Pryds Creativity Piece in Design Magazine

The fall/winter issue of Design magazine has landed on my doormat – and on doormats of subscribers all over the world. Design is published quarterly by the international organization Society for News Design, and the theme for this special double issue is "Hitting the reset button". Editor Jonathon Berlin asked me to write a piece about rebooting creativity, and I sent him the spread shown above – a package including both text, illustration and page design, with the title, "Six Simple Tricks to Keep Your Pencil Sharp". The spread was kindly included on page 16-17 in the 'reset section', which also feature great articles by Joe Grimm, Vladdo, Sarah Slobin, Roger Black, Mike Swartz and SND President Matt Mansfield. (Click the image to see a larger version).
__The magazine cover (shown right) is a wonderful collage inspired by Rodin's "The Thinker", Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel , and – Apple's reset button.
__One element from my illustration (the pin-up girl, of course, see below) is also used on the contents page; which means that one of the points I make on the spread – finding something to grab the reader's attention – actually works.
__Amazing, by the way, to se my name spelled in three different ways in one magazine (Pyrds, Prdys, and Pryds – the latter being the right way). But then again, nobody's perfect, and I guess it's probably even more difficult to pronounce correctly …