{"id":537,"date":"2024-02-02T01:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:27:02","slug":"remaking-a-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/remaking-a-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking A Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently rewatched <em>Bull Durham<\/em> and was reminded of why it&#8217;s the GOAT of sports movies. It also reminded me of a design I created very early on in my career. This was the cover for a special section <em>The Herald-Sun<\/em> produced to commemorate 100 years of pro baseball in Durham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"1024\" width=\"633\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bulls-cover-old.jpg?resize=633%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2002 Bulls special section cover\" class=\"wp-image-538\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back at the cover more than 20 years later, this was a classic entry in the &#8220;look who discovered Photoshop filters&#8221; showcase. It&#8217;s kind of the design equivalent of insisting on starting a first-ball fastball hitter with the heat to announce your presence with authority. So while the movie was playing, I started remaking the cover to see what difference two decades of experience makes. Here&#8217;s the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"1024\" width=\"634\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bulls-cover-new-634x1024.jpg?resize=634%2C1024\" alt=\"Remake of Bulls cover\" class=\"wp-image-543\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a classic sports movie while remaking a &#8230; umm &#8230; classic sports section cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bulls-cover-featured.jpg?fit=1872%2C757&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}