Fast News for November 9, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> It's Illustration Week in NYC! Be sure you're part of the official festivities: RSVP for the AI-AP party and Rock It Honey on Thursday at Angel Orensanz with all your favorite photographers and illustrators...

>> ...and elsewhere, illustrator Stephen Kroninger has a show of his 1980s experimental collages at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Many examples and background info here. Also on display at MIAD are 40 illustrations from the Society of Illustrators Illustration 52 annual...

>> Great new covers from Essence, Glamour, Rolling Stone, Mad, The New Yorker, i-D, Paper, and many more, at CoverJunkie.com...

>> U.S. News & World Report announces the end of its print edition (except for occasional special and college ranking issues)...