L. Carqueville's Covers for Lippincott's?
William L. Carqueville (1871-1946) is best known as a poster artist. He designed numerous covers for popular magazines in the USA, and today we'll check a full year of creations for Lippincott's.
These covers are made in his typical style, influenced by Art Nouveau (he spent a few years in Paris studying art), yet evolved into his own signature manner with large areas of bold one-shade-only colors. Of course, his covers not only depict female (with two exceptions) figures, his by far most favorite subjects, but he adjusted their wardrobe to every month when the magazine was published, as well. He actually made specific backgrounds and used appropriate details without straying from a generally minimalistic approach.
This means that such covers can be appreciated from an artistic and a documentary view. What else can we do with Will Carqueville's covers? The idea of using them for a calendar is self-evident. Each of thelve month is already presented with a spectacular graphic and only dates should be added to make a fully functional calendar with unique decorative effects. Just try to use a roughly matched font.
Here are the covers in monthly sequence:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
And here is an example of a calendar made of William L. Carqueville's cover with a few minutes of additional work with open-source tools like Inkscape, GIMP, and Open Office. It's up to you if you make calendars in digital form only or print them and hang them on the office wall to impress co-workers and clients.
Did you like this presentation? Somehow similar style can be observed in the article about Edward Penfield. Take a look and spread the word!
