Colour decoding

Magazines have long been fertile ground for artists, whether they’re cutting them up, satirising them in one way or another, reducing them to descriptions or to the size and position of their headlines/adverts.

Today’s 20×200 features a new take on Vogue and Vanity Fair (excerpted above). The artist, Lauren DiCioccio, has taken a text-heavy page from each of those august publications, and painstakingly replaced each later with an associated colour according to a code she has created.

The results, titled “Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All)” and “Vanity Fair MAY08-pg269 (and, incredibly, looking not a day older)” are really rather lovely, and far more colourful than their rather staid layout might deserve. As ever with 20×200, 200 small prints are available @ $20, 500 @ $50 and 20 giant size prints @ $200.

If you wanted to, of course, you could decode the articles from the colours (presumably their titles will give you a starting point). Something for a rainy day, right there.

Information, design, interaction, interpretation, magazines. I think that’s every one of my buttons pressed, except cake.