“American Illustration 31 presented the year's most subversive work by illustrators, fine artists and designers, with an anatomical cover that shows you where you're going and where you're coming from with the first and last images revealed through die cuts in the eye’s pupil. Created by Zachary Zezima and designed by Paul Sahre, the cover art turns in on itself with layers of musculature, ‘eye floaters’ and blood vessels until you reach the whopping collection of 439 winning images selected by a jury of art and design professionals from over 8,000 submissions to the annual competition.”