Fast News for Oct. 12, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Longtime W art director Nathalie Kirsheh is leaving the mag to become design director at Details...

>> Esquire debuts its iPad app. It reads only in portrait (vertical) mode...

>> "Oprah Winfrey is the magazine industry's  No. 1 ambassador," says media reporter Jon Friedman, describing her appearance at the American Magazine Conference last week in Chicago...


>> What would you do to change The New York Times Magazine? MediaWeek asked a panel of editors, designers, and media folks, including Roger Black...

>> Great report on Magtastic Blogsplosion from Offset, the annual graphic design festival based in Dublin. Speakers included Scott Dadich, George Lois, and David Carson...