Wired UK’s Andrew Diprose on the changing role of the art director, and why robots never sell a magazine

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Andrew Diprose started his career at Smash Hits magazine, when, as he puts it, “pop magazines were the biggest thing in the world and Take That had just started touring”. From there he has worked as a designer and art director on titles including Sky magazine, Elle, Esquire, Arena and GQ. Ten years ago he was brought in as the founding art director of the UK version of the US monthly Wired. Here, he talks us through how the role of the creative director has changed over the past decade and explains how he visualises topics that are, by their very nature, almost impossible to visualise.

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May 03, 2019 at 02:00PM Posted by Its That Nice http://bit.ly/2LnGDls