Illan Meslier The Iceman
An Illan Meslier cover for The Square Ball — The Iceman, the teenage keeper who looked like he'd been doing it for decades, plus a cat called Vinny.
About the Project
Illan Meslier. The Iceman. He turned up at Leeds as a teenager on loan from Lorient and went on to become the youngest goalkeeper to keep a Premier League clean sheet — impossibly calm for his age, with the kind of composure you'd expect from someone who had been doing it for decades rather than months.
Cover illustration for The Square Ball, complete with a tribute to a very special cat named Vinny, who more than earned his place in the artwork.
A paced run of supporting images that extends the main illustration into a fuller editorial sequence.
The image run is paced as a continuation of the cover idea, with each plate expanding the editorial field.
Sequence note
Taken together, the plates read less like supplementary images and more like a complete editorial spread that can be entered from several angles.
