December 2012 Archives

The Year in Pop Culture - All on 1 Cover

It's that time of year again, when Entertainment Weekly comes out with their Best & Worst issue.  Over the past 6 years EW has managed to squeeze in all of the pop culture highs and lows onto one single cover.  Take a look at 2012 and a trip down memory lane with the previous covers after the jump. … MORE

2012 Poll: Best of Cover of the Day - THE FINALS!

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Photos From the SPD Holiday Bash

SPD celebrated the holidays last Thursday with their annual Holiday Bash.  Read the full recap HERE and take a look at all the photos from the night after the jump.  … MORE

2012 Poll: Best of Cover of the Day (Round 4)

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2012 Poll: Best of Cover of the Day (Round 3)

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Holiday Recap + CS6 Raffle Winner Announced!

The night was quite a bender as many members and friends of SPD as well as many new ones joined us to toast the holidays and enjoy the good times. Captured moments from the shenanigans will be posted in the near future here and on Facebook, so check back in!

Congrats to raffle winning ticket holder # 070 for the Adobe Creative Suite 6. Reach out to mail@spd.org by January 15th to claim your prize. You must provide the matching ticket.

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A huge thanks to our friends that helped make the evening's good times possible: Hotel Chantelle, Mixologist Todd Richman of Sidney Frank, Dark Horse, Radeberger, Adobe and the awesome guys from LED Photo Booth that kept us hashtagging #spdholidayparty with their Instagram photo booth all night!
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And to the volunteers that keep things running smoothly: Courtney Sultan, Nicole Martino, Tess Barber, Juliann Gates and photography by Michele Byrne.

And thanks to your generosity, toys will be enjoyed by needy children via Education Alliance.

Don't forget to start getting those entries together for the PUB 48 Early Bird Deadline, TODAY, December 21st.  Download the Call For Entries here, then enter by clicking the purple button on the right that reads Click Here to Enter PUB 48.
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And for those of you that need to join or renew (great discounts on competition fees!) you can easily do that here.
Stay tuned for the next SPD "More Fun More Often" event!
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Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

2012 Poll: Best of Cover of the Day (Round 2)

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People Magazine covers Newtown

People Magazine's Design Director Andrea Dunham on their extraordinary year end cover.

Dunham: This is the last cover of the year. It was supposed to be our annual year end issue called "The Best and Worst of 2012": a big fun entire issue dedicated to mirth and escape. But last Friday there was no escaping the brutal horror and heartbreak of the senseless loss of a staggering number of our babies and loved ones, as it became instantly clear each victim was one of our own families in our hearts and will remain so forever. Therefore the editors of People and myself as Design Director, with heavy hearts but with all genuine good intention, made our cover story a mourning but celebration of the lives each of the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary. We hope that those of you who trust our integrity will get past the grief you'll feel at the sight of these innocent young faces, and read our very moving portraits of survivors, extraordinary heroism, unfathomable heartbreak and the beautiful lives they led. We wont forget them. I certainly won't be able to."

2012 Poll: Best of Cover of the Day (Round 1)

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world. Its time to choose your favorite of the year! Round 1 starts with covers from January, February, and March (in alphabetic order).  Look for Round 2, 3, and 4 in the coming days. Then come the finals!
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2012: A Note from SPD President Neil Jamieson

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Time Magazine Person of the Year

Time, December 31, 2012-January 7, 2013
Photograph: Nadav Kander
Design director: D.W. Pine

The Top 10 Vintage Magazine Covers of 2012

This is the time of year for list-making. Be sure to vote in the SPD Best Cover of the Day 2012 Poll, which will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, we've put together a collection of our 10 favorite vintage magazine covers that we saw during 2012. We weren't looking for a greatest-of-all-time batch of covers....just things that we thought were really cool, relevant, or that we had never seen before. The covers in this set date from 1916-1997, and all of them look just as fresh now as they did when they were first published. Thanks to Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest, there were so many great vintage magazine covers floating around this year, that we've gathered 10 more here. 2012 was certainly an amazing year for contemporary cover design, but it was also the year that vintage magazine covers, through social media, exploded with their range and availability.

(Above): Drum, February 1955
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Holiday Bash 12/20/12

It's already holiday time which means one thing: More fun. More often.

Join SPD for our annual Holiday Bash on Thursday, December 20th at Hotel Chantelle (92 Ludlow St NYC) in their lower level lounge: SGT's for hours of drinks (wine! beer! cocktails!), food, great tunes and good times.

Members: $15/Advance, $20/door
Non-Members: $30/Advance, $40/door < not a member? JOIN NOW.

Special cover charge: Fall's been a rough one for many, so this year we'd like to collect new, unwrapped toys and distribute them as holiday gifts for less fortunate children in the community. So if you have anything to contribute, please bring it along! You'll get half-off the cover charge!

Get your tickets (save money! easily expense this!) CLICK HERE!
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Celebrity Santa Magazine Covers

Our favorite part of the holiday season is looking at Xmas magazine covers. This year we're celebrating magazine covers featuring celebrities dressed in Santa Claus hats (and costumes). Check out this gallery of fine Yule tidings, featuring Snoop Dogg, Burt Reynolds, Bella Abzug, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, and of course, Sonny Liston!
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Food For Thought

Our Food for Thought  Speaker Series event on December 10th, held at the Helen Mills Theatre, was a great success. Our panel consisted of a top food magazine editor, creative directors, and photographer. The evening was full of great presentations by our panelists and a very lively debate about the current state, and future, of magazine brands in a multiplatform world. A special thanks to event photographer Matt Monath, and to Speaker Committee members Joe Zeff and Peter Hemmel for their tireless work on this event! 

See photos from the event HERE

MODERATOR:

Francesca Messina, Creative Director, Architectural Record, GreenSource, ENR, SNAP, Executive Committee Secretary, The Board of Directors of SPD 

PANELISTS:

Anabel Gondelles, Design Director, Food + Mobile, The Food Network

Stephen Scobel, Creative Director, Food & Wine

Anabel Gondelles, Design Director, Food + Mobile, The Food Network

Tanya Steele,  Editor-in-Chief Epicurious.com, Gourmet.com, Gourmet Live

Melanie Dunea, photographer

 

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHER:

Matt Monath  

www.MattMonath.com

www.Facebook.com/MattMonathPhoto

www.MattMonath.Tumblr.com

www.Twitter.com/MattMonath

Matt@MattMonath.com

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Still on the hunt for that perfect gift for the Art Director or Photo Editor in your life?  Well, look no further!  We've gathered some favorites that will be a great addition to your bookshelf.  Plus, you can buy them all now at our online SPD Book Store.   For a limited time, readers can also get a special discount on SPD Annuals HERE.  Just use promo code: holiday at checkout.
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My SPD: Joe Zeff, President, Joe Zeff Design

Cover of the Day: Monday Edition

The Huffington iPad Magazine

Don't sleep on the Huffington iPad magazine! That's my message to everyone for the holiday season. Huffington just marked their six-month anniversary of publication, and the now-free weekly app has become a powerful example of original tablet publishing. I've been doing a bunch of iPad consulting lately, and Huffington is always the first app I point to as something that is smart, original, engaging, and fully utilizing the power of the platform. Creative director Josh Klenert and his ace team have been creating some brilliant imagery and design, tapping a stellar crew of illustrators, photographers, and infographic-makers. It's been fun to watch the Huffington design morph and mature, especially since it's not based on an existing print publication format.

The app's cover design fuses the sensibility of gonzo altweeklies with the cool, modern, restrained look of the Dirk Barnett-era Newsweek, plus a dash of Arthur Hochstein's pop-Photoshop Time magazine covers. And the cover imagery swings from illustration to photograph to photo-illustration, with a constantly revolving collection of artists and photographers. In an era when newsweeklies are dropping like flies, it's inspiring to see someone still experimenting with the format, especially as a tablet-only app. I have no sense of the long-term viability of Huffington as a business proposition, but as a project it's on the cutting-edge of tablet content creation.
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Unsung Heroes 6 Clips: Joe Pugliese

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My SPD: Nathalie Kirsheh, Design Director, Details

Learn more about MySPD and how to join HERE

News Corp Shutting Down "The Daily" iPad Publication

News Corp. is ending its "bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation" and shutting down The Daily -- launched only back in February of 2011.

"As part of a digital restructuring initiative, the company will cease standalone publication of The Daily iPad app on December 15, 2012, though the brand will live on in other channels. Technology and other assets from The Daily, including some staff, will be folded into The Post."

The last issue of The Daily will publish on December 15th.

Remembering Photographer Ken Regan

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