Burning Money: Behind This Week's Cover Shoot

By RUTH BROWN

Occasionally we pull back the curtain on the wizardry behind our art department's fantastic covers. This is such a week. 


So how did art director Ben Mollica and photographer Matt Wong get smoke to billow out of a fire helmet for this week's cover story, "Burning Money?" Dry ice and the advanced graphic design technique of flipping a photo upside down:

 

 

 

 

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