Coy Communications designs cover campaign for Lürzer’s Archive
To avoid light-fingered readers pinching its latest editions, ad mag Lüerzer’s Archive is issuing readers a series of unappealing alternative covers.

Spreadsheet Enthusiast
Conceived by ad group Leo Burnett and designed by consultancy Coy Communications, the new Crap Covers sleeves come with every new subscription.

Account Man Monthly
Coy’s director Mark Denton played magazine art director and worked with Coy photographer/director Fern Berresford and typographer Kate Henderson on the anti-design project.

Cock Handler
Berresford says, ‘Hands up who would want to half-inch Bucket Collector, Doily News, Account Man Monthly, De-Worming World, Spreadsheet Enthusiast, or Cock Handler…we thought not.’

De-Worming
They’re all rather good, but we’re particularly taken with De-Worming World, which comes with the cover line, ‘The Gloves Are Off (do you prefer it without gloves).’

Daily News
Berresford got to experiment with different photography styles for each cover and shot the whole set in one day, although some were more painstaking then others.
‘Getting a pug to look back with its arse to camera is quite difficult,’ she says.

Bucket Collector
The set of Crap Covers are being offered to subscribers now but will launch as a campaign at creative industry festival Cannes Lions next week.





Readers' comments (1)
Peter Richardson | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 1:48 pm
Brilliant idea, brilliantly executed and very funny.
Sign me up for Cockhandler.
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