D.W. Pine

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

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See the Evolution of TIME's Cover

On the occasion of TIME’s 100th birthday, Creative Director D.W. Pine explores how the magazine’s cover has evolved over the course of a century

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The Story Behind TIME's Centennial Cover

To mark our 100th year, we revisited some of the most influential TIME covers from the past century

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The Power of a TIME Cover

The cover of TIME has often been called the most important real estate in journalism—making some of the world’s best photographers and artists its architects

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Inside an AI Art Studio

The robots end up making a surprising number of independent aesthetic decisions in the course of painting each piece

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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"

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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

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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...

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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,”...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Story Behind TIME's 'Plague Election' Donald Trump Cover

For the cover of the Aug. 17, 2020 issue of TIME, longtime collaborator Tim O’Brien revisited his award-winning series depicting the mounting troubles facing President Trump. The new cover is the fourth installment and the...

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The Story Behind TIME's 'One Last Chance' Cover

Artist and scientist Jill Pelto created a vibrant landscape of key global climate change indicators

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Behind TIME's 'America Must Change' Cover

TIME commissioned Atlanta artist Charly Palmer to capture a moment in which Americans will see whether their country is able to live up to its promise

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The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Cover

For the June 15, 2020, cover on the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, we turned to prominent American artist Titus Kaphar. Kaphar's 60"x60" oil painting, titled Analogous Colors, features an African-American mother holding...

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We Designed 100 New Covers for TIME's Women of the Year Project. Here Are the Stories Behind Them

Each cover is visually emblematic of the period its subject represents

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The Story Behind TIME's Climate Change Cover

Thirty years ago, TIME named Planet Earth its Man of the Year, featuring a cover by the artist Christo of the earth encased in plastic on a beach in Long Island, NY. For this week’s...

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