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Face-Off: Tina Fey Covers

Entertainment Weekly and Esquire hit newsstands this week with dueling Tina Fey covers. Which works best?... MORE

Mark Burckhardt on the making-of his Texas Monthly cover

Over on Drawger there's an excellent behind-the-scenes look at this month's Texas Monthly cover (shown here) marking the 15th anniversary of Tejano singer Selena's tragic death. Illustrator Marc Burckhardt walks through the process from commission to drafts to completed cover... MORE

From SXSW: One Newsstand of the Future

Gizmodo shares a prototype shown at SXSW that could display, sell and transfer magazines to a tablet.Watch the video after the jump.... MORE

George Lois on the Esquire Covers at MoMA

We show this all the time, we love it so, but there's never too much of a great thing: here's a a tiny flash of what you might get a chance to see at our evening with George Lois for... MORE

Real Simple: Time to Celebrate

With daylight savings time set to begin this Sunday, we might all be wishing we had a better understanding of time Monday morning. Real Simple's ahead of us on this: for their tenth anniversary issue this month (April 2010), Creative... MORE

The greatest Oscar-winners magazine covers

In honor of the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 7, we've collected the greatest Oscar-winners magazine covers. We've got a small collection here at SPD, and you can see even more on this Facebook page. If you've... MORE

Magazines Go To The Movies

This week's Time Out New York cover (illustrated by The Red Dress), reminded me of several movie-inspired magazine covers and layouts. With the Oscars this weekend, why not look back on cinema-inspired layouts. It looks like its been fertile ground... MORE

Magazine covers: Does sameness sell?

Newspaper design guru Mario Garcia asks that question in his latest post for the Garcia Media blog. Why do so many magazine covers look the same? Why do they all use the same crop and style of photography, and why... MORE

Details "10th" Anniversary

This month, Details celebrates their "10th" Anniversary. Why the quotes? We'll its the 10th anniversary of their relaunch. The title actually dates back 28 years. ... MORE

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Brooklyn On A Snowy Day

Ok, so this may be a little gratuitous. But, its also a little bit of sunshine on a cold snowy day in NYC.... MORE

Results tagged “covers” from Grids

The creative power of Miami New Times

The knockout cover pictured above is the work of Pam Shavalier, the very talented art director of alternative weekly Miami New Times. In two years at the paper, Shavalier has crafted a brilliant, creative, highly-original set of covers, creating a... MORE

Rolling Stone: The 00s

With a huge decade in the music/culture business to look back on, Rolling Stone created a cover that couldn't be more perfectly, well, Rolling Stone. We asked RS Art Director Joseph Hutchinson to tell us about the making-of:... MORE

New York: The 00s

For some of us, the best part of this time of year is the lists: best of (even more when they're meta), worst of, top-selling, favorites, and anything else that can be list-ified. The end of a decade means even... MORE

New York: Fantastic Mr. Fox's Gift Guide

This week's issue of New York showcases their annual holiday gift guide, featuring the stars of Wes Anderson's new stop-motion animated film, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Five foxes, a badger, a rabbit, and a possum flew in from England for the... MORE

The First Issue (Part 1)

With each week that goes by, we're hit with the news that another magazine is being shut down. It seemed appropriate to celebrate the first issue as much as the last.Here is a small collection of pop-culture/entertainment debut issues...... MORE

Latina: ¡Viva Mexico!

Florian Bachleda, Creative Director at Latina, shares a look behind their latest issue:As of late, Mexico's reputation has suffered greatly in the mainstream news media. With the constant reports of drug wars, violence and H1N1, you'd think it was the... MORE

Wired + Wallpaper =

I swear...  I did not stage this!Random Placement?  Or is someone at Farley's messing with our minds? View another funny random cover collaboration.Photo: Jeremy LaCroixUpdate:Check out Chris Dixon's Mash-up of the original, I sense a trend here! ... MORE

ASME Best Covers of the Year

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the winners of its 2009 Best Covers of the Year competition. Rolling Stone's July 10, 2008 cover of Barack Obama, photographed by Peter Yang (and art directed by Joseph Hutchinson), won... MORE

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 1!)

Women on a mission! Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to compile the Best! List! Ever! We're hoping you'll indulge us when we come to your online doorstep in pursuit of the one design book on your shelf... MORE

UK Magazine Cover Awards 2009

The winners have been announced for the Maggies, the UK magazine cover awards competition. The overall winner was Q magazine, for their Lily Allen cover. There are seven categories, and five nominees in each. Check out their website for a... MORE