I love that we put a can of tuna on the cover this month for Greg Rannells’ story, Tinned Treasures, for which he both shot the photographs and contributed the recipes.
Greg and I liked the design of all the tinned items’ packages, especially the typography in Nuri Brand’s Portuguese sardines. We also liked how illustrative some of them were, like the Ortiz and Arroyabe tunas. But packaging on the cover seemed like an advertisement, and it didn’t quite represent the story.
So, I tried a few different opened tinned items on the cover and even an image of just a lid. However, once we realized that the opened tuna tin in one of the pictures was in the shape of a fish, I knew it was our September cover – hook, line and sinker.
This article appears in Sep 1-30, 2010.
