Browsing through the inspiring gallery of winning designs from the Society of Publication Designers’ 2008 competition, I came across this image, a Merit Award winner in the front/back of book category by designer/art director Eva Spring and illustrator Alli Arnold:

Aside from the charm and simplicity of the image, what struck me was the shoe – straight out of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Shoe:

Of all the great things about the painting, nothing is better than the shoe. And that shoe was on my mind because I’d seen it this weekend at the Brooklyn Museum Yinka Shonibare exhibition:

A good idea is a good idea, wherever you steal it from.

 

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