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05.22.12posted by
The Editors

Cover of the Day: Tuesday Edition

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world.

TV Guide, May 21, 2012

Design Director: Gloria Pantell

Creative Director: Rose Fiorentino

Illustrator: Charis Tsevis

Photograph: David Johnson/Fox

Covers

05.22.12posted by
Josh Klenert

Digital Buzz Replacing Newsstand Buzz?

May 21, 2012 may not go down in cover history the same way the week TIME and Newsweek both featured a young Bruce Springsteen on their covers -- but it could be noted both pubs continuted a recent trend of buzzworthy covers.

In this wired world, the pressure for a cover to "pop" has become more important in the digital space rather than the traditional, physical newsstand. Time, Newsweek and Bloomberg Businessweek have all been seeing success with this formula.

The New York Times reported about the trend over the weekend. Of the Time breast-feeding cover, they said:

"We had a cover that captured lightning in a bottle," said Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time. "It's obviously a story that hit a nerve."

A Time spokeswoman said the breast-feeding cover was its best-selling issue this year, and Time doubled the number of subscriptions typically ordered in a week.

Taking their cues from digital counterparts, magazines are as interested in hitting nerves on social media as on the newsstand. The Time cover left an even more impressive mark online. On the day after the cover appeared, terms related to the cover were four out of the top five searches on Google. In the eight days after its publication, the cover was mentioned over 50,000 times on Twitter, and the magazine's Twitter followers spiked. Time also received 43,000 likes on Facebook.

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Redesigns

05.21.12posted by
The Editors

The New Brides

Creative Director, Cybele Grandjean, has been working on this redesign since December. The May re-launch issue of Brides is on newsstands now.
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Cover of the Day

05.21.12posted by
The Editors

Cover of the Day: Monday Edition

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world.

The New York Times Magazine, April 22, 2012

Design Director: Arem Duplessis

Art Director: Gail Bichler

Illustrator: Clang

In Memoriam

05.16.12posted by
Patrick Mitchell

LA Times Magazine Shutting Down

Nearly three years after the LA Times Magazine was removed from control of the business end of the paper and put back under the Los Angeles Times' editorial umbrella, the monthly pub is being shut down. FishbowlLA spoke with the mag's editor, Nancie Clare, who told us that the upcoming June issue will be the magazine's last.

"I think it's fair to say there were revenue issues," she tells us. "It's still a tough economic climate, especially for print. I don't think they got rid of us because they don't like us."

The mag's staff of seven will be let go. There's no indication if positions will be available for them in other sections of the paper.

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Cover of the Day

05.16.12posted by
The Editors

Cover of the Day: Wednesday Edition

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world.

LiFO (Greece), May 4, 2012

Creative Director: Stathis Mitropoulos*

*according to Google translate.

New+Notable

05.14.12posted by
The Editors

Snuggle Up with Your Work

If you love your job so much you hate to leave it at the office, well, now you can take it home and sleep with it (Provided you work at Time, Esquire, Vogue, or Playboy). These 100% cotton pillowcases put you on the cover the minute you hit the sack.

Get them at Infmetry. See the collection after the jump.

Cover of the Day

05.14.12posted by
The Editors