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Posted SPD 47: Sandra Garcia's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Sandra Garcia, Design Director, Travel + LeisureFavorite Magazine: New YorkBecause hardly a day goes by in my office without I or one of my colleagues starting a sentence with: "You know how New York Magazine does..." This post is part...
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Posted SPD 47: Andrew Horton's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Andrew Horton, Creative Director, BillboardFavorite Magazine: LOVEWhat's not to love about LOVE magazine? Fantastic production values, brilliant typography and a collection of some of the funniest fashion photography on the stands. Seriously, every issue I've picked up has had a...
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Posted SPD 47: Carla Frank's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Carla Frank, Creative Director, Cooking Light MagazineFavorite Magazine: Vogue Gioiello Vogue Gioiello (translate Vogue Jewel)--is a gem!This Italian edition pays homage to the cover as a poster. Each is extraordinary, unpredictable, sophisticated and somehow innocent. They have a certain oddity...
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Posted SPD 47: Rob Hewitt's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Rob Hewitt, Design Director, Conde Nast TravelerFavorite Magazine: MonocleMonocle magazine, published out of London, England has set the standard for what smart navigation and immersive magazine making has come to be. The design is so compact that it almost seems...
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Posted SPD 47: Criswell Lappin's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Criswell Lappin, Art DirectorFavorite Magazine: ColorsI am not sure if I have a favorite magazine, but when I picked up Colors this year and it was kind of like running into my best friend from college. And in this case...
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Posted SPD 47: Florian Bachleda's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Florian Bachleda, Creative Director, Fast CompanyFavorite Magazine: Coverjunkie CoversThis issue has already been stolen from my office.This post is part of the Favorite Magazines Project, part of SPD's PUB 47 Competition and Awards. Download the entry forms and be a part of the competition...
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Posted SPD 47: What the Digital Judges Liked to Grids
We concluded judging for our 47th annual competition over the weekend at FIT in NYC, with co-chairs Luke Hayman, Richard Turley and Jeremy Leslie overseeing the print judging and Scher Foord and Joe Zeff supervising the digital judging, and Robert...
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Posted SPD 47: Judging Weekend to Grids
Judging weekend is in full swing at FIT in NYC. A few snapshots on Flickr here....
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Posted SPD 47: Gustavo Lo Valvo's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Gustavo Lo Valvo, Design Director, Clarín. Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFavorite Magazine: El Amante CineThis is a monthly independent magazine about movies designed by art director Mariana Marx. Simple, clear, almost minimalistic most of its pages are printed with just one ink. It...
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Posted SPD 47: Don Morris's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Don Morris, Don Morris DesignFavorite Magazine: New YorkQuintessential packaging (how could Milton Glaser DNA be a bad thing?) with the most contemporary storytelling, revealing photography, and the wittiest infographics. All done in a week. New York's the prototypical reality show. Put a camera...
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Posted SPD 47: Mitch Shostak's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Mitch Shostak, Shostak StudiosFavorite Magazine: FortuneI like to read business magazines and have worked for BusinessWeek and the NY Times designing them, as well as designing several in our studio over the years. When JK (no name dropper am I)...
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Posted SPD 47: Paul Martinez's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Paul Martinez, Creative Director, MaximFavorite Magazine: PortOne of my new favorite magazines is PORT. A mens lifestyle & fashion magazine beautifully executed with a nod to the past but with a thoroughly modern edge. While the typography is clean, graphic...
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Posted Pub 47: What Happened in 2011? to Grids
Riots? Civic disorder? Few nations running out of money? Some hurricanes, a tsunami and an earthquake or two? Kim Kardashian probably did something. Who really cares? All we care about is which typeface the New York Times Magazine used in their...
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Posted SPD 47: Brandon Kavulla's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, WiredFavorite Magazine: Fantastic ManI realize this is not the most original selection, but man I just always love it. There really is this dry windsor-knotted sense of humor throughout the book that comes across in the...
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Posted SPD 47: Kris Vesselman's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Kris Vesselman, Managing Editor and Creative Director, San Diego Union-TribuneFavorite Magazine: MonocleOne of my favorites is the cheeky and intelligent Monocle - at once a reader's magazine and a visual buffet. A broad range of topics are presented cleverly with...
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Posted SPD 47: Tom Alberty's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Tom Alberty, Design Director, New YorkFavorite Magazine: LotusI received a complimentary subscription to Lotus magazine after I bought my first Lotus (the yellow one). What a pleasant surprise. Graphically, it's bold and clean like the numbers on a classic Formula...
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Posted SPD 47: TJ Tucker's Favorite Magazine to Grids
TJ Tucker, Creative Director, Texas MonthlyFavorite Magazine: Popular MechanicsI find myself picking up Popular Mechanics more and more. The book is organized is such a beautifully complex way but still manages to feel simple. I love what they've been doing...
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Posted SPD 47: Randy Minors's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Randy Minor, Art DIrector, New YorkFavorite Magazine: ILIL magazine--every issue is a gem and they are highly coveted by the design staff at New York magazine. I don't understand a word of it--but don't really need to--to be entertained/fascinated by...
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Posted SPD 47: Ben King's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Ben King, Art Director, Print MagazineFavorite Magazine: Bloomberg BusinessweekMore impressive than 2009's smart editorial overhaul, or the savvy redesign, the consistently amazing illustration and photo selection, the unexpectedly wonderful covers, the quirky theme issues, the hypertextual touts encouraging you through...
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Posted SPD 47: Erin Mayes' Favorite Magazine to Grids
Erin Mayes, Partner, Em Dash DesignFavorite Magazine: Garden & GunI love Garden & Gun...so much I could eat it.It's elegant without trying to be something that it's not. The design and photography is all really well crafted. And reading it...
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Posted SPD 47: Ina Saltz's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Ina Saltz, Ina Saltz DesignFavorite Magazine: Mental FlossMental Floss isn't my absolute favorite magazine (that would be Vanity Fair, the only magazine I could not live without if I were stranded on a desert island), but it is a fine,...
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Posted SPD 47: James Reyman's Favorite Magazine to Grids
James Reyman, Reyman StudioFavorite Magazine: EsquireSteve Jobs once said that good design is not only about making things look better but making them work better. A well designed magazine, to me, is one that looks beautiful and reads well. It's...
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Posted SPD 47: Arthur Hochstein's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Arthur Hochstein, Art DirectorFavorite Magazine: Bloomberg BusinessweekIn today's world, what does "magazine" even mean? Print, tablet, online. I'll stick to print for my choice. It's awfully hard to pick a "favourite"--there are so many excellent ones. But one that stands...
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Posted SPD 47: Donna Braggins' Favorite Magazine to Grids
Donna Braggins, Rogers, TorontoFavorite Magazine: The WalrusChoosing a favourite magazine has to be as tough as choosing a favourite friend. I'm always impressed by how many good magazines Canada produces in a market that measures about the same as one American...
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Posted SPD 47: Gretchen Smelter's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Gretchen Smelter, Art Director, IndonesiaFavorite Magazine: Acne PaperAcne Paper is an artful, intelligent blend of fashion and portrait photography mixed with interviews and narratives about people and culture in the creative world. I find the large format and beautiful matte...
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Posted SPD 47: Andrea Dunham's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Andrea Dunham. Creative Director, PeopleFavorite Magazine: LotusI likey them fetishistic trade magazines that, when you crack their spines, they smell like petroleum and blast out the retinas with their blindingly white, glossy 92 lb. paper stock. And though I'll likely...
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Posted SPD 47: Ola Carlson's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Ola Carlson, Art Director, Magasinet Filter ABFavorite Magazine: Hemslöjd Recently redesigned magazine Hemslöjd (Crafts), made me instantly fascinated of stuff that I'm not normally interested in. An achievement in itself. All of a sudden I had learned some hidden design history, read a...
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Posted SPD 47: Nathalie Kirsheh's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Nathalie Kirsheh, Design Director, DetailsFavorite Magazine: BONThe simple grid incorporating breaks, the monochromatic typographic palette, the combination of classic typeface textures with minimal flourishing elements injected into the title designs along with the alternating paper stock, all integrate to accent...
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Posted Meet the Pub 47 Digital Judges! to Grids
Digital co-chairs Scher Foord and Joe Zeff asked our panel of digital judges to share their thoughts on how social interactions, geo-location and game mechanics would shape app design and development this year. Here's what they had to say:...
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Posted SPD 47: Joe Zeff's Favorite Magazine to Grids
Joe Zeff, President, Joe Zeff DesignPostI love Post because it is so smart and sophisticated, and experiencing it makes me feel smart and sophisticated. Its navigation is almost invisible, and I feel empowered by understanding where to go without...
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