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Noted Without Comment

Via Gawker. ... MORE

Ready For Its Closeup

Can a news magazine retouch its photos? Debate rages on.... MORE

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SPD@FIT: New York Magazine at 40

Tuesday night was the first of SPD's fall speaker events, and it was a blockbuster: the audience was packed with notables, hopefuls, and everybody in between. It was a testimonial to New York Magazine's powerful influence in our city and... MORE

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Nothing But a Ballpoint Pen

For the September issue of Los Angeles, art director Joe Kimberling collaborated with illustrator and type designer Marian Bantjes to create the cover. The solution, done solely with a blue ballpoint pen, is a notebook covered with doodles inspired by... 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

Nothing Like the First Time

The Premiere Issues Project is a site dedicated to magazine covers of first issues. Click on a cover and get stats like name, dimensions, publisher and -- most importantly -- art direction and design.... MORE

Nancy Harris Rouemy: The NY Mag McCain Cover Challenge

I don't know what was more rousing last night--watching Bill O'Reilly challenge Barack Obama to explain his association with Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, or watching Dirk Barnett, the skillful Creative Director of Blender, challenge Walter Bernard, Milton Glaser, Bob... MORE

Avedon & BRIDES

In preparation for BRIDES' big birthday in January (a girl never tells her age!), my photo team and I have been muddling through decades of archived issues, starting in the 1930's. So, in the next few weeks, for your viewing... MORE

Library Love

While researching typography for "a major motion picture," SpotCo art director Darren Cox unearthed a treasure trove of design goodness at the NY Public Library's Digital Archive. In this age of Google Images and big stock agencies, we often forget... MORE

Black Power!

My Saturday evening typically consists of the following: A late workout, maybe a swing by the Whole Foods, an errand or two, and then a quick jaunt by my corner deli for a hot-off-the-press copy of Sunday's New York Times.... MORE

Results tagged “covers” from What Are You Looking At?

"The Covers Are Wild and Illegible (and Totally Inspiring!)"

Lately I've been looking at issues of House Beautiful from the late 1960s. I love the pages of illustrated merchandise. It's so modern!... MORE

"I Raved About It To My Magazine Store Clerk."

I hate to say it but I have been ogling the latest issue of Bon Appétit. It was the cover that got me! I wanted to eat up that ice cream cone right there in the magazine store. I raved... MORE

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Blitt Storm

When the controversy erupted over The New Yorker's now-infamous cover "The Politics of Fear" last week (showing a fear-monger's vision of a post-inaugural Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office), perhaps your first thoughts were not of the effect... MORE

I Didn't Even Realize the Feast of St. Sebastian Was Coming Up...

but it must be, with all these martyr-homages going on.Many thanks to Jeremy Leslie at magCulture for his rapid vigilance on this. Two covers posted with the same idea, on one day. Hmm.... MORE