D.W. Pine

D.W. Pine is the Creative Director at TIME.

Recent Articles

The Story Behind TIME’s New Optical Illusion Climate Change Cover

"It is my hope that viewers take away from this some idea of how much their own perception of the world contributes to making it"

By D.W. Pine October 27, 2022

The Story Behind TIME's Metaverse Cover

Micah Johnson, a former Major League baseball shortstop turned digital artist, rendered an image of a virtual portal featuring his character Aku

By D.W. Pine July 18, 2022

The Story Behind TIME's Oceans Issue Cover

TIME has covered the planet and the dramatic damage done to it by human beings for more than a half century. With the rise of modern environmentalism came a double-width foldout on water use in...

By D.W. Pine June 23, 2022

The Story Behind TIME's 'Year One' Joe Biden Cover

As President Joseph Biden closes in on his first year in office, the Jan. 31, 2022, TIME cover returns to a familiar setting—a gloomy Oval Office. Artist Tim O’Brien christened Biden’s administration with “Day One,”...

By D.W. Pine January 20, 2022

TIME and Legendary Bookstore Partner on New Cover Exhibit

TIME and one of the world's most beautiful bookstores are joining together for a new exhibit, celebrating the greatest authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. The “What Makes a Nobel?” exhibit, which opens June...

By D.W. Pine June 1, 2021

The Story Behind TIME and Beeple's Future of Business Cover

For TIME's cover story on the future of business and the digitization of everything—which accompanies our list of the 100 most influential companies—we turned the space over to an artist who’s been at the forefront...

By D.W. Pine April 27, 2021

The Story Behind the 'Climate is Everything' Cover

To illustrate the dramatic effects of climate change on our interconnected world for the April 26 issue of TIME, we turned the cover canvas over to “an artist who paints without a paintbrush.” Malaysian artist...

By D.W. Pine April 15, 2021

The Stories Behind Donald Trump’s TIME Covers

At a dinner for the TIME 100 in 2019, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, asked me a question: "What is your favorite TIME cover of my father-in-law?” I don’t normally like to...

By D.W. Pine January 19, 2021

The Story Behind TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Covers

To illustrate the broad range of people featured on the 2020 Person of the Year covers, we commissioned artists and photographers with a variety of backgrounds and styles—from digital art to oil painting; portraitists to...

By D.W. Pine December 10, 2020

The Story Behind TIME's 'Covid Winter' Cover

For this week’s cover on how Americans are reacting to the current surge in covid-19 cases, we turned to London-based artists Sean Freeman and Eve Steben to capture the bleak forecast ahead. The duo, who...

By D.W. Pine November 19, 2020
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