I love the graphic quality of the human hand. On an old M*A*S*H episode in the 70s, Hawkeye ruminated on the wonder of the hand, from a physiological point of view. Great designers have used the hand as a design element time and again; the Modernists of the 40s and 50s (like Will Burtin and Lester Beall) in particular made great use of the hand form. Today, designers like Sharon Werner, Felix Sockwell, and the Wink boys have used the stylized hand to great effect.
The two images above are fairly recent BND pieces: the Vote poster was submitted to the AIGA for the 2008 election season, and was one of 12 selected (out of 300) for publication and national distribution. The book cover was done for Penn State University Press, for a book of essays on Brown v. the Board of Education.
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