April 2008
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Classics
Boing 747
The Institute for E-Readership and Counter-Factual Journalism Research at Poynter is at it again. For those unfamiliar with their work, the Institute looks at how society, reading, and journalism might be affected under various speculative scenarios. They are probably best know for the 2002 study which showed that had Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent had the [...]
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New Launches, On the racks
Buyer’s Remorse
04.24.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsreMarriage is the magazine for “Before, During, and Happily Ever After.” I suppose that “before, during and after” remarrying is not as broad a topic as “before, during and after the bris,” nor as weird as “before during and after the funeral,” but the cover lines, “Bride’s Dress Dilemma: Pouf or Posh?” “Today’s Mix and [...]
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Art Direction, Pages
Corn Syrup
I was attracted to this issue of Hi Fructose because it had the best (or possibly the only) use of chiaruscuro that I’ve seen recently on the cover of a newsstand magazine. Hi Fructose covers the naive-by-choice school of art making along with publications that include gallery- or illustration- focused books like Juxtapoz, Beautiful Decay, [...]
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New Launches
Parched…
04.18.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe editors of Canteen use the intro page of the second issue to bash some low hanging fruit—author Stephen King—based on his contention that the short story is currently moribund. Alas, the magazine does little to prove him wrong in the pages that follow. Nevertheless, I was quite taken with the elegant design of the [...]
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In the Ether
I say, rather
Ok, I got 30 out of a possible 34, enough for the hall of fame sure, but not nearly good enough considering all those Saturday nights I spent sitting around trying to figure out what some goddam font was while the cool kids were out having fun. To add insult to injury, the one that [...]
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On the racks
Missbehave
I wasn’t there at the eureka moment that spawned Missbehave [er, sic, maybe], but I imagine it went something like this: Editor: “We need something different….something like a magazine, but not like a magazine… something bold, yet decisive…..wild, frilly and feminine, yet sturdy and down to earth with machismo and swagger….a design that speaks Indo-European [...]
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Shameless self-promotion
Designing Magazines: The Rich, Emersive, Branded Experience
I’ve occasionally recommended books on this site and now they’re all (or at least most) in one place: Introducing Designing Magazines: The Store. Mainly a convenient place to archive referenced books, all titles in the main frame have come up on the blog, and are related specifically to editorial design and art direction. The current [...]
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In the Ether
What Becomes a Legend Most
04.11.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI did not join the chorus of designers calling for D. Scott Davis’s head on a pike when his company redesigned Paul Rand’s UPS logo in 2003. Designers produce—for the most part—ephemera: ads, news, and information—stuff that has a useful life, ages and is replaced. The sentiment in favor of a classic is understandable, but [...]
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New Launches
La fashionista Enfant
I’ve written before about the propensity for satire at my old alt-weekly. But one ill-fated attempt at mirth at someone else’s expense was a year-in-the-[not]-making spoof of the Washingtonian, a city magazine that, in my 11 years in DC, has cycled through the same yearly schedule of lowest-common-denominator content over and over (and over) again. [...]
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In the Ether
A Photo Editor
04.07.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsJoining the blog roll today (via RexBlog): A Photo Editor, a really nice site about the challenges and rewards of assigning imagery for a magazine. Exiting: The Magazineer—fallow since mid-February after a promising dozen posts.
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In the Ether
DigiMags
Alas, my April fool post deceived no one, but maybe because it was true. Via BladBlog: Digital Magazines have had their day, according to Drift magazine Editor Howard Swanwick who went substrate-only with the current issue of his webzine.
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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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Misc.
Headline of the Month
“The Revolution will Not Be Pasteurized.” (Deck: “Inside the raw-milk underground”)—Harper’s. A great headline? Without doubt, nevertheless I’m glad that I didn’t have to design a spread around it. Two mile-long words combined with four shorties makes for some inelegant breaks. Not that the highly formatted Harper’s cares about such things….
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Off the racks
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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