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Redesigns
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Redesigns
Hard Times
08.15.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’m a bit late with a response to the NY Times Magazines’ redesign. But, the topic is near and dear to my heart, (love The Times, love the Magazine, read them religiously, etc. etc.) that I wanted to weigh in. And, if the critical response matters at all to the editors and publisher (and I [...]
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Redesigns
It’s Pentlantic!
Pentagram tells the story of The Atlantic’s excellent new redesign on their site.
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On the racks, Redesigns
Love child
So, did you hear the one where Maxim and Yoga Journal have a baby. Punchline:
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Art Direction, Redesigns
Hollywood Noir
HL, or Hollywood Life is a hybrid celebrity/fashion magazine—two topics that leave me colder than a mafia hit man doing wet work in Anchorage—but it’s hard not to be seduced by HL’s stunning redesign, which premiered this month. What makes HL so spectacular is the photography, and what makes the photography so good, is lie [...]
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Redesigns
Creative Review
Creative Review is rolling out its overhaul this month, and they explain themselves on their blog. I’ve looked at the design of design magazines a couple of times.
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Redesigns
Wonk Times
As a guy who has made his career at the sort at publications that spend at least part of their time putting out articles on the arcane workings of government, I always take more of an interest than some would when wonks get jiggy with it. Politics, the rechristened Campaigns & Elections is on the [...]
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Redesigns
Bon Appétit
01.17.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI don’t like writing about redesigns unless I have examples from both before and after, but Bon Appétit’s new issue is too stunning to resist making a few comments. And, while I can’t get as specific as I would like about what changed—drawing only on my vague memories of the dry, stuffy and antiquated previous [...]
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Redesigns
Typographical Issues
@issue, new I’ve long felt that non-profit organizations and private industry should work together more diligently to produce decent swag for graphic designers. A template for successful products that might emerge from such public/private partnerships is @issue: The Journal of Business and Design, which is written and designed by The Corporate Design Foundation and [...]
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Redesigns
The Squire of London
Ok, I concede that I’m a little behind the curve on this—between the tramp steamer that carries the magazine drop shipment from the UK, and my various backlogs, it took me a while, but I had to write about the redesigned British Esquire. Editorially, BritEsq. tends to prove Mark Twain’s quip that explaining a joke [...]
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Redesigns
New Basics
09.10.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSomewhere around the time of Designing Magazine’s third post, the blog was damned with faint praise by a British observer who described it as well-written but U.S.-centric. This, I must admit, made me think of the old joke about a hard-drinkin’ bear (Bear walks into a tavern and orders a drink. Bartender eyes him suspiciously [...]
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Classics, Redesigns
Weird Science
Speaking of web-inspired stupidity, I caught the just-redesigned Scientific American the other day. A step back from the clean, contemporary look the magazine had been sporting, the new SA seems to reflect the belief that print is irrelevant so it might as well look the part. Now saddled with an odd mix of mid-century typography [...]
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