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Behind the Scenes: ESPN The Magazine Recreates Iconic Music Covers

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Cooking Light's 25th Anniversary Issue

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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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Behind the scenes with Editions designer David Robinson

Editions, the highly anticipated magazine App produced by AOL, Mobile has just hit the App store boasting the tag line "The Magazine that Reads You". It's the first digital magazine I know of that integrates tagging of a user's interests and maps content to those choices offering up a unique personalized magazine every day. Recently I got to sit down with David Robinson, Head of UX & Mobile Design for AOL to ask him a few questions about the process from a designers point of view.… MORE

Magazine Giveaway!

This is for those of you who have that extra storage space out in Jersey, or upstate: tomorrow, Saturday, June 25 from 12noon to 2pm, it's a magazine giveaway bonanza. Jeff Glendenning's closed-up shop and heading west, to Portland, OR in fact, and is looking to be sure that all his beloved old issues find a good home. Can you help? Are you looking for copies of
>> (90s) Rolling Stone
>> (90s) Wallpaper
>> The FACE (circa 2000)
>> The NY Times Mag (2001-
>> New York (2003-
+ plenty more? If so, head on over to 208 W 29, #601 (map here) on Saturday from 12noon to 2pm and grab all you can. Free to good homes. And you people are good homes.

Seattle Met Magazine Flash Mob Cover

Seattle Met magazine art director Benjamen Purvis organized a flash mob for the latest cover of their 100 Reason to Love Seattle issue. The cover photo was taken from a helicopter as the crowd of 250 people mobbed below in the city's Gas Works Park. It's a great original idea; a welcome break from the countless formatted "best of" covers that city and regional magazines do every year. Purvis is doing some highly creative work at Seattle Met. Take a look at a couple examples of his energetic, polished design.… MORE

The Best of MagCulture.com

Our favorite magazine info website, MagCulture, has published a newsprint compilation of the best of their first four years of posting, MagCulture.com/Paper. It's a 16-page color tabloid on quality newsprint, with excerpts and links from 74 stories posted on the site since February 2006. You can order it here. MagCulture is a great site with frequent updates on magazines of all kinds, with an emphasis on the UK, where its founder, Jeremy Leslie, is based. It you want to stay on top of the latest news in publication, website, and digital design, it's essential daily reading.

Time for a tiny format for newsweeklies

I've always been a fan of the format of 50s newsweekly. Quick, a digest-sized celebrity and fast news magazine that was published from 1949-1953. Quick was tiny in size, just 4 1/2 x 6 inches (considerably smaller than the Reader's Digest and Jet sizes of today), and it promoted the fact that readers could " carry it in your pocket or your purse...and read it wherever you are." Like the name says, articles were short and fast; it was a highly portable read. The cover designs started out with black and white photos and a single background color, but soon moved to full-color celebrity photo portraits. Quick always promoted itself as a "news weekly," and carried a mix of current events and a heavy dose of celebrity news and lifestyle updates.… MORE

Premiere Issues

Premiere Issues, Archive of Magazine Firsts, is a smart, simple, well-designed website featuring the covers of over 200 debut issues of magazines, ranging from Communication Arts to Ray Gun to Good, with many lesser-known publications as well. The brainchild of designer Danielle Huthart, the site was launched in 2002 and has been consistently updated and upgraded since. In addition to covers, there are credits and mission statements for each magazine. Huthart, who lives and works in Hong Kong at Whitespace studio, describes her motivation in starting the site: "I had already amassed a collection of first issues, and I thought it would be fun to share these with others. I love documenting and clearly I love communication and design. The site is my tribute to all the hard work and energy that goes into the creation of a magazine."… MORE

The design of Gourmet magazine

After Gourmet magazine closed down on October 5, we asked the art staff for some of their favorite feature spreads and covers from the past couple years. Although the covers of Gourmet often garnered the most attention, the insides of the magazine were brilliant and sparkling as well, and received much acclaim and many awards. Here are four covers and 10 beautiful feature openers from Gourmet. Creative director: Richard Ferretti; art director: Erika Oliveira.… MORE