September 2012 Archives

Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

Purvis, Pugliese and a Pitbull. ("The Process" Special)

The key to great editorial design: collaboration. Runner's World D.D. Benjamen Purvis, and photographer Joe Pugliese reveal their Process... … MORE

Wired US's Design Issue: A Preview

Its been a while since we've featured the great work of Brandon Kavulla and his team out in San Francisco on spd.org, so when they sent us this cool short previewing their October design issue, we figured we should probably throw them a bone! Check it out after the jump! Enjoy! (Great work as ever guys!)… MORE

Cover of the Day: Monday Edition

Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

Pop-Up Portfolio: Marshall McKinney

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Cover of the Day: Wednesday Edition

Creating Daily Magazine Covers at the Political Conventions

When Bloomberg decided to publish a daily magazine at the Republican and Democratic conventions this year, it was a natural choice for them to tap former Time art director Arthur Hochstein to be the creative force for their covers. Hochstein had done a stint doing covers for Businessweek while it was being redesigned by Richard Turley in 2010, and he also spent some time crafting covers for Tina Brown at Newsweek while Dirk Barnett was developing their new design. Norman Pearlstine, the chief content officer of Bloomberg, wanted covers that were distinctive, smart, and provocative, and done fast and with a limited budget. The visually striking photo-illustration style that Hochstein honed on countless Time covers was the perfect solution.

Hochstein shares some background on the creation of the convention covers, as well as showing off some great outtakes and rejects.
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The 50th Anniversary of the First George Lois Esquire Cover

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first cover that George Lois designed for Esquire, (October 1962), and Fast Company is making note of it in their new design issue and on their iPad app. This photograph of Lois holding his first Esquire cover, by Platon, appears exclusively in the October 2012 Fast Company iPad app issue. There are other great Lois portraits by Platon, and a conversation between the two on creativity and courage. And there's a brilliant video on the iPad app of Lois reciting the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin.'"

Fast Company creative director Florian Bachleda has unearthed a classic story about that first Lois cover, and the Esquire publisher's worried response.


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Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

Cover of the Day: Thursday Edition

Creative Director: D.W. Pine
Director of Photography: Kira Pollack
Art Director: Emily Crawford
Photo Director: Natalie Matutschovsky
Photographer: Peter Hapak… MORE

News You Can Use: The Photos!

Thanks to photographer Thaddeus Rombauer for his great work documenting the SPD News you can use event, gallery after the jump...… MORE

Cover of the Day: Classics Edition

"News You Can Use" Recap

SPD launched its 2012-13 Speaker Series last night with "News You Can Use," featuring the creative directors of TIME, Newsweek and Huffington in front of a full house at AOL/Huffington in New York City. … MORE

Barack Obama Illustrations

Last week we posted a collection of Mitt Romney illustrations. Now, we're giving equal time to illustrations of Barack Obama. Although most of the illustrations in this set are recent, we did dig back for a few published right after the 2008 elections. There are too many great Obama illustrations than can easily fit into one slideshow. We've gathered another giant gallery here on Facebook.

(Above): Illustration by Edel Rodriguez, for Essence
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Southern Living: Redesigning an Institution

Few brands in publishing have as dedicated a readership as the 46 year old regional lifestyle magazine Southern Living. So how do you go about evolving the design of brand with such reader loyalty...carefully...as Design Director Robert Perino explains... … MORE

Cover of the Day: Monday Edition

Rip Georges Kickstarts a New Mag

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Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

Mitt Romney Illustrations

Watching the Democratic Convention this week, we've heard that many people think a Mitt Romney Presidency will be very bad for women, gays, veterans, students, minorities, labor unions, the middle class, and more. But there's one group that Mitt Romney has already been a giant boon for: illustrators! Romney has inspired some great illustration over the past few months, and has been caricatured on the covers of The New Yorker, The New Republic, Huffington, and Rolling Stone, among others. Here's a collection of some of our favorite Mitt Romney illustrations. If you have more to contribute, please send them along and we'll add them to the slideshow.

(Above): Rolling Stone, illustration: Robert Grossman, art director: Joseph Hutchinson
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Cover of the Day: Wednesday Edition

Surfing + Espresso Bar + Apparel = Saturdays Surf

....and now a bi annual magazine!
We caught up with Colin Tunstall, one of the co founders of Saturdays Surf The downtown NYC surf shop on Crosby St (with new locations--the West Village, and their Tokyo flagship,) and talked to him about his pseudo return to publishing as the editor-in-chief role in their first issue of Saturdays Magazine.  while ringing in their 3rd anniversary. More after the jump...


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