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  Omni

  12.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Slate remembers Omni magazine in this gentle tribute to the proto-Wired.

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  ….or Perish!

  03.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the stacks this week: Publish! the magazine of Desktop publishing, February 1990 issue. I have no clue why I kept this magazine all these years, except maybe as a warning to myself never to art direct a cover this ugly. Who would have guessed that purple and turquoise would look dated 18 years later? [...]

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  Pages

  01.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  By Way of MagCulture: a look at Black culture through magazine pages on Flikr; and by way of Publication Design, a gallery of Metropoli pages on Speak Up.

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  When men were men

  09.15.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve just come across Norman Saunders’ online collection of pulp magazines from the 1950s and ’60s. All I have to say is that the men’s titles must be seen to be believed. Hot babes and Nazis, Nazis torturing hot babes, and hot babes who are Nazis torturing U.S. Soldiers seem to be the predominant theme[s]. [...]

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  Designing for the Sexes

  08.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been out of town on a research project, and haven’t had a chance to write so I thought I’d post this out-of-date but still uproariously amusing piece from a few years ago. Written on spec, several editors told me that it was really quite clever but inappropriate for [insert publication name] because it [reason]. [...]

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  Our latest premiere

  07.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’ve long enjoyed browsing the Premiere Issue Project, but it raises an interesting question—what exactly is a premiere issue? Before and during a launch publishers might do limited-run issues to garner interest from readers and advertisers, and once the issue is actually in production they may slap the word “premier” on not just one but [...]

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  SPD 40

  06.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I didn’t buy SPD Solid Gold, The Society of Publication Designer’s 40th Anniversary volume although I was tempted—it has a lot of nice work. The trouble with anniversary volumes, however, is that they tend to be edited with an eye towards what’s relevant for today’s readers, and what reflects best on the reputation of the [...]

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