December 2007

The Archives

• Misc.

  Winter Break

  12.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Designing Magazines is on holiday until January 4.

• Classics

  Twin sons of different mothers?

  12.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We close up Germanica week at Designing Magazines with a look at a 1965 Der Spiegel which has a design suspiciously similar to the look Time sported through the earlier half of the last decade—linear layout throughout—with one story flowing into the next, diminutive Futura headlines, and identically unwavering three-column grids, as in these spreads [...]

• Process

  It’s poetry in numbers

  12.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Great infographics make dry but illuminating data compellingly and viscerally visual—even The Economist knows that.

• Art Direction, On the racks

  Die Zeit

  12.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Die Zeit is one of the world’s most respected newspapers from both a journalistic and design standpoint (full disclosure: Mario Garcia who handled its redesign is interviewed in Designing Magazines) but I didn’t know that the weekly paper also publishes several magazines, including Zeit Wissen, which I came across at one of several DC newsstands [...]

• Process

  MacPhotoEdit

  12.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m not an early adopter by nature—I always figured let them discover the lead paint and little magnets that stick to each other in your digestive tract on someone else’s deadline—but the latest version of Large Ferocious Cat came with my new iMac last month so I took the plunge. The new system’s biggest benefit [...]

• On the racks

  Bastard measures

  12.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I recently received the second issue of ykky, an elegantly-designed English-language tabloid from Sweden. With all the frivolous anniversary issues one finds these days (Rolling Stone just devoted a whole issue to the Wah-Wah pedal’s ’40th) it’s nice to see a magazine commemorating something meaningful. In this issue, ykky celebrates “water,” which is, (I think,) [...]

• Magazines of Mystery

  The opposite of an Inflight Magazine?

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Every once in a while you come across a magazine so specialized that it just takes your breath away—how wonderful when it’s a consumer title to boot. Airports of the World, which sits on the old stump at the crossroad of airplane and architecture geekdom is one such glossy, which I couldn’t bring myself to [...]

• New Launches

  In Living Color

  12.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  4c is a new English-language annual from Belgium dedicated to the proposition that what’s important in life is only skin-deep. This is appropriate I suppose—the glossy, a new foray into publishing from Techni-Coat International, a manufacturer of plastic coatings knows the value of the superficial. If there is no there there in 4c—the magazine bounces [...]

• New Launches

  Personal Development

  12.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Unlike most glossies, Personal Development is not saddled with editors, designers, ad reps or business people. Instead, their masthead lists “Directors of Wisdom,” a “Mistress of Imagination,” a “Guru of Finance,” a few “Wisdom Wordsmiths,” some “Superheroes” (including both “Superman” and “Wonder Woman”) and a “Director of the Canvas.” I don’t know, perhaps all the [...]

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