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I’ve been wanting to do a Banksy-inspired cover for a while and the legal-education issue lent itself to the urban-art style. For this cover, I had Law Week designer Amy Vanchina photograph my body holding a soda cup (for lack of a spray-paint can) and then I proceeded to cut off my head and replace it with the head of actor Charles Andrew Callaghan (as actors are prettier than graphic designers). I desaturated the image and upped the contrast until I started losing detail. I then dropped out the white of the image and replaced it with my own spray-painted white background.

For the Law Week banner and title treatment, I basically created a stencil with layer masks and filled in with the white and red spray paint. You can see where the ‘stencil’ stopped and the paint bled over the edge. A few spray-paint drips later, we have the finished cover.

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