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• Misc., Trend Spotting

  Digestif

  07.27.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I bought a bunch of magazines on my recent European adventure (and I plan on writing about them, I really do) but a couple I didn’t buy were these British men’s digests. (Please forgive the blurry iPhone photos.) As I recall, when the smaller size first migrated to the US in the woman’s sector, the [...]

• Pages, Trend Spotting

  Tyrany of CMYK

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Back when I was a young magazine designer, folks used to talk about “builds” in between swiping at each other with their Xacto knives (all good fun of course). Now I know what you’re thinking, but there were no blocks or bricks involved—“build” is a color term. Say if you wanted a green, you’d build [...]

• In the Ether, On the racks, Trend Spotting

  Penny pinching

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The editors at Budget Travel are awfully proud of their just-published 10th anniversary issue. In a statement in the June issue, they congratulate themselves heartily on their forward thinking. And, a flack from the magazine sent me a free copy along with an offer to speak to one of the self-satisfied editors myself. If Budget [...]

• Trend Spotting

  The Front

  03.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Details body+soul Esquire Gourmet For a while now, Details has had an usual first page for their newsbrief section. While the standard newsfront is the home of the most newsworthy, best, or meatiest of the short items that make up a FOB, Details tore their traditional-style lead down and replaced it with a page of [...]

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