September 2008

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• Custom Publishing

  TOCs of Mystery

  09.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I wrote a while back about Fashion Rocks the Condé annual that’s packed up with every magazine the company ships in September. What is FR? Mostly it’s a long advertisement for a television special of the same name—but judging from the ads and all the product placement it probably makes a few bucks too. I’m [...]

• Pages, Trend Spotting

  Tyrany of CMYK

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Back when I was a young magazine designer, folks used to talk about “builds” in between swiping at each other with their Xacto knives (all good fun of course). Now I know what you’re thinking, but there were no blocks or bricks involved—“build” is a color term. Say if you wanted a green, you’d build [...]

• Art Direction, Pages, Process

  When type won’t do

  09.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  SPD writes about this stunning Los Angeles cover on their blog. The piece is by illustrator/calligrapher Marian Bantjes—she inspired a lot of spectulation in my editorial design class last week, but for another one of her projects. The Vibe headline below, for a feature on Jay-Z  is just as eye-popping as an industrial LIghts and [...]

• Misc.

  Folio Madness

  09.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As a magazine designer, I take no small comfort in the decisions I don’t have to make—the signage that stays the same issue to issue, the consistent margins, the grid that remains my stalwart companion through the months and the pages. Anyone who’s taken paint to canvas knows that it’s the first few strokes that [...]

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