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• Commented on SPD 47: TJ Tucker's Favorite Magazine
  couldn't agree more. The rich packaging, the tireless attention to detail, inspiring stuff....
• Posted Blood Sweat and Ink! Creating The Village Voice Comics Issue to Grids
  In early February Village Voice Art Director John Dixon and his team had a great idea: Instead of using a ton of photo and pickup art to populate the pages of the iconic paper, why not use comic illustration... heck...
• Commented on SELF-PORTRAIT: Congratulations to our Winners!
  Really impressive work, congrats to all! What an amazing opportunity for photography students to have such industry greats deliberate for TWO DAYS over their work. See you at the gala!...
• Commented on Cover of the Day, March 23, 2011
  Martin Parr is a genius! Love this cover...oh the nostalgia, '91 was a fine year indeed! (except for Paul Merson and fergie though it would appear!)...
• Commented on Meanwhile ... In Charleston
  You know a magazine has real brand identity when competitors are...er..."inspired" (?) by it, check out this link...homage...or fromage...? http://yfrog.com/h8mxhrabj great work Marshall and the gang!...
• Posted Meanwhile ... In Charleston to Grids
  Garden and Gun is way more than just a provocative magazine title. Describing itself as "the soul of the south" the Garden & Gun brand which has a national audience of nearly half a million readers has fast become known...
• Commented on SELF-PORTRAIT
  This is a great brief, really broad, what is a self portrait after all...can't wait to see how the students interpret this! Good luck!...
• Commented on Student Competition Judges Announced
  Huge thanks to talk of the town Robert Festino for taking the time out of his hectic schedule to help judge this year especially as it was announced this morning that he will be the new design director of Men's...
• Commented on Three Questions: At Home with Illustrator Noma Bar
  UPDATE! If anyone is in Paris this week, check out Noma's show at the Espace Beaurepaire, its up until Feb 20th and according to the good folks at Noma's agency Dutch Uncle, has received rave reviews since opening last tuesday...
• Posted Sun, Sans and Serifs: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2011 to Grids
  Fed up with the gloom of a seemingly endless winter, ready for a blast of sun, sand and serifs (heck this is a design blog after all!)...well this should blow the cobwebs off! Today sees the US release of the...
• Posted Three Questions: At Home with Illustrator Noma Bar to Grids
  Norma Bar has been taking the international world of editorial illustration by storm for over ten years. You've seen his strikingly graphic award winning images in publications such as UK Esquire, The Economist, Men's Health, The New York Times, Wallpaper,...
• Commented on Your Moment of Type Zen #3
  When you drive through Delaware I noticed lots of really crunchy signage for "Tobacco, Peanuts, Fireworks and Ham"! All the staples to get you through a holiday with the in-laws!...
• Posted Pimp my Data! to Grids
  Cool motion info graphics are nothing especially new, but when they start popping up at the end of Will Ferrell movies they certainly do grab your attention. In a bid to get the lucky attendees of Steve Duenes' "Art +...
• Commented on Up: In-Flight Magazine Designed by +2 Designers
  Wow, thanks for posting these. Definitely inspiring work!...
• Commented on Heed the Call
  this call for entries is GREAT, just taped it up in on my wall to get me all charged up to start ungluing some bindings! I'm getting my entries in before christmas to make sure I avoid the late fee...
• Commented on The Hollywood Reporter Relaunch
  congrats the hollywood reporter! Looks great and the info-graphics are sharp! THR has one heck of a team out there in LA to be able to produce all that content every week! Bravo!...
• Commented on Cover of the Day, December 15, 2010
  Brilliant...
• Commented on Up Close with Our 2010 Second-Place Winner
  Outstanding work Kyle! Great technique, top quality execution and as with all great editorial design it revolves around a smart idea!! You have to keep everyone up to date with new work!...
• Commented on Happy 20th Birthday Entertainment Weekly, Part 5: Brian Anstey
  This series has been so cool! Apart from being a fun trip down memory lane (and pop culture history lesson!) its really inspiring to see that a magazine can produce such a staggering volume of work week after week and...
• Posted Three Questions for Dan Saelinger to Grids
  In recent years Art Director's Club 2009 "Young Gun" winner Dan Saelinger has become the go-to guy for bold, dynamic and above all smart conceptual work. This year alone his shots have appeared in publications as varied as Men's Health,...
• Commented on Worth Magazine's Illustrated Covers
  These covers are timeless. As much at home hung in a gallery as sitting on the coffee table of a powerful CEO. Beautiful work, can't wait to see how collaboration will evolve!...
• Commented on 10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers
  Great post, the new zealand herald app is great! Speaking of apps from the southern hemisphere, one I've been enjoying is "Sport & Style" from the sydney morning herald. It has a great use of 360 degree image rotation which...
• Commented on Cleveland Newspaper Goes Big When LeBron Leaves
  Love the Plain Dealer cover! Great work, that use of white space reminds me of the iconic ESPN the magazine cover from back in 98. The notable difference: EPSN's cover commemorated Jordan's SIXTH title...Lebron?...not so much!!! http://kromerica.com/articles/www.magazine.org/editorial/40-40-covers/18.jpg...
• Posted "LA" tour keeps on rollin' to Grids
  As the 97th Tour de France hurtled head long to its conclusion on Paris' champs élysées on sunday (with no shortage of controversy...Lance say it isn't so!?) photographer Brent Humphreys' now iconic and on-going project "le tour" enters its second...
• Commented on Twin Cities METRO: Choose Your Own Adventure This Summer
  This is great! LOVE seeing the sketch of how this idea was conceptualized. Such a great example of edit and art working (and most importantly communicating) together to come up with an original solution to a tricky problem: How to...
• Commented on Mag App: Popular Mechanics (Beta Edition)
  totally agree Mike, this is the best one yet. There's so much I love about this app but the highlight for me is the fact that they made a conscious decision NOT to design 2 orientations for every "cell" (portrait...
• Posted Everywhere Else It's Called FOOTBALL... to Grids
  Oh the joys of being a magazine art director during the summer months! Smaller issues, a less competitive dress code and editors who are so desperate to head to the beach for the weekend that the decisions just make themselves......
• Commented on Inspiration, or.....???
  Cheers Dan, more resources doesn't always seem to garner stronger work though, often means more speed bumps. Heres to being more ambitious with limited cash (and thus more ambitious and creative...hopefully!)...
• Posted Shoot This Magazine! to Grids
  Enough with the iPad for 2 minutes, Field & Stream create a different type of interactive magazine experience for its readers. With their July 2010 "Gun Nut" special, readers of the hunting and fishing monthly are encouraged not only buy... but...
• Commented on Inspiration, or.....???
  I'm soooo interested in the back story here! That "take a break" line seems almost too obvious a wink to the NY cover! Was the design director some how forced into reproducing the NY cover and this note is his...