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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... MORE

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.If you've got news or tips about job changes... MORE

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Conde Nast: All Fire'd Up

One week after its launch, the Kindle Fire is proving to be a platform for publishers that rivals Apple's iPad. The industry is estimating 4-5 million devices to be sold this holiday season. Its smaller screen and 16:9 proportions does... 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... MORE

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Chris Dixon Leaving New York for Vanity Fair

Reported this morning at MagCulture and confirmed this afternoon by a much-circulated email from New York's Editor in Chief Adam Moss, Chris Dixon will be leaving his position as Design Director at New York for the top design spot at... MORE

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9/11 Covers, Part 1: 2001

To note the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, SPD will be posting a series of collections of magazine covers published around the event. This first batch is covers published in 2001, immediately after 9/11. If you've got additional covers... MORE

Cover of the Day, July 29, 2011

Welcome to The SPD Cover of the Day. We post our favorite covers every Monday and Wednesday (with occasional extras). Stay tuned for the best and coolest magazine and newspaper covers, as selected by our stellar group of experts.... MORE

Fast News for March 8, 2011

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.>> Must Be Redesign Season: After last week's big unveiling--and yesterday's--today... MORE

PUB 46 Merit Winners Announced

Following up on the Medal Finalists announcement of last Friday, we're happy today to share the officially verified list of Print and Digital Merit winners for PUB 46 today. Official letters, submission information for the PUB 46 Annual, and advance... MORE

PUB 46 Medal Finalists: Magazine of the Year, Print and Digital

When we called this the Fight of Your Life, we didn't realize that some of the races for Gold and Silver Medals in this year's PUB 46 would be so literal: once again this year, a truly inspiring collection of... MORE

Vanity Fair: The 2011 Hollywood Issue

Vanity Fair just debuted this year's Hollywood Issue cover. This year's cover was photographed by Norman Jean Roy and features 14 glam party people plus Robert Duvall tending bar. Check out the behind the scene's video at the cover shoot after the jump. From left:... MORE

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Fave Femmes

In 2009, graphics duo Angela Tillman Sperandio and Samira Bouabana of Swedish design studio Hjarta Smarta traveled to New York to meet with, in their words, "a few lady giants of the designing world." Those conversations laid the groundwork for... MORE

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National Magazine Awards winners

The annual National Magazine Awards were presented on April 22 at Alice Tully Hall in NYC. Here's a list of the magazines and people who won the visual categories:* Best Design: Wired (for the third year in a row!). Creative... MORE

National Magazine Awards Nominees Announced

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the nominees for the 2010 National Magazine Awards. The nominees for best design are:Esquire / design director: David CurcuritoGQ / design director: Fred WoodwardMartha Stewart Living / design director: James Dunlinson New York... MORE

Annie Leibovitz Honored

The highlight for me at last night's National Magazine Awards (aside from the good people of Automobile's acceptance speech which was freaking amazing) was ASME bestowing Annie Leibovitz with the Creative Excellence Award. A kind of Hall of Presidents graced... MORE

Illustration Awards: Photo-Illustration

Keeping our illo-crush alive, we're taking a peek at the Medal Finalists in the Photo-Illustration category. Now, you might be wondering, why aren't these in the photo group? And we'll admit, like Donny & Marie (now The Archivists date themselves),... MORE

PUB 44 Medal Finalists Announced!

Best in Show: A competition whereby dogs designs are judged as to which one is considered to be the most closely conformed to its written breed standard of excellence.We've seen the best, and from a wider variety of magazines than... MORE

Worth A Look

To celebrate their 25th anniversary (of this iteration), Vanity Fair has been making lists of all the best things: parties and books and, of course, photography. The slideshow of their top 25 news photographs is online here. The photos, some... MORE

New York Leads with Six Nominations in ASME Cover Contest

The finalists for the 2008 ASME Cover Contest were announced today. New York leads all nominees with 6 nods, including one for Cover of the Year (above), with the newly revamped Interview and The New Yorker, which received 4 total... MORE

Just In Case You Missed It

A few things we haven't blogged about (yet), but have been on our minds:Lots of chatter about Esquire's 75th anniversary issue, from the E-Ink cover to the inside packages. Imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery? More chatter about the... MORE