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Bazaar's Got a New Look

In the works since November, the eagerly anticipated Harper's Bazaar redesign hits newsstands soon. The cover (subscriber version, above) features a Terry Richardson photo of Gwyneth Paltrow. Former British Vogue CD Robin Derrick consulted on the new look.… MORE

Newsweek's New iPad App

Newsweek's newly re-launched iPad app "may represent what magazine apps will be like in 2012," says García Media's Mario García. "Moderation rules, reading mode is king, photos shine, and, well, you will find one bell and one whistle, not a dozen."… MORE

Seattle Re-Celebrates Its 1962 World Fair

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O.R.D.: Outdoor Retailer Daily

Matthew Bates, creative director of the Outdoor Group (which includes Backpacker magazine, among others), took a team of smart visual folks to the Outdoor Retailer trade convention in Salt Lake City to create a daily magazine/newsletter. Along with senior art director Bryan Nanista and photographer Ben Fullerton, Matthew designed and published four daily issues, complete with photo shoots done in a convention hallway on seamless. The first day's cover is pictured above, and the other three are after the jump.
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The Coverjunkie Covers Magazine

Coverjunkie, the cool website that features daily updates of magazine covers from around the world, has published a pop-up magazine devoted to the best covers of 2011. It's filled with almost 250 covers, plus interviews with noted publication designers like Arem Duplessis of The New York Times Magazine, Richard Turley of Bloomberg Businessweek, Matt Wiley of Port, Rodrigo Sanchez of Metropoli, and legendary Esquire cover art director George Lois (somehow an interview with me slipped in there, too....they must have needed to fill space.) Coverjunkie mastermind (and talented art director in his own right) Jaap Biemans has created one of the most exciting, brilliantly-conceived, and collectible publications of the year, one well-worth getting your hands on ASAP (and it's only $12).


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On the Ground: New Book Collection of 60s Underground Press

On the Ground is a great new book about the 1960s (and early 70s) underground press, edited by Sean Stewart, the mastermind behind Tumblr site Babylon Falling. The book is packed with reproductions of underground newspaper front pages, comics, graphics, and much more, all in color, and most not seen publicly in over 40 years. Represented are newspapers like the Berkeley Barb, Los Angeles Free Press, East Village Other, the Black Panther, and many more.  And there's a healthy dose of underground comics and comic book covers, too. In addition to the wonderful imagery, Stewart has collected an oral history of the time, interviewing former underground press editors, artists, and scene makers. On the Ground is a pure visual treat, and is our choice as our #1 holiday gift for friends and family.… MORE

Magazines on Fire

The Kindle Fire is set to debut on Tuesday with Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and "several thousand other apps including over 400 magazine and newspaper titles. With nine magazines (below), Conde Nast appears to have the largest collection ready for launch day. Other big titles include Reader's Digest, Hearst's Elle and Oprah, Time Inc's Fortune, People, and Time. Here's a rundown of magazines we've seen available on the Kindle Fire Newsstand in sync with the launch.… MORE

Boston magazine

The Boston Globe newspaper has been a fertile breeding ground for magazine designers. Richard Baker, Gail Anderson, Lynn Staley, and current Fortune design director Emily Kehe, among others, all cut their teeth in the Globe's newsroom. The latest Globe veteran to move to magazine design is Chin Wang, who has been the design director at Boston magazine since early 2010. Wang spent eight years at the Globe, designing everything from the weekend Metro section to the Sunday magazine. Since moving to Boston, Wang has given the magazine a sparkling new look, filled with powerful photos and illustrations and lots of graphic surprise and delight. Wang describes the magazine's look as "clean and elegant, inventive but not precious, clever but not too insider-y," and says about her staff that "what we don't have in budget, we make up for with enthusiasm and resourcefulness!"… MORE

New iPad Social Magazines from Yahoo and Google Expected Soon

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Celebrating The Times Magazine's Most Iconic Images

When you work for a magazine that produces 52 issues a year, there is not a lot of time for reflecting on the past. But that's exactly what Kathy Ryan, the longtime photo editor of The New York Times Magazine, was asked to do for The New York Times Magazine Photographs, a revealing new book to be published by Aperture this October.
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