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Emily Oberman Named Pentagram Partner

Emily Oberman, a partner in the design firm Number 17, has been named a partner at mega-design firm Pentagram in New York. Known for her work on the Saturday Night Live graphics, Oberman, along with partner Bonnie Siegler, has also been behind the design of Benetton's Colors magazine, Lucky, and Newsweek.


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Patty Alvarez, New AD at Money Magazine

Patty Alvarez has been appointed the new Art Director at Money Magazine. Since leaving her post as art director of Newsweek in 2009, Patty has worked for Cooking Light, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Fortune.

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Tom Alberty, New DD at New York Magazine

Tom Alberty has been appointed the new Design Director for New York Magazine, filling the spot left vacant when Chris Dixon left last fall for the DD spot at Vanity Fair. Alberty has been at GQ with Design Director Fred Woodward since 2004, most recently promoted to Art Director there in 2010.


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Emily Kehe, New DD for Fortune

Emily Kehe has been promoted to the top spot at Fortune and is the new Design Director there, filling the spot left open when John Korpics left for ESPN The Magazine.


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Tom Bodkin Promoted to Deputy ME at The NY Times

While we were shaking off our holiday food coma, Media Decoder reported yesterday that Tom Bodkin, longtime Design Director for The New York Times, has been promoted by new Executive Editor Jill Abramson to Deputy Managing Editor, Design, for the paper. Abramson's note naming Bodkin as "one of my most valued and trusted masthead advisers" can be read in full here.


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Anna Alexander, New PD at dwell

Anna Alexander has been named the Photo Director at dwell. She had been Deputy Photo Editor at WIRED.


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Judith Puckett-Rinella, New DP at Vanity Fair

Judith Puckett-Rinella has been named the new Director of Photography at Vanity Fair with Design Director Chris Dixon. She has been Senior Photo Editor at T, The New York Times Style Magazine.


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