June 2008

The Archives

• Misc.

  On Vacation

  06.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Designing Magazines is on break until July 6.

• Art Direction

  Fooled again

  06.26.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I bought this magazine a few months ago at the B&N in Clarendon, Va., intending to write about the Australian business quarterly. Oh, I might have made one of my typical snotty comments—something along the lines of how fast can Fast be if it only publishes four times annually—but I generally thought the design was [...]

• Off the racks

  Church of the Poison Mind

  06.24.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 [...]

• Art Direction, Redesigns

  Hollywood Noir

  06.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  HL, or Hollywood Life is a hybrid celebrity/fashion magazine—two topics that leave me colder than a mafia hit man doing wet work in Anchorage—but it’s hard not to be seduced by HL’s stunning redesign, which premiered this month. What makes HL so spectacular is the photography, and what makes the photography so good, is lie [...]

• Art Direction, New Launches

  A fleeting….

  06.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  What is Glimpse? I’ve been trying to figure that out. At first, I thought it was the clearest evidence that Good had been certified big league—having spawned this knockoff from the deep-pocketed National Geographic Association. But, Glimpse is not quite Good (in more ways than one, actually). Nor is it quite a knock-off of Co-Op [...]

• Off the racks

  Zendik

  06.10.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  In 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 [...]

• Misc.

  Grand Reopening Business

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Premiere Business, which I panned last summer is now back with a second volume, which also happens to be a second issue. The good news? They decided to commission some real photography for this one rather than relying on stock. The bad news? It still has an editorial mission along the lines of “Hey kids, [...]

• In the Ether, On the racks, Trend Spotting

  Penny pinching

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The editors at Budget Travel are awfully proud of their just-published 10th anniversary issue. In a statement in the June issue, they congratulate themselves heartily on their forward thinking. And, a flack from the magazine sent me a free copy along with an offer to speak to one of the self-satisfied editors myself. If Budget [...]

• Art Direction, In the Ether

  Covers and Cash

  06.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I missed this when it originally ran but Far Out Brussel [sic] Sprout has a nice reported post on the rarefied and expensive world of national celebrity newsstand covers.

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