February 2008
The Archives
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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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Teaching
Pedagogy Redux
02.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI’ve added a few more links to the education page, though this batch may be of interest to a general reader too. Included are articles on magazines and magazine design by Greg Lindsay, David Carr, yours truly, and various AIGA Voice contributors.
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On the racks
Esquire Cares, Part II
Those of us who have kicked around publications for a while know that the letters page ain’t what it used to be. And, I’m not just talking about what appears in the magazine—though most glossies are printing fewer inches of reader reaction than in years past. Readers (and more importantly readers who write) no longer [...]
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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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Pages, Process
Esquire Cares, Part I
I wrote a while back that most magazines were not particularly concerned with that ambassador to the reader, the table of contents page. Still true—but Esquire is an exception to the rule. TOChinations at the magazine predate January’s redesign—the book has a history of putting collaged, structuralist, and sometimes even more whimsical arrangements on its [...]
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In the Ether
Poultry in Motion
Jessica Helfand takes on farming magazines, from 1878 to DJ Stout’s redesign of Dairy Today on Design Observer.
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Classics
Westvaco
A friend and colleague of mine, Anne Kerns (yes, other designers rib her about the name) of Anne Likes Red, offered me the opportunity to photograph a few of her old magazines. I have “Westvaco” by Bradbury Thompson, a few Avant Gardes, and some Ray Guns she said casually. Would they be of any interest [...]
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In the Ether, Teaching
Interview Magazine
I was reminded recently of an old Peter Cook and Dudley Moore routine (which would be judged hopelessly P.I. today) in which a one-legged man interviews to play the part of Tarzan in an upcoming movie. The casting director is uh, “sympathetic”: “Now your left leg, I like. I’ve got nothing against your left leg….the [...]
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Off the racks
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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Misc.
Happy Birthday to me
With this entry, Designing Magazines turns 100—100 posts that is—since the blog started in spring of 2007. It seem like one shouldn’t make too much of the anniversary (though of course gifts are always appreciated), still a few words are in order. When I started, I had no idea what a Technoratti rating was or [...]
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Classics
Wig Wag
Wig Wag’s 1988 launch came within a month of Spy’s, but the latter is better remembered. Spy is memorialized in books and on web sites, it’s editors have gone on to successful-publishing-careers, and you still hear its name mentioned in magazine and design circles. Wig Wag has (arguably been) nearly as influential, but it lives [...]
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Off the racks
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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Magazines of Mystery, On the racks
The Art Mystique
Clear Magazine blends form and title (if not necessarily function) about as well as possible with its current cover. A whisper-thin piece of frosted Mylar printed with nondescript artifacts of industry invites the reader to play peekaboo with the fashion plate underneath. The translucent cover is undoubtedly cool and intriguingly interactive. Less Clear is what [...]
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In the Ether
Ziner
Joining the blog roll today: The Magazineer, with design-aware reviews of US magazines.
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