The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers | Françoise Mouly

Meet Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 to a recent, Russia-influenced riff on the magazine's mascot, Eustace Tilley. In this visual retrospective, Mouly considers how a simple drawing can cut through the torrent of images that we see every day and elegantly capture the feeling (and the sensibility) of a moment in time.
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[@artesgr1]

A brilliant woman, with an incredible artistic and professional trajectory! His determination to support artists and cartoonists has to be appreciated even more today!

[@JesuMedina]

🇪🇸 *From Spain thank you Francoise Mouly!* ❤️😉

[@WillScarlet16]

As a kid I was always disappointed with the New Yorker - those covers always made me think they had something to do with what was inside, and that there was some fantastic, weird and wild story - only there wasn't.

[@NathanGatten]

Weird, the ad just kept playing through the whole video...

[@1969Kismet]

5'55 got me :"Oh sweet Jesus Please God no", "Anything but that", "Come on" Cracked me up!

[@nancyrose5326]

1969Kismet l

[@1969Kismet]

+Nancy Rose, Yep ?

[@GingerGingie]

Excellent talk. Thank you!

[@DungeonBricks]

I love how this links so well with the first episode of Abstract: The art of desing.

[@SexualPotatoes]

Why is she doing a TED talk about other people's work?

[@dr.arpitkoolwal]

Romanski sssss

[@RoopaDudleyPaintings]

She is taking the credit for being the woman and an inspiration behind the images.

[@BunnyFett]

Very clever. I liked this speech.

[@letzrock1675]

I wonder what kind of nice covers they came up with when the dementia in chief was elected in 2020? Perhaps it had to do with pools, kids, and leg hair?

[@Blorp_]

idc

[@chinhtraninh1628]

thanks :3

[@BunnyFett]

I like her dress.