March 2008
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Art Direction, In the Ether
In this corner…
03.21.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsMagazine Culture notes a recent Mark Newman piece in Folio about the art director/edi….er excuse me, I mean the editor/art director relationship. It seems the editor is always right. As you might expect, there’s a bit of foot stomping about the piece in art directorial circles—at least I think that’s what it is. As we [...]
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Off the racks
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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On the racks
Recapitations
Photoshop Disasters writes with humor about digital flim-flam, including the current cover of Blender, which brings us the head of Britney Spears. Still, you have to admire the tasteless audacity of the coverline: “Britney Spears Has Lost Her Kids, Her Fans, Her Underwear…and Her Mind HOW WILL IT END?” In a puddle of Red Bull, [...]
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Trend Spotting
The Front
Details body+soul Esquire Gourmet For a while now, Details has had an usual first page for their newsbrief section. While the standard newsfront is the home of the most newsworthy, best, or meatiest of the short items that make up a FOB, Details tore their traditional-style lead down and replaced it with a page of [...]
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Misc.
Search and Destroy
Sorry about the paucity of posts lately—deadlines are kicking my ass. I should be back to a full schedule next week, including pieces on some of the cool magazines I’ve received lately. In the mean time, Search and Destroy discusses online editions.
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The Stacks
….or Perish!
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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