Designer Lucille Tenazas tells us how she handles typography in the latest issue of Adobe Proxy. Download the PDF mag here (8.3 MB).
Tenazas’ cover design for the 1994 book The Body, as some of you may recall, was blatantly ripped off by the guys who did the movie poster for the Razzie Award-winning flick Showgirls.
Update: According to this, the photograph used in the book cover was by Tono Stano, and MGM acquired licensing to use the image (albeit an altered one). It’s clear though that the main inspiration was Tenazas’ cover design because her cropping of the picture was copied to a tee. The original photo includes the woman’s entire head.
Wow, I had no idea that the “Showgirls” poster was a rip-off of someone else’s work, much less one from a Filipino American. Coolness.
Wow, same here. I had no idea that it was a rip off. Hope you got some money out of it.