Ian Woods

The method has not changed since 2020 and the method is the whole argument: two printed images stacked, a pattern drawn on the top sheet, an X-Acto blade through both, glue, and a face that reads as two faces at once. Illinois born, Dallas raised, working out of Palm Bay. The New York Times Book Review put his jacket for Elias Canetti's I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole, designed by Alex Merto at Picador, among the best covers of 2022. His project list now opens with Nike's Winter Olympics, Neymar's PUMA Future 9s, Shinola and the Jordan AJ40. The blade is gatekept. What it cuts is the most reproduced imagery on earth, and that is where the score settles.