Results tagged “cover design” from Grids
Creating Daily Magazine Covers at the Political Conventions
When Bloomberg decided to publish a daily magazine at the Republican and Democratic conventions this year, it was a natural choice for them to tap former Time art director Arthur Hochstein to be the creative force for their covers. Hochstein... MORE
The 50th Anniversary of the First George Lois Esquire Cover
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first cover that George Lois designed for Esquire, (October 1962), and Fast Company is making note of it in their new design issue and on their iPad app. This photograph of Lois... MORE
The Top Alternative Newsweekly Covers of 2011: 10 Runner-Ups
Earlier this week we published The Top 10 Alternative Newsweekly Covers of 2011. There were so many good covers that we decided to add this list of 10 runner-ups. Here, in no particular order, is another batch of amazingly creative... MORE
Great Minds Think Alike
Seen at the newsstand in Penn Station, New York City. It looks like Florida Travel & Lifestyles and Washingtonian have the same stock photo source! Thanks to Erik Spooner for the photo.... MORE
The Guardian's G2 Section Covers
G2 is the daily (Monday-Friday) features section of the Guardian newspaper, based in London. It was the launching pad for Richard Turley, now the creative director at Bloomberg Businessweek. His successor, Joanna Cochrane, has been continuing the marvelous graphic tradition... MORE
The Covers of the SF Weekly
Andrew Nilsen has been the art director of alternative newsweekly SF Weekly since January 2010. One of his SF Weekly covers won a gold medal at this year's SPD Gala for Best Illustrated Cover, with an illustration by Brian Stauffer.... MORE
The Story of O, Part 2: The Covers
On Tuesday, June 7, SPD will present The Story of O, featuring design directors Robert Priest and Grace Lee talking about O, the Oprah magazine and the O iPad app. They'll be talking about their work redesigning the print product and launching the app, all just days... MORE
Bloomberg Businessweek: The Covers
One of the great joys over the past year has been to watch the cover design of Bloomberg Businessweek develop, find its voice, and then explode with a multiplicity of powerful, smart, original visuals, and brilliantly understated typography. On Thursday,... MORE
Happy 20th Birthday Entertainment Weekly, Part 6: Amid Capeci
February 16, 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of the publication date of the first issue of Entertainment Weekly. We're concluding our six-part, year-long celebration with a look at the EW covers of the magazine's sixth design director, Amid Capeci. Here... MORE
Second Annual Best Xmas Magazine Covers
Last year at this time SPD published its first annual Best Xmas Magazine Covers collection. Now we're back with a second holiday collection. Here are some of our favorite Xmas covers from over the years. If you've got your own... MORE
China Reform Magazine
For the past nine months, New York-based Nai Lee Lum has been consulting creative director for China Reform magazine, based in Beijing. Before starting this project, Lum was the Fortune international edition art director. She has teamed up with illustrator... MORE
Intermediair: Weekly Magazine Covers from Holland
Intermediair is a weekly Dutch magazine, based in Amsterdam, art directed by Jaap Biemans. It has a circulation of 200,000, most of it free, mainly to recent Dutch university graduates. Much of the magazine's focus is on finding jobs (according... MORE
U.S. News & World Report, R.I.P.
U.S. News & World Report was always an also-ran among the newsweeklies. I shunned it both because of its plodding visual design and its conservative, "traditional" American lifestyle politics. And in recent years the magazine had slowed down to a... MORE
Bloomberg Businessweek
When Bloomberg Businessweek launched their redesign (and re-imagination) of the magazine at the end of April, the response from the publication design community was somewhat underwhelming. The first couple covers were solid but not remarkable, the insides were crisply formatted... MORE
Our Favorite Halloween Covers from The New Yorker
We love The New Yorker's annual Halloween covers. From Hitler as a flying witch in the 1940s to post-9/11 city kids trick or treating as firefighters and police, the covers have been funny, pointed, scary, and always beautiful. We collected... MORE
Zeit Magazin's 40th Anniversary Issue
German Zeit Magazin celebrated its 40th anniversary issue with 40 covers featuring model Claudia Schiffer, photographed by Frederike Helwig. You can see all 40 covers here and here.... MORE
Still More Inspiration, or...???
We've got another example of cover design inspiration, one of the boldest to date. Portland Monthly art director Jason Blackheart sent us two covers "inspired" by his original December 2006 cover. Read his comments after the jump...(Left) : Portland Monthly,... MORE
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