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Posted O.R.D.: Outdoor Retailer Daily to Grids
Matthew Bates, creative director of the Outdoor Group (which includes Backpacker magazine, among others), took a team of smart visual folks to the Outdoor Retailer trade convention in Salt Lake City to create a daily magazine/newsletter. Along with senior art...
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Posted The Top Alternative Newsweekly Covers of 2011: 10 Runner-Ups to Grids
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...
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Posted The Top 10 Alternative Newsweekly Covers of 2011 to Grids
2011 was another great year for alternative newsweekly cover design. Papers big and small across the country put out a steady stream of covers that were by turns graphic, provocative, funny, and highly original. With the rise of publication cover...
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Posted The Coverjunkie Covers Magazine to Grids
Coverjunkie, the cool website that features daily updates of magazine covers from around the world, has published a pop-up magazine devoted to the best covers of 2011. It's filled with almost 250 covers, plus interviews with noted publication designers like...
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Posted Happy Thanksgiving! 11 Illustrated New Yorker Thanksgiving Covers to Grids
The New Yorker has been publishing Thanksgiving covers for most of its history. But our favorites are the ones done since 1993, all art directed by Francois Mouly. Here are 10 of our favorites (plus one pre-93 cover by Saul...
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Posted On the Ground: New Book Collection of 60s Underground Press to Grids
On the Ground is a great new book about the 1960s (and early 70s) underground press, edited by Sean Stewart, the mastermind behind Tumblr site Babylon Falling. The book is packed with reproductions of underground newspaper front pages, comics, graphics,...
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Posted Boston magazine to Grids
The Boston Globe newspaper has been a fertile breeding ground for magazine designers. Richard Baker, Gail Anderson, Lynn Staley, and current Fortune design director Emily Kehe, among others, all cut their teeth in the Globe's newsroom. The latest Globe veteran...
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Posted Letter to Jane Fundraiser to Grids
Readers of the SPD site know that we're big fans of Letter to Jane, the magazine iPad app created by Tim Moore. So far there have been three issues of the iPad-only magazine, each bursting with visual creativity, exciting videos,...
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Posted How the Newsweeklies Covered (and Designed) the Death of Steve Jobs to Grids
If anyone had doubts about the viability or importance of newsweeklies in the modern media world, they should have been dashed by the response last week to the death of Apple's Steve Jobs. Not only did Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, and...
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Posted Steve Jobs Illustrations to Grids
Steve Jobs has been the inspiration for countless illustrated portraits over the years. Here are some of our favorites. If you've got more, let us know and we'll add them to the list.(Above): Illustration by Tsevis Visual Design, for Fortune....
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Posted The 10 Greatest Steve Jobs Magazine Covers of All Time to Grids
CO-WRITTEN WITH SAM KUOIn November 2009, Fortune magazine picked Apple's Steve Jobs as the CEO of the decade, and ran this cool cover (design director: John Korpics; photograph by Albert Watson). Jobs has been the go-to tech dude for business mags...
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Posted Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review, Pt. 2: Senior Art Director Steven Charny to Grids
Rolling Stone senior art director Steven Charny is the guy responsible for assigning the lead record review illustration that appears in every issue of the magazine. Under the direction of RS art director Joe Hutchinson, Charny continues the long tradition...
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Posted Fairchild Fashion Media: "Smart, chic, and all business" to Grids
The Fairchild Fashion Media magazine group, the collection of fashion trade magazines published by Conde Nast, has undergone a major metamorphosis, thanks to creative director Nancy Butkus and editorial director Peter Kaplan. Butkus took over the creative helm of the...
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Posted Classic Art Department Mastheads #2: Men's Journal, October 1996 to Grids
For the second in our series of great art department mastheads, we're highlighting the genius cluster of people who worked at Men's Journal during the time of their October 1996 issue. Men's Journal was still published in its oversize format,...
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Posted 9/11 Covers, Part 3: 2011 to Grids
To note the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, SPD will be posting a series of collections of magazine covers published around the event. This third set are covers published in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. If...
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Posted 9/11 Covers, Part 2: 2002 and 2006 to Grids
To note the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, SPD will be posting a series of collections of magazine covers published around the event. This second batch is covers published in 2002 and 2006, on the six month, year, and...
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Posted 9/11 Covers, Part 1: 2001 to Grids
To note the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, SPD will be posting a series of collections of magazine covers published around the event. This first batch is covers published in 2001, immediately after 9/11. If you've got additional covers...
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Posted Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review to Grids
For longer than most of its readers have been alive, Rolling Stone has been an essential showcase for illustrators and illustration. Although the features, political columns, and covers have all been great venues for art, it's the opening record reviews...
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Posted Altweekly Cover Design Awards to Grids
The annual altweekly awards were announced on July 22 at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual conference in New Orleans. In addition to awards for best cover design in two categories (large and small circulation), awards were also given for...
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Posted The SPD 45 iPad App Reviewed: Part 2 to Grids
SPD has been getting more nice notices for its new Pub 45 iPad app.Here's what people are saying:Magculture.com: "A beautiful resource...like a mega-portfolio of the best editorial work. A great record of a golden era of US editorial design."The Magaziner:...
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