I asked Kevin Sarkki for the backstory on the 1985 Catalog Cover and provided him with a key to identify the people in the image. For more about Kevin check out the interview with him.
“The Holiday 1985 cover was perhaps the most collaborative cover. The logo/masthead featured Primo Angeli’s design punctuated by Patricia Zeigler’s “Banana Star” emblem. By this time Terry Stelling was acting as the department design director. He approached me with the concept, that I believe was the wish of Patricia, to bring together many of the main office employees, famous artists and writers, in an adventuresome scene depicting the historical British empire. I photographed some colleagues, and other pics were provided (hence the unknown #10). A collage was created with these and Victorian clip art. Then a repro house copied the collage onto a paper which I tinted using watercolors. Terry worked with graphic designers and writers to get the type design and message just right.”
| 1) Ed Strobin
2) Rob Stein 3) __anonymous Victorian clip art 4) Debbie Goldstein 5) Helga Braun 6) Amelia Earhart 7) Leonardo Da Vinci 8 ) Ernest Hemingway 9) Donald Fisher 10) __ unknown* 11) Bob Fisher (one of Don’s sons) 12) Teddy Roosevelt13) Albert Einstein |
14) Joanne Synder
15) Mike Madrid 16) Jeff Daly 17) Terry Stelling 18) Lisa Weiner 19) April Funk 20) Beki Caddel 21) Barry Klingerman 22) Jack London 23) Randi Silverman 24) Robert Louis Stevenson 25) Jeff Johnson 26) Kathy Meyers |
27) __ my anima**
28) Patricia Zeigler 29) Mel Zeigler 30) Julie Smith 31) Sandy Mullins 32) Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) 33) __ tribal clip art 34) Pablo Picasso 35) Dennis Colbert 36) Rudyard Kipling 37) Bonnie Dahan 38) Rose Gwilliam 39) Bill Richins 40) Jane Greenberg 41) Andy Gordon |
* unknown, though she may have been a member of the Fisher family as she was positioned near Don and Bob.
If your site gets a large following it may be fun put a call out to all visitors to help find the identity of this person.
** I was nearing the end of my tenure at BR so I chose not to place my image on this cover, instead, I created a
female image, think of her as my anima (Jungian concept) with stylings inspired by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani.
~Kevin Sarkki
