(5) Researching Fabien Baron

Fabien Baron

I've been researching an artist known as Fabien Baron. So far, he has become one of my favourite artists in the editorial design sector. His work is very abstract but still well accepted among the mainstream audience. I've seen a lot of his previous work in old Vogue issues and some websites. Here are some examples of work that he's done:

You can see that Baron is a huge fan of large headings and lettering. This is something that I'm hoping to incorporate into my designs. I like the idea of crowding an entire page with a title and or just a simple letter and photography. It's clean but still contains a wealth of aesthetically qualities to appeal to a large audience. This is exactly what I'm hoping to incorporate into my magazine. Here's some information I've found out about Fabien Baron:

"Fabien Baron is well known as one of the leading creative directors of our time. Vanity Fair magazine has called him “the most sought-after creative director in the world. Great names in fashion flock to him to bring a certain cool, understated elegance to their public images.”

"Condé Nast soon moved Baron to Milan, Italy, to redesign Italian Vogue in 1988 under editor Franca Sozzani. After a year and a half, he returned to New York to become creative director of Interview magazine during its 1990 relaunch. He turned Interview into a showcase for the best in contemporary photography, illustration and typographic design.

In 1992, the late editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis asked Baron to join her dream team to reinvent Harper’s Bazaar. His elegantly innovative new design and creative direction earned the magazine two Ellie’s, the most esteemed award in the magazine world, from the American Society of Magazine Editors"