ch-ch-ch-changes

martha voutas, an art di­rec­tor i knew, knew some­one who knew some­one, and all of a sud­den i was work­ing for ‪david bowie‬.

i met him at his manager’s of­fice on 57th street. he opened the door and pro­ceed­ed to charm the socks off me, in spite of his still-british teeth. 

we dis­cussed the project, an al­bum cov­er and poster for a ‪‎pen­nebak­er‬ ‪‎doc­u­men­tary‬ of ‪‎bowie‬ as ‪‎zig­gy star­dust‬, called, ap­pro­pri­ate­ly, ‘zig­gy‬.’ he then or­dered cheese­burg­ers deluxe and cokes for us. we ate junk food and laughed. then i took the sub­way down­town and he flew back to switzerland.

this was way be­fore e mail. i’d fedex dif­fer­ent poster ideas to him. he’d phone me at odd hours, and say things like this:

“you know that poster you sent me last week?”

“yes.”

“well, could you do some­thing that’s like, the op­po­site of that?”

“what do you mean?”

“well, you know the way it is?”

“yes.”

“well, that’s ex­act­ly what i don’t want, so could you do some­thing that’s as dif­fer­ent from what you did as possible?”

“um, sure thing, mis­ter bowie!”

so that’s how i met david bowie, ge­nius mu­sic leg­end and world’s worst art di­rec­tor. that said, i’ve worked with sev­er­al hun­dred hor­ri­ble art di­rec­tors, and not one of them can sing ‘rebel, rebel’ worth a damn. i’m a bowie fan for ever. they end­ed up us­ing a pho­to­graph, but still. i’ll dine out on that cheese­burg­er as long as i live.

—lau­rie rosenwald

the 1981 orig­i­nal zig­gy poster, which was a film pos­i­tive with col­or-aid un­der­neath it!

Flom­mist Lau­rie Rosen­wald is an Amer­i­can il­lus­tra­tor, au­thor, artist, and de­sign­er. Copy­right © 2016 Lau­rie Rosenwald.

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