March 2014 Archives
Cover of the Day: Time International
Cover of the Day 03.27.14
Art Director: Victor Williams
Creative Director: D.W. Pine
Illustrator: Ben Wiseman
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Illustrator: Ben Wiseman
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The SPD Magazine of the Year: Gold Medal Magazines & Art Directors
49 03.27.14
In 1997, SPD introduced the Magazine of the Year award, a recognition of the publication that featured the top all-around design, imagery, graphics, illustration, and general visual magic. The first winner was 2wice, art directed by Abbott Miller. In the years since, the list of winning magazines and art directors reads like a who's who of publication design: The New York Times Magazine, Details, GQ, Martha Stewart Kids, New York, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, and art directors Arem Duplessis, Janet Froelich, Fred Woodward, Patrick Mitchell, Debra Bishop, Luke Hayman, Rockwell Harwood, John Korpics, Richard Turley, and Scott Dadich. The Magazine of the Year is the ultimate SPD award, an acknowledgement by the visual community of the very best in publication design.
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SPD 49 Merit Winners Announced
49 03.24.14
Official notifications will be emailed to all the winners. Please save the date for the 49th Annual Awards Gala, Friday, May 2nd at 4 WTC (yes, a new venue!). Tickets go on sale soon.
Congratulations to the following publications...
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The SPD Magazine of the Year: 16 Years of Gold Winners
49 03.24.14
In 1997, SPD debuted the Magazine of the Year award, a best-of honor voted on by everyone who was a judge at the annual design competition. It is a recognition of the best magazine of the year, the one with the supreme all-around design, imagery, graphics, illustration, and general visual magic. The first winner was 2wice, art directed by Abbott Miller. In the years since, the list of winning magazines and art directors reads like a who's who of publication design: The New York Times Magazine, Details, GQ, Martha Stewart Kids, New York, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, and art directors Arem Duplessis, Janet Froelich, Fred Woodward, Patrick Mitchell, Debra Bishop, Luke Hayman, Rockwell Harwood, John Korpics, Richard Turley, and Scott Dadich. The Magazine of the Year is the ultimate SPD award, an acknowledgement by the visual community of the very best in publication design.… MORE
SPDWest@STUDIO1342: Unsung Heroes 9 - April 10th
03.18.14
FREE for SPD Members! General Admission is a steal (drinks included!) Register NOW after the jump...
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SPD 49 Medal Finalists: Magazine of the Year, Print, and Digital
49 03.16.14
You'll find the full list of medal nominees after the jump...
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Roger Black's Redesign of the Hong Kong Tattler
Redesigns 03.15.14
Here are some of the highlights from the recent Roger Black-directed redesign of Hong Kong Tattler, a luxury, style, and lifestyle magazine. As group creative director of Edipresse Media in Hong Kong, Roger launched this redesign in March, and will carry it through seven other Tattler editions across Asia in the near future.
For more on Hong Tattler and the redesign, check out this nifty video. For the redesign Roger turned to Font Bureau and type designer David Jonathan Ross to revive a classic typeface, Forma, which was originally created in the mid-1960s by a team led by Aldo Novarese. The Font Bureau blog has a detailed (and properly obsessive) background story on the creation of the new font. It's a great look at the revival and redesign of a classic typeface and how it was developed.
Complete digital copies of Hong Kong Tattler can be downloaded via Magzter.
(Above): Photograph by Sean Lee-Davies
On the turn page we've got a slideshow of other pages from the Hong Kong Tattler redesign.
Cover of the Day: OUT
Cover of the Day 03.13.14
Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Design Director: David Gray
Photo Directorr: Greg Garry
Photographer: Michael Muller
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It's March Madness at SPD-U!
Students 03.10.14
Forget college basketball ... you should be placing your bets on our future editorial design talent over at SPD-U! • Thanks to our terrific judges Rob Hewitt, Fred Woodward, Deanna Filippo, Kristin Fitzpatrick, Jeff Griffith and Todd Detwiler for their time judging our 2014 Student Design Competition last Friday. We'll be announcing the winners on the student blog this week, so stay tuned!
• Our next student event takes place Tuesday, 3/18, featuring an awesome line-up of speakers sharing their job and freelancing experiences. If you teach a class or have an intern or junior designer, be sure to send them our way!
• We have a new blog series called "5 Questions For..." featuring a different professional each time talking about their job title and what it entails. If you'd like to be considered for a feature post, email us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com.
Cover of the Day: Newsweek (it's back!)
Cover of the Day 03.07.14
Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Cover Design: Priest + Grace
Read more about Newsweek's return to print here
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Cover of the Day: Athlete's Quarterly
Cover of the Day 03.05.14
Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Creative Director: Anthony Scerri (10Ten Media)
Photographer: Chad Griffith
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Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day? Send us a jpeg of your cover with credit info to SPDsubmissions@gmail.com