#George Lois

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George Lois

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"Dustin Hoffman grows up!" Esquire, July 1970 Cover by George Lois and Carl Fischer

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April 1968. The photos are by Carl Fischer, but it was ESQUIRE art director George Lois who suggested posing Muhammad Ali as Saint Sebastian. Ali was uneasy about the Catholic symbolism (he ended up running the concept by Herbert Muhammad before agreeing), but Lois says Ali — who was convicted in June 1967 of violating the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army — had a very clear idea what it all meant. As Lois told ROLLING STONE in 2016:

He took his right hand out from behind his back and pointed at each of the arrows. And then he’d say the names of the people in this world that were out to get him. He’d point to one arrow: “Lyndon Johnson.” The next one: “General [William] Westmoreland [who led the Vietnam operation].” Then: “Robert McNamara.” Each of the arrows [was] a person in the government that had hurt him. I can’t even tell you how stunning it was.”

On June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Ali's conviction, ruling that the draft appeal board had not given cause for rejecting Ali's claim of conscientious objector status.

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George Lois and Carl Fischer, Cover of Esquire, November 1970

"The November 1970 issue was a Molotov cocktail. An excerpt from a book by John Sack of the story of Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr., the soldier facing trial for the My Lai massacre. Lois’ cover was a masterpiece. It made his great Sonny Liston as Santa Claus cover look like a Disney cartoon. The image showed Calley in uniform, surrounded by Vietnamese children. He was the nation’s Frankenstein monster. And in the photo, Lois had him smiling.”- Frank DiGiacomo, Vanity Fair

“This was the most controversial of them all. John Sack, he was writing a book about [William] Calley, who was instrumental in killing 500 men women and children at My Lai. Hayes told me they were doing an excerpt of the book, and I knew right away what I wanted: A picture of Calley sitting with Vietnamese kids in his lap, and I wanted him with a shit-eating grin. I knew it was going to be controversial. It was the only shoot I ever did when I really bullshitted a guy; I gave him my war stories from Korea, I said I’d gotten into a situation in Korea like the one in My Lai, I lied, and I won him over. And the kids just looked at the camera, and I said, ‘Calley, give me a big shit-eating grin!’ And he did it. It ran and, I’m telling you, people went crazy in America.”- Lois

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El diseño de revistas está de luto. QEPD George Lois (1931-2022), quien diseñó algunas de las portadas de revistas más famosas en EE.UU. cuando fue director de arte de la revista Esquire, de 1962 a 1972. Sus libros sobre diseño gráfico y conceptualizacion visual de ideas son fundamentales.

George Lois Home Page.

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George Lois and other graphic design greats at Parsons School of Design.

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Food and Feet

This was written in 2022 looking back at 2 years of chaotic ministry with Covid-19 being in the foreground and background of everything. In a pioneering context discipleship can be hard to see. Many of the expressions of pioneering are of one person leading something new. Discipleship seems to be something that discussed in church or talked about in youth settings. What does a disciple look…

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George Lois, 1965

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PODCAST: R. O. Blechman

PODCAST: R. O. Blechman

That was the first drawing I saw by R. O. Blechman. I loved it instantly. Firstly, it’s a great observation of how companies operate, particularly ad agencies. But also, I was in the ideas business and I’d never seen them represented like that – in different levels from a tiny lightbulb to an enormous chandelier. I also loved the naive style of the drawing. It looked like a note one naughty child…

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Myrna Loy photographed by George Hurrell for Charles Brabin‘s NEW MORALS FOR OLD (1932)

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Myrna Loy / photo by George Hurrell, 1933.

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Lois & Clark actors on set.

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George Lois and Carl Fischer, Cover of Esquire, November 1965