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• Commented on Cool Nerds Go Negative
  I agree Grant, the September Issue of Wired (platform agnostic) is wicked awesome. Speaking of wicked awesome, everyone should be on the look out for even more awesomeness over the next few months as fourth quarter advertising budgets open up...
• Posted Three Questions with Tim J Luddy, CD, Mother Jones to Grids
  Mother Jones makes great use of illustration within its pages. Is this an artistic choice on your end, or the by-product of working with a tight budget?TJL: We decide on whether to use illustration, photography, or a combination of the...
• Posted Cool Nerds Go Negative to Grids
  Wired and Scientific American must have called each other up before class this month!I thought this was too random to pass up. I realize many genres of magazine verticals share similar cover strategies however these two popular titles, while they...
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  For months now I have resisted buying an iPad as I'm waiting for the inevitable better / cheaper second version to be released. (I'm not totally sure why as I have historically been an Apple early adopter, I think I'm...
• Commented on Another "Inspiration?" Cover
  C'mon... gee whiz! I think it's pretty obvious that the St Louis Cover is GRASS FED BEEF as opposed to that store bought beef on the NY mag cover... which by the way is barely visible underneath all those condiments......
• Posted Three Questions for Joshua Gorchov, Principal, The Loud Cloud Creative Agency to Grids
  You have worked for years as an accomplished, award winning illustrator. Having worked with many Art Directors in your day, what is a pet peeve of yours when working with us pushy, needy Director types? Feel free to leave names...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  Food for thought Criswell aptly mentioned web design as being a target for this approach. In fact it's been approached this way on the web for quite some time. This site your participating in is built on a blogging platform...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  I can see this approach m - a - y - b - e satisfying some niche of the low end trade / business publication corner of publishing world who run tighter than the bark on a tree. Let's be...
• Commented on NY Mag's Eat Cheap 2010: Splitsville
  Here is a link to T Magazines own reaction to the cover copy cats... http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/biting-our-style-coast-magazine/...
• Commented on NY Mag's Eat Cheap 2010: Splitsville
  Love them both and can totally see why they ran the two. Forced to choose one over the other I'm going with the typographic cover. It feels more true to the content it's working to present. As a reader I...
• Posted Three Questions for George McCalman, AD at AFAR to Grids
  You recently helped launch AFAR, a magazine about and for world travelers. When the idea of helping launch a new travel magazine during the worst recession of our lifetime was offered to you what was it that made you enthusiastically...
• Commented on Inspiration, or.....???
  Too close for comfort from my perspective. I'm typically not one to frown on others work as I empathize that many magazines out there are operating with small budgets and the work flows may be intense, sometimes pushing creatives into...
• Commented on SPD GALA: Live From New York
  I can't wait to check it out on Friday afternoon PST since I'm stuck on the west coast. Thanks for putting up this feed!...
• Commented on SPIN's 25th Anniversary Cover Zips Up, Counts Down
  You can't do that with an iPad!!! wait...... or could you? hehe Outstanding work, totally fun!...
• Posted Three Questions for Matthew Bates, DD at Backpacker to Grids
  You're one of the only Editorial Creatives I'm aware of who directs both the print and digital versions of the brand. If that wasn't tough enough I understand you have a small staff of only three?  How do you juggle...
• Commented on The Fortune 500 cover legacy
  Looking back, it's wonderfully inspiring to see some of the abstract and conceptual approaches that have made their way onto the covers over the years. It's awesome when an edit/art team work together to produce such confident statements. I've been...
• Commented on Classic TV Guide covers
  I had no idea Dali had ever done a magazine cover. That's just amazing to me, and what a weird cover! These illustrations are so textural, I am loving the lack of cover lines as well. The end result is...
• Commented on Hot Rod magazine: The cover archive
  OMG! Three of my favorite things in one place. Cool nostalgic Design Awesome photo galleries with simple UI and HOT RODS! (The only pet peeve I have is that I have to scroll up and down a bit to see...
• Commented on Rolling Stone: Deja vu?
  I love the homage to those old Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell. Makes me want to jump in my 35 Ford Woody, cruise down to the town center and get an ice cream cone!...
• Commented on Covering the iPad
  Wowzers! Just took a look at that link, Gotta say it feels weird looking at that front and back cover combo of Newsweek... It's a digital takeover of print!! ..feels almost cannibalistic on one level, on another level it's iPad...
• Commented on SPD Digital: Judging Excellence in Editorial Design Across All Digital Platforms
  To clarify things, If you already entered the online competition categories for PUB 45 your entries will be entered into this competition. I apologize for any confusion. This year we have played with branding the online competition in it's own...
• Commented on The iPad: "everybody needs to calm down"
  Out here in SF I can tell you everyone (especially those working digitally) is not drinking the iPad Koolaid. Sure it will be cool, Don't get me wrong I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE me some Apple, my beef is with publishers...
• Commented on From SXSW: One Newsstand of the Future
  The last line of this video is telling: When asked when do you think this will be available... "The technology exists now it's really up to companies to decide to do it" Besides WIRED, NYT, SI, GQ who else is...
• Commented on The iPad: One step forward, two steps back?
  I can't help myself, if you want some perspective from the way back machine here is the Knight Ridder tablet video from 1994, looks familiar huh? Be careful opening at work as video is on autoplay, turn down volume. Knight...
• Commented on Breakfast With Mr. Lois: <br/>Part 1
  Do yourselves a favor and go see this talk, in fact it is mandatory as a working creative that you go see George. This living legend has more GREAT stories than all of us put together and he can tell...
• Commented on National Magazine Awards Nominees Announced
  What about digital editorial design?! Oh wait, below are some finalists for ASME digital categories! What a great list of digital properties. Speaking of great digital design, SPD is launching it's own digital competition next week and you can find...
• Commented on Art director Nai Lee Lum and the Fortune international edition covers
  Thanks Bob this is some really great work I would have never seen. I'm wondering why the covers are so illustration heavy. Is it a budget issue or a societal / audience preference?...
• Commented on Happy 20th Birthday Entertainment Weekly
  Great stuff. I think the vertical secondary headline convention is interesting...in the sense that it's interesting the trends that come and go in magazine making. I remember that trick was also later used in Business week and we did it...
• Commented on Photo Shoot or Video Shoot?
  It's like you guys were reading my mind, I was actually asking myself just the other day if this months Esquire DiCaprio cover was a Digital still! On the web of course it's not odd to use video stills as...
• Commented on Apple iPad: It's Real
  Hey Emily, Remember how big the name backlash was when Nintendo came out with the Wii? They took a few knocks on the chin and went on do do so well that these days Wii seems perfectly appropriate. I have...