These Football Times
Cover illustration for These Football Times issue 43, the Colombia special — a single composition trying to hold a whole country's football history, Valderrama's hair included.
About the Project
Cover illustration for These Football Times issue 43, the Colombia special. The brief, more or less, was to fit as much Colombian football history into one composition as it could physically take — Carlos Valderrama's hair alone claimed about a third of the canvas, and I happily let it.
These Football Times was one of the best independent football publications going — lovely writing, lovely design — and I was genuinely glad they let me near a cover.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Sequence note
The closing plates are intended to read like a print-room pass: object, surface, and image held in sequence rather than treated as isolated uploads.
