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Meanwhile ... In Charleston

Garden and Gun is way more than just a provocative magazine title. Describing itself as "the soul of the south" the Garden & Gun brand which has a national audience of nearly half a million readers has fast become known for its great writing, stunning photography and remarkable design. A 2010 nomination by ASME for General Excellence (circulation 100,000 - 250,000) capped an extraordinary few years for the magazine and its staff and firmly announced to the world that the new south, with its sporting culture, food, music, literature art and ideas dun come to town!

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Good Cents

The Lincoln penny has a new verso, only the third since its introduction in 1909. I made a line-up of our legal tender and was surprised by what I saw; a brief history of the American economy as writ by the U.S. Mint.
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Milton Glaser Votes

Andrea Bernstein just interviewed Milton Glaser on The Brian Lehrer Show (listen here). Her guests included Julie Lasky and others discussing the design of the new voting ballots. Milton Glaser disliked the new ballot design so much, he offered to redesign it for the Board of Elections. What do you think?  

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Behind The Design: Ford's Theater

While producing the 2009 December issue of W, a peek at an afternoon's worth of paste board madness for an opening spread featuring Tom Ford and Colin Firth photographed by Nigel Parry. Video after the jump...… MORE

The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?

We all know what the process is like to get out a massive redesign. The meetings... The designs... Presentations... Focus groups... More designs... Launch. 
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Back To The "Drew"ing Board...

In between all the crazy preparation for Gala 44 (and trust me when I say you WON'T want to miss this one,) as a recurring item (and due to popular demand,) here is one of my latest design process vids of an opening spread featuring Drew Barrymore photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott from the April 2009 issue of W magazine. Looking back, I had an idea of where the design would end up, but wanted to explore a few options first.
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Design Challenges at Google

In this month's issue of WIRED, I was lucky enough to write a little piece about constraint in design and used the Google homepage as an example. Today, I came across a really great post from Doug Bowman, visual design lead at Google. Today is his last day with the company, and he explains some of the challenges he faced working in an engineer-focused culture, including this little gem:
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Say It Loud.

As some of you may had noticed, back in September I'd posted an animation displaying my design process based on a feature about Anne Hathaway. Below is another short vid documenting my typographic design movements for a fashion story photographed by David Sims in the current (February 2009) issue of W featuring French soprano, Alexandra Deshorties as she channels the gamut of extreme human emotions that are represented in opera.

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SPD PUB 43 Design Annual Has (Almost) Arrived

Yep, that's right. The hotly anticipated SPD PUB 43 Design Annual will be reaching our shores from Singapore come mid/late December 2008! As it's chock full of the most innovative, exciting editorial design work from 2007--including the Magazine of the Year Winners and the Members' Choice winner--you will definitely want to get your hands on this one as soon as it hits the SPD offices!