Loving Football When It Doesn't Love You Back
Combining dark humor with incisive visuals, Shields is as bald with her awkward personal anecdotes as she is with the sport she loves. From a comic rewrite of referee signaling to a harrowing list of NFL assault cases, the result is an unprecedented interrogation of football and fandom.
Natalie Shields is a Seattle-raised book artist and daughter of bestselling author David Shields. She is a NYC-based graduate of RISD, a member of design collective Henry Blank, and a designer at Doubleday & Cartwright. Her book Love, Floppy Disks, & Other Things the Internet Killed received the RISD thesis award.
Natalie Shields is a book artist, Seattle-raised sports fan, and daughter of bestselling author David Shields. Her work has been published in the Daily Beast and purchased by Special Collections museums at Yale University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Washington. She is a 2015 graduate of RISD, a member of the design collective Henry Blank, and a designer at the creative agency Doubleday & Cartwright in New York. Her first book Love, Floppy Disks, & Other Things the Internet Killed received the RISD graphic design thesis award and will be published this year.
