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Posted Swissted: Punk Rock Posters in Swiss Modernist Style to Grids
Mike Joyce has been creating amazingly cool CD covers, music packaging, and posters for years through his work at Stereotype Design. His side project has been Swissted, his effort to recreate classic punk rock gig posters from the 1970s, 80s,...
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Posted A Cool (and Melting) GreenSource Cover to Grids
For the cover of the January/February 2013 issue of GreenSource, creative director Francesca Messina and art director Heather Haggarty utilized the talents of Ice Sculpture Designs to carve a cityscape out of a 200 pound block of ice, using a...
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Posted YSB Magazine: Classic 1990s Covers to Grids
The early 1990s was a vibrant time for magazine publishing. It seemed like great new magazines were being launched every day: Entertainment Weekly, Martha Stewart Living, InStyle, the Conde Nast version of Details, Vibe, and many more. One of my...
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Posted Happy Valentine's Day from The New Yorker to Grids
A beautifully-designed Valentine's Day cover used to be an annual event for many magazines. Today, with the exception of an occasional women's service mag, Valentine's Day has almost disappeared from the newsstands. Thank goodness for The New Yorker, which has...
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Posted The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races to Grids
The past month I've been researching vintage African American magazines for a series of posts on my Facebook and Tumblr pages as part of Black History Month. One recent collection was a set of covers from The Crisis, the official...
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Posted Dashwood Books: A Curated Bookstore to Grids
Story and interview by Greg Pond (A version of this originally appeared in Room 100 magazine)Dashwood Books is the city's only "curated" visual bookstore. Within this teensy, crammed shop, located on Bond Street, owner David Strettell is unassumingly promoting the...
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Posted SF Weekly Covers by Andrew J. Nilsen to Grids
Andrew J. Nilsen has been the art director at altweekly SF Weekly for the past three years. During that time he's art directed over 150 covers, many of them self-illustrated (and one, featuring an illustration by Brian Stauffer won a...
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Posted Interview with Tim Moore, creative director of 29th Street Publishing to Grids
Among the most exciting developments in iPad app creation has been the rise of magazine apps that are unique, not based on pre-existing publications or their formats. 29th Street Publishing has been in the vanguard of this movement, creating magazine...
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Posted The New Look of The Saturday Evening Post to Grids
The debut of the redesign of The Saturday Evening Post is one of the (at least to my eyes) most remarkable visual turnarounds of a consumer magazine in recent memory. The magazine has been relaunched with much media fanfare to...
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Posted Anorak Kids' Magazine Now Available in the U.S. to Grids
Anorak is a UK-based kids magazine for ages 6-12 that just debuted in the U.S. and North America with their new "Animals" themed issue. Edited and art directed by Cathy Olmedillas, Anorak launched in 2006, and is taglined, "The happy...
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Posted Kenji Aoki Photographs for Room 100 Magazine to Grids
Here's a tasty photographic treat from the latest issue of Room 100, the in-house magazine distributed by Thompson Hotels to all their locations. The series of vintage top hat photographs is by Kenji Aoki. Greg Pond was the director of...
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Posted Village Voice Covers to Grids
Weekly magazines get a lot of love and attention for their covers, and deservedly so. Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, The New York Times Magazine, until recently, Newsweek, and even the Huffington. app have all been producing a highly sophisticated...
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Posted Brian Stauffer Illustrations to Grids
Illustrator Brian Stauffer has been on a tear the past couple years, creating a brilliant body of work for publications as diverse as Worth, The New Yorker, the Huffington app, and countless altweeklies, as well as doing some knockout posters...
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Posted ShopSmart Redesign to Grids
The Consumer Reports ShopSmart magazine was relaunched in January with a bright, sharp new design. The 300,000 circulation magazine is aimed at women 35-60, and is densely packed with consumer service material, charts, lists, best and worsts, and much more....
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Posted Weekly Dig/Dig Boston Altweekly Covers to Grids
One of my favorite altweekly newspapers is Dig Boston, formerly called (until last year) the Weekly Dig. Creative director Tak Toyoshima's covers are a weekly visual treat using a brilliant selection of illustrators and photographers, and sometimes handling the art...
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Posted Time Magazine Person of the Year to Grids
Time, December 31, 2012-January 7, 2013Photograph: Nadav KanderDesign director: D.W. Pine...
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Posted The Top 10 Vintage Magazine Covers of 2012 to Grids
This is the time of year for list-making. Be sure to vote in the SPD Best Cover of the Day 2012 Poll, which will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, we've put together a collection of our 10 favorite vintage magazine covers...
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Posted Celebrity Santa Magazine Covers to Grids
Our favorite part of the holiday season is looking at Xmas magazine covers. This year we're celebrating magazine covers featuring celebrities dressed in Santa Claus hats (and costumes). Check out this gallery of fine Yule tidings, featuring Snoop Dogg, Burt...
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Posted The Huffington iPad Magazine to Grids
Don't sleep on the Huffington iPad magazine! That's my message to everyone for the holiday season. Huffington just marked their six-month anniversary of publication, and the now-free weekly app has become a powerful example of original tablet publishing. I've been doing...
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Posted The New Yorker Halloween Covers to Grids
One of our favorite annual rituals of magazine cover publishing is The New Yorker Halloween cover. Here's a collection of a dozen classics from the 21st Century, all art directed by Francoise Mouly.(Above): The New Yorker, November 6, 2000. Illustration:...
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Posted Monster Magazines for Halloween! to Grids
Here are some classic monster magazine covers guaranteed to make you forget Frankenstorm (at least for a few minutes)! We know a lot of art directors and illustrators who grew up in the 1960s and 70s used to curl up...
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Posted Intermediair, R.I.P. to Grids
A few years ago my friend Ron Reason spent some serious time working (and playing) in Amsterdam. When he came back he posted on his blog a bunch of covers from an amazing weekly Dutch magazine called Intermediair, art directed...
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Posted Herb Lubalin Retrospective #3: Avant Garde to Grids
To celebrate this weekend's Herb Lubalin Then and Now symposium, SPD has been posting a three-day celebration of the magazine cover designs of one of our favorite art directors and typographers. Third in the series is Avant Garde magazine, a...
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Posted Herb Lubalin Retrospective #2: Eros to Grids
To celebrate this weekend's Herb Lubalin Then and Now symposium, SPD will be posting a three-day celebration of the magazine cover designs of one of our favorite art directors and typographers. Second in the series is Eros magazine, a hardcover...
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Posted Herb Lubalin Retrospective #1: Fact to Grids
To celebrate this weekend's Herb Lubalin Then and Now symposium, SPD will be posting a three-day celebration of the magazine cover designs of one of our favorite art directors and typographers. First up is Fact magazine, first published in 1964...
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Posted The Art of Political Caricature on Magazine Covers, 1960-76 to Grids
If you're as stressed-out as we are from the current political campaign, here's an antidote. Julie Mihaly (Boom Underground) and myself (Newmanology) have collected a big set of images of 1960s-70s politicians, and are posting them daily on our Facebook...
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Posted Twenty-Four Magazine, Created in 24 Hours! to Grids
Twenty-Four is a rotating group of people based in New York City who produce a digital and print issue of a magazine in one 24-hour period. Their third issue, organized around the theme of failure, is just out. You can...
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Posted SPD Discount for the Fast Company Design Awards Party! to Grids
Come celebrate with design colleagues from various disciplines ranging from Industrial Design to Consumer Products at the first annual Fast Company Design Awards Party, on Tuesday, October 16 at 6 pm at the IAC Building, 555 W. 18th St., New...
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Posted The New Republic Cover Retrospective, 2001-12 to Grids
For the past 11 years, Joseph Heroun and Christine Car have been art directing and designing The New Republic. Working remotely from New York City and Boston (TNR has been based in Washington, DC), they redesigned the magazine twice, produced...
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