currents magazine

Currents Magazine

This illustration was commissioned by IBM for the July, 1984 cover of their magazine called Currents.

IBM was based in Boca Raton, Florida for many years. An art director friend of mine gave me a referral to IBM's art director who was looking to have a cover piece created that involved architecture. The assignment was to create an imaginary city and feature one of IBM's newest computers at that time, the series 1 in the center, as if it were a high rise office building. They gave me complete license to create anything I wanted within that guideline and that's what any artist wants to hear. My original concept sketch included a building on fire with fire trucks in the street and I showed King Kong climbing up to the top of the computer building. They said do whatever you want!

I remembered I wasn't 10 years old anymore and since I didn't want my artist license revoked, I cleaned up the rough sketch (I did sneak in a helicopter). Anyway, this project was tons of fun to work on. I think IBM is up to series 1,000 by now.

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