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‘Magazine design’ archive

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Dec. 1, 2011: How to promote an iPad app

Magazine design guru Robert Newman — now the creative director of Reader’s Digest — is proud of his magazine’s iPad app, of course. But he’s also proud of the video they put together to stir up buzz about that app. The animation was created by Alan Becker. Find more of his work here. If you find yourself with a sudden [...]

Nov. 25, 2011: For your consideration…

Check out the cover of the current issue of the New Yorker: The brilliant illustration is by Christoph Niemann. You might remember him from this cover from earlier this year. He illustrated an opinion column for the New York Times Magazine from 2008 to earlier this year. Find those archived here. His book, I Lego N.Y., shows classic New York [...]

Nov. 22, 2011: Kaitlin Yarnall on work flow at National Geographic magazine

Kaitlin Yarnall, deputy creative director of National Geographic magazine, recently talked with Sajeev Kumar T.K. about work flow at National Geographic: Q. What’s your method of planning a work? And how it helps you to reach the goal? A. Once a story is approved at NGM there is usually a story team meeting that includes a photo editor, text editor, [...]

Nov. 15, 2011: Michigan State’s Karl Gude looks at GOP campaign logos

AdWeek magazine this week analyzed the logos for the Republican presidential campaigns and asked three noted designers  their opinions of each. One of those designers is none other than Karl Gude, former graphics director for United Press International, the New York Daily News, the National sports daily, Associated Press and Newsweek and currently an instructor at Michigan State University. AdWeek [...]

Nov. 14, 2011: A look at two controversial magazine covers

Let’s take a quick look at two magazine covers that have stirred up a bit of controversy. One ran and one did not. — CHARLIE HEBDO First up: Charlie Hebdo, a satirical left-wing weekly based in Paris, France. You may have heard about this a couple of weeks ago. Charlie Hebdo announced that its Nov. 2 issue would be guest-edited [...]

Nov. 9, 2011: Would YOU draw 1,028 little figures for a magazine cover?

I wouldn’t. I’d probably draw 20 or 30, tops, and then use the clone tool. But illustrator Tim Enthoven would. He drew 1,028 separate figures for the cover of the next issue of the New York Times Magazine. That cover is today’s “Cover of the Day” by the Society of Publication Designers. Find their post here and find the SPD [...]

Nov. 3, 2011: Maggie Voss of Lufkin, Texas, moves to an Austin publishing company

Maggie Voss of the Lufkin, Texas, Daily News switched jobs recently. She tells us: I just finished my first full week at Acres USA, a publishing company based in Austin. We publish books and a monthly magazine catered toward organic farmers and those interested in sustainable eco-agriculture. I kind of dove right in, as my first week was their monthly [...]

Oct. 29, 2011: Saturday’s World Series pages (3)

Man, was I sorry to see this World Series end. This one felt truly magical, despite the fact that I’m not a huge fan of either team. (I’m a Braves fan. As you know, the Braves tanked in the final month of the season, allowing the Cardinals to take away their Wild Card playoff spot.) __________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 6, [...]

Oct. 18, 2011: Laugh for the day (1)

The cover of the new issue of the New Yorker depicts the flip side of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The illustration is by Barry Blitt… …whose all-time claim to fame is probably this controversial cover from a couple of years ago: A few more of Blitt’s New Yorker covers:       He also drew the cover to my [...]

Oct. 10, 2011: Cool gatefold tribute to Steve Jobs by Adweek magazine

On my way home from the Society for News Design workshop in St. Louis eight days ago, I ran into my former colleague Nick Mrozowski at a concourse sandwich shop. Nick is a former designer for the Virginian-Pilot, the founding art director of Lisbon, Portugal’s award-winning tabloid i, and now the creative director of Adweek magazine in New York City. [...]

Oct. 10, 2011: No butts about it: Sports Illustrated apologizes for headline (3)

A letter to the editor in the current (Oct. 10) issue of Sports Illustrated: Poor Judgment My oldest son is a huge Jets fan, so when I first saw the image of Mark Sanchez on your Sept. 19 cover, I knew he would be thrilled. However, when I read the cover’s headline my heart sank. I couldn’t have been more [...]

Oct. 7, 2011: An interesting how-to for a complex business graphic

Check out this complex graphic from the upcoming issue of Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek magazine. Click for a larger view: According to the artist — BusinessWeek graphics director Jennifer Daniel –  that graphic shows… …how U.S. corporations lobby for tax breaks by hiring lots of former congressional staffers to lobby for them. It’s not enough that Jennifer posted it in her blog. She [...]

Sept. 24, 2011: Newsstand alert: Check out the new National Geographic

Check out the cover of the October issue of National Geographic. UPDATE: Here’s a nice scan. Click for a huge look. Oh, and note the little speech balloon at the upper right of the illo. That’s by the Virginian-Pilot‘s Sam Hundley. Sam has done some work before for National Geographic. He used to illustrate a monthly column, but that gig [...]

Sept. 23, 2011: Indiana student Larry Buchanan to write ‘visual column’ for McSweeney’s

Larry Buchanan — a recent graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington and art director of Inside Magazine – placed as a runner-up in a writing contest sponsored by McSweeney‘s. As a result, Larry will become a regular columnist for the magazine’s online edition. Larry posts to his Facebook wall today: Know that awkward transition from college to real life? I’m [...]

Sept. 4, 2011: Even in this economy, there is still room for a new product (1)

At least, that’s the case this week in South Africa. The new product: A new weekly news magazine called NewsNow. Its specializes in telling very short, very snappy stories using techniques damned near to what we here in the U.S. might consider alternative story forms. It’s being marketed as a very fast read for people on the go. Lots of [...]

Aug. 31, 2011: Gaddafi with the wind

Surely by now you’ve seen the cover of the new issue of Time magazine featuring Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Yes, that’s by illustrator Tim O’Brien. The same guy who did the X’d out portrait of Osama bin Laden a couple months ago.   In his blog, Tim writes how a… …short e-mail from TIME‘s [design director] D.W. Pine read, ” are [...]

Aug. 29, 2011: Too far with a photo illustration, perhaps? (4)

The topic for the new issue of ESPN the magazine: Would Michael Vick have had all the troubles he had over the past few years if he had been born white? The piece is interesting, provocative and, really, all it should be. But here’s how the magazine illustrated this story: Yikes! Well, I hope they played it small. Hmm. As [...]

July 25, 2011: U.K. Guardian mistakenly runs gag N.Y. Post page (1)

Vanity Fair magazine has been posting a number of what it calls “Fauxsclusives”… what the New York Post might look like if the Post were covering the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandal the same way it covers everything else. Here are three examples, from July 19… … from later in the day on June 19… … and from last Friday, June [...]

July 7, 2011: Robert Newman named creative director of Reader’s Digest

Magazine design guru Robert Newman — who’s spent the past four years as a consultant — has been named creative director of Reader’s Digest magazine. Folio magazine’s Stefanie Botelho reports that Robert has been consulting with Reader’s Digest since December. She writes: During his stint as consulting director, Newman designed the cover for the book Life: The Reader’s Digest version, [...]

June 30, 2011: Vanity Fair responds to Newsweek’s Diana cover

Back on Monday, I showed you the cover to the new issue of Newsweek, in which Photoshop art firm R. Mutt Studios showed us what Diana, Princess of Wales might have looked like had she lived to turn 50 this week. I called it revolting. Not many people have taken issue with that description. Vanity Fair responded yesterday: Is it [...]

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