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Arms and the Glossy
I meant to write about this a few months ago, but as a wonderful resource for magazine designers, it’s still worth a post. Magazines and War 1936-1936 was an exhibit at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Safia. Featuring pages published contemporaneously with the Spanish Civil War, the socialist, and socialism-inflected designs are, surprisingly, a [...]
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Church of the Poison Mind
I was surprised to find the book of the SubGenius still in print. My excuse for including it on a magazine design site? First, it’s highly cool. Second, many of the pages, and all of the art was originally created for the SubGenius Zine back in the 80s. Like the church of the flying spaghetti [...]
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Zendik
06.10.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsIn summer, DC streets fill with bright-eyed volunteers gathering donations and signatures for various organizations—the DNC, several conservation groups and a host of others. All worthy causes—though they always want to chat when your top priority is a BLT. One of the less worthy if more entertaining groups of youth to descend regularly on the [...]
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NatLamp MagRomp
Rescued from the remainder bin at Borders on L: 2006’s National Lampoon Magazine Rack, a compendium of the Humor Magazine’s satires of various publication over the years. I’ve made no secret of my fondness for magazine satire, but these leave me cold. The cover promises sophomoric humor for men, which I’m all for, but the [...]
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Off the racks, Teaching
Academic Report
Akademische Mitteilungen (issue 12) would be a remarkable magazine by any standards, but considering that it’s a student publication, it is nothing short of phenomenal. The glossy is the work of communications and design students at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart under the capable tutelage of Prof. Hans-Georg Pospischil (and, I [...]
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The Tyranny of Paper
A recent piece on NPR about the trend in electoral politics of making sure that electronic ballots come with paper backups was only the latest expression of concern about the stability of digital data. Relying exclusively on magnetic media can be a fool’s gamble. Concerns about e-data has touched the magazine world as well, with [...]
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Acid Mix
03.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAcido Surtido is a remarkable and lovely poster/magazine published in Argentina by a small editorial team with support from the Ministry of Culture. Printing only 2000 copies, I feel fortunate that I have had the opportunity to review a nearly complete run of the stunning mag. In some ways, AS is similar to Lumpen (which [...]
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Skin Deep
New Beauty (“The Wold’s Most Unique [sic] Beauty Magazine”) is not new—the glam book out of Florida has been around for a year—but its alliance with Borders is. NB and the retail giant have teamed up to market the “Beauty Box”—a collection of beauty and skin care products that come packed with the magazine in [...]
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Times Again
There’s been a bit of interest around the recent NYT Magazine post—particularly overseas where the Magazine isn’t a ubiquitous component (along with lox, bagel and coffee) of Sunday morning. So, I’ve posted a few more pages to give a broader look at how issues are structured and art directed.
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In the Ether, Off the racks, Shameless self-promotion
Monkey Business
If there are things an American magazine designer shouldn’t see, Monkey is certainly on the list. My essay on the new digital magazine from Dennis (the folks responsible for Maxim, FHM, The Week, etc.) is now up on AIGA Voice. I argue that Monkey is appalling but is here to fore the most convincing attempt [...]
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Lump Some
You see magazines you like, you see magazines you don’t like so much, but how often do you see a publication that makes your heart go pitter-pat, pitter-pat with excitement? For me at least, Lumpen, a magazine out of Chicago is one such publication, made all the more thrilling because it’s a member of an [...]
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[Few] Answers
I have an article on the new Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati in the current issue of Print Magazine. My first draft of the article, which was roughly 20,000 words too long, had a brief passage on Answers Magazine—alas, one of the casualties of the editing process. Answers in Genesis owns both the museum [...]
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Pudding Heads
The New York Times Magazine’s “Consumed” column about Print Gocco a few weeks ago sent me on a trip down memory lane that started on Google and ended with Pudding—the only magazine printed on a Gocco. For those who never came across the device, Goccos were small silk-screen printers, cleverly engineered for the needs of [...]
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The Children’s Cursade
Once in a while, I find myself thinking about children’s magazines. This is in part due to where I live. There are several kiddie books within an easy commute of my house, and sometimes they need art directors. It also has to do with having my own school-agers—I’ve spent a lot of time in front [...]
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