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• Posted Seattle Re-Celebrates Its 1962 World Fair to Grids
  In October 1962, President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to be in Seattle to attend the closing ceremony of the Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair). But Kennedy had to cancel abruptly due to what the White...
• Posted The 1912 ATF Specimen ... Now Available Online! to Grids
  Jonathan Hoefler tweeted recently that he'd found a site that had digitized the American Type Foundry's 1912 Type Specimen book. It's true. If you don't know this book, next time you're at a bar with a typographer, mention that you've...
• Commented on How to (re) Make Money: Part 1, Print
  Wow! What a spectacular job, Neil. I'm going to be studying these enormously rich pages for a while. Thanks for sharing....
• Posted FontShop Brings 620,000 Fonts to Your iPad to Grids
  You've had their iconic yellow and black book on our shelves for years. Now it's available on your iPad. FontBook, from FontShop, contains over 620,000 typeface specimens from 110 type foundries. Use the FontBook app to look up and view...
• Posted An All-New 'Ap' to Grids
  The good people at Bon Appetit have just posted a slide show of their latest redesign....
• Posted April Foolery to Grids
  Our man in the UK, Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture.com, found it first, but we had to pass this along. Full story after the jump ......
• Commented on Cover of the Day, April 1, 2011
  Awesome....
• Commented on Fast News for March 8, 2011
  Amen....
• Posted Sneak Peek: The <i>Ebony</i> Redesign to Grids
  Venerable Chicago-based Johnson Publishing went for broke last year in an effort to turn the tide at their flagship magazine, Ebony. First, they reached out and hired former Harper's Bazaar Deputy EIC, Amy DuBois Barnett. She, in turn, tapped Esquire's AD,...
• Commented on Portugal's i Newspaper
  This is truly beautiful work. Let's hope American publishing recovers to the point where we can have this much fun again. And soon!...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  If this is the impetus for many more print magazine startups, then it could be a great thing. Certainly, after a fledgling magazine gets on solid ground a year or two after its launch, one of the first evolutionary steps...
• Posted A Fine Thanks to Grids
  Last week I attended what I thought was going to be a retrospective exhibit of 10 years of editorial and design excellence at Metropolis magazine. As a relatively new New Yorker, and a long-time fan of the magazine's creative director,...
• Commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  There's a thread of commentary on the Newsweek redesign on magCulture.com here: http://magculture.com/blog/?p=3776#more-3776 For my part, this conversation opens up a larger issue: was the goal to ignore magazine convention for the purpose of creating the first post-web print magazine?...