
John Foster|Accidental Mysteries
November 20, 2015
Variations on a Rectangle
Cover of Variations on a Rectangle by DJ Stout
DJ was showing the world what great editorial design was all about and it was being noticed. The magazine was fresh and beautiful, and Stout was smart enough to hire the best illustrators and photographers in the world to grace the publication. Art directors and designers everywhere envied his budgets, which we outliers surmised must have been unlimited. Over the years, the pages of Texas Monthly showcased a virtual Who’s Who of the best creative talent in the world. Illustrators like Brad Holland, Marc English, Matt Mahurin, and Dutch artist Braldt Bralds, were just the tip of the very large illustrated iceberg. Photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Geof Kern, Keith Carter, and Michael O’Brian, again—there are too many to mention. Stout spent thirteen years at the magazine, enough time to have worked with just about everyone who was anyone in the creative field.

Sexy, down-home branding for Lucy’s Fried Chicken, a local fried chicken joint.
The winter, 2013 issue of LMU magazine for Loyola Marymount University
Cream of the Crops, May 1991 issue of Texas Monthly, with photographs by Tom Ryan
Surf Texas, monograph by photographer Kenny Braun, published by University of Texas Press, 2013
Visual theme for 2013 Texas Book Festival, featuring work by Austin photographer Randal Ford
Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration, 2005
Book design, War Photography, 2012
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