50+ Years of Gentlemen's Quarterly Covers

I've been a long time fan of GQ, and have always appreciated the type work put into making the front covers.  After finding the GQ magazine cover archive, I dove head in to 529 covers, picking the ones for their design and layout work instead of which celebrity was featured.  Pretty amazing collection, I have to say.

They gradually transitioned from a heavy text and linear graphic usage to a cleaner and more trimmed look, going form serif to sans-serif and even losing the thin outline around the G and the Q starting in October of 1983.  Then around early 1995 they decided to do a little bit of a shadow behind the lettering, but then moved past that phase around 2000 and went back to solid lettering.  Right near the end of 2001 they started using the lighter opacity as it is seen on the cover today, in addition to using typographical symbols like bolded asterisks,positive signs, and angle brackets.

Images credited and belonging to GQ

Mike Mitchell - The artist behind 'The Dude Invitational' and 'I'm With Coco' posters

Now this is not a question of whether you have undying love for The Big Lebowski or if it makes you flaccid; this is not only a movie poster remake that is very well done, but one that is pretty clever in existing within the fictional reality of the actual film itself.  Posters sold out here.

You've probably seen the Lebowski poster if you own an IP address in the United States, but here's some other work from Mike Mitchell's portfolio.

Here's the beyond-infamous "I'm with CoCo" poster design that put Mike Mitchell on the map:

Now this is a tale of regular average-joe artist from humble Reddit beginnings to becoming the official design for Conan's AmericanExpress-sponsored tour.  The poster is still available here.  ...And W.T.H. is this knockoff trying to pass off as?  I guess it shows that everyone's trying to get a dollar these days.