Grids: September 2017 Archives

Cover of the Day: Entertainment Weekly, September 29, 2017

Cover of the Day 09.29.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Entertainment Weekly, September 29, 2017

Creative Director: Tim Leong

Design Director: Keir Novesky

Photo Editor: Michele Romero

Photographer: Art Streiber

Read more for additional Entertainment Weekly covers featuring the cast of The Walking Dead.

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Cover of the day: Variety (US), September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.28.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Variety (US), September 2017

Illustration: @owengildersleeve

Creative Director: Chris Mihal

Art Directors: Chuck Kerr, Cheyne Gateley

Designers: Vanessa Morsse, Allison Cressey

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Don't Miss INSPIRED LIVE on Monday, October 16th!

09.26.17 posted by The Editors

Don't miss this fast-paced presentation as these talented creatives reveal their sources of inspiration.

INSPIRED LIVE

(formerly known as 20x20 LIVE)

Monday, October 16th

SVA Theatre - 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

(between 8th and 9th Aves)

Doors Open: 6:30 pm / Presentation: 7:00 pm

Reception to follow

RSVP HERE!

Tickets are free and admission is first come, first served. RSVP does not guarantee entry.

Presenters include:

Carin Forman, Director of Digital Media at HBO

Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie's

Cory Jacobs, Creative Director at Cottage Eight FIlms

Toby Kaufmann, Photo Director at Refinery29

David Korchin, SVP Creative at DigitasLBi

Audrey Landreth, Photo Editor / Curator

Jojo Li, Prop Stylist

Mark Mann, Photographer

Brad Ogbonna, Photographer

Jennifer Pastore, Photography Director at WSJ. Magazine

Paul Stone, Director at Nolita Films

Nichole Washington, Visual Artist

Victoria Will, Photographer

The Village Voice: An Art Directors' History

RIP 09.22.17 posted by Robert Newman

Pictured above is the final cover of the final print edition of The Village Voice, which hits the streets on September 20. Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah, art director: Ashley Smestad Vélez.

Since its founding in 1955 The Voice provided a venue for a wide array of visual voices to speak--photographers, illustrators, cartoonists, artists, and designers who were given space and room to grow and connect with a larger community. The Voice visual aesthetic not only went on to influence newspaper design--both daily and weekly--but also mainstream magazine design. Former Voice art directors went on to direct the visual directions of Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Saveur, Real Simple, Details, Vibe, Fast Company, Wired, Fortune, Lucky, Mother Jones, and many more.

Starting with Milton Glaser, who redesigned The Voice in the mid-70s, the paper has been the home to a stack of talented art directors and design directors, including George Delmerico, Michael Grossman, Wes Anderson, Kim Klein, Robert Newman, Florian Bachleda, Jennifer Gilman, Audrey Schachnow, Ted Keller, Minh Uong, Ivylise Simones, John Dixon, Tom Carlson, Andrew Horton, and current AD Ashley Smestad Vélez. Two other creative talents who contributed mightily to the look of The Voice were longtime picture editor Fred W. McDarrah, and art director Jesus Diaz. Diaz has been the Minnie Minoso of The Voice, working in various roles over five separate decades (he started young), and in the process becoming an inspiration to countless creatives, and many would say, the soul of the paper.

SPD reached out to former Voice art directors and design directors to get their impressions and memories of life and work at the paper. We've also collected an historic gallery of over 50 covers and pages, beginning with issue number 1, published in 1955.

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Cover of the day: Sweet Paul, September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.21.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Sweet Paul, September 2017

Founder & Editor-In-Chief: Paul Lowe

Creative Director: Joline Rivera

Graphic Designer: Nellie Williams

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Cover of the Day: Quinnipiac Magazine, Summer 2017

Cover of the Day 09.20.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Quinnipiac Magazine, Summer 2017

Design: Pentagram

Illustration: Brian Stauffer

Editor: Janet Waldman

SPD "Last Thursday" Happy Hour

Happy Hour 09.19.17 posted by The Editors

Join us for September's "Last Thursday" Happy Hour!

Our monthly happy hour will be held Thursday, September 28th (the last Thursday of the month!) at No Fun and will be hosted by the SPD Board of Directors.

Come grab a drink and catch up with the SPD Board!

Check out the list of our board members below:

Clinton Cargill  -  Director of Photography, Bloomberg Businessweek

Caleb Bennett  -  Design Director, Condé Nast Traveler

Toby Kaufmann  - Photography Director, Refinery29

Rebecca Simpson Steele -  Photo Director, Reader's Digest

Abbey Kuster-Prokell  - Design Director at Bed, Bath, & Beyond 

Krystal Atwater -  Director of Photo & Video, NFL

Jacqueline Bates  - Photography Director, The California Sunday Magazine

Kristina DiMatteo -  Senior Creative Lead, Bloomberg Global Media

Rachel Gogel  - Creative Director, Facebook

Anton Ioukhnovets  - Creative Director, Ioukhnovets Studio

David Moretti  - Creative Director, WIRED 

Kathy Nguyen -  Photo Director, The Knot 

Thomas O'Quinn  - Creative Director, O'Quinn Design 

Stravinski Pierre  - Deputy Art Director, ELLE

Krista Prestek -  Director of Visuals, GQ and GQ Style 

Dan Rhatigan -  Senior Manager, Adobe Typekit 

Victor Williams -  International Art Director, TIME

We hope to see you there!

No cover charge = no excuse not to come

Thursday, September 28th

No Fun

7PM-9PM

161 Ludlow Street

Cover of the day: escapism, September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.19.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

escapism, September 2017

Editor: Jon Hawkins

Art Director: Matthew Hasteley

Senior Designer: Abigail Robinson

Designer: Emily Black

Junior Designers: Annie Brooks, Nicola Poulos

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A Photo Editor Remembers The Village Voice

Photography 09.18.17 posted by Robert Newman

By Meg Handler

This week, the The Village Voice will cease publication of its print edition. [Editor's note: The final print issue of The Voice will publish on Wednesday, September 20.] For so many of us who still work (or don't work) in the media, this news felt like a punch in the gut. While the website will remain, it will never be the same as the paper itself. There's something about opening a newspaper and seeing your picture in there for the first time. This was the dream of so many, including myself.

There was a very specific aesthetic to the photographs in the paper. Having been inspired by the great documentary photographers of the 1960s, that was my aesthetic too. The black border around the photographs was considered a "Village Voice" look, the writer/photographer teams, like Guy Trebay and staff photographer Sylvia Plachy, and nightlife columnist Michael Musto and photographer Catherine McGann. The clean page design, the equal weight of words and images on feature pages, also gave the paper a unique look. The mission of the paper and its left-leaning nature, was also inspiring to me.

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Cover of the Day: The New Yorker, September 18, 2017

Cover of the Day 09.18.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

The New Yorker, September 18, 2017

"Warhead"

Art Editor: Françoise Mouly

Artist: Eric Drooker

Cooking Light's Redesign with Creative Director, Rachel Lasserre

Redesigns 09.15.17 posted by Chelsey Lamwatt

While reaching 30 years in publication is no small feat, the Cooking Light team also had something more to celebrate with their recent September issue. The 30th Anniversary Issue featured an unveiling of a fresh new redesign and rebranding. The issue revealed both new content and a new design that emphasized a shift toward focusing on "fresh and healthy" and less attention on "light."

Cooking Light's Editor-In-Chief, Hunter Lewis and Creative Director, Rachel Lasserre collaborated with design consultancy Area of Practice on the new design. We spoke with Rachel about the collaboration and what went into producing Cooking Light's new look.

Read on for Rachel's answers and to see more images from the redesign after the jump!

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Cover of the Day: Entrepreneur México, September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.15.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Entrepreneur México, September 2017

Art Director: Vanessa Patiño López

Photographer & Photo Editor: Isaac Alcalá Nácar

Retouching: Azcary Andino

Cover of the day: New Philosopher, September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.14.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

New Philosopher, September 2017

Editor: Zan Boag

Art Directors: Carlos Egan, Aida Novoa

Cover Design: Genis Carreras

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Cover of the Day: The Tulsa Voice, September 6 - 19, 2017

Cover of the Day 09.13.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

The Tulsa Voice, September 6 - 19, 2017

Creative Director: Madeline Crawford

Photographer: Valerie Grant

Editor: Liz Blood

Publisher: Langdon Publishing

Cover of the day: Food and Travel (UK), August/September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.12.17 posted by The Editors

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Food and Travel (UK), August/September 2017

Editor: Mark Sansom

Creative Director: Angela Dukes

Designers: Kelly Flood, Jessica Coomber

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Cover of the day: donna hay (Australia), September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.07.17 posted by The Editors

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donna hay (Australia), September 2017

Editor-In-Chief: Donna Hay

Creative Director: Chi Lam, Genevieve McKelvey

Designer: Hannah Schubert

Photography: Anson Smart

Styling: Steve Pearce

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Cover of the Day: MDC The Event Planner's Magazine, July/August 2017

Cover of the Day 09.06.17 posted by The Editors

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MDC The Event Planner's Magazine, July/August 2017

Title: What does Mexicali taste like?

Design / Art Director: Daniel Esqueda Guadalajara

Photographer: Alfredo Pelcastre

Creative Studio: Daniel Esqueda Media

Publisher: Orange Communications

Cover of the day: habitus magazine, June-August 2017

Cover of the Day 09.05.17 posted by The Editors

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habitus magazine, June-August 2017

Deputy Editor: Holly Cunneen

Creative Director: Sylvia Weimer

Senior Designer: Michelle Byrnes

Designer: Camille Malloch

Cover image: Photography by Peter Clarke

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Cover of the Day: San Francisco Magazine, September 2017

Cover of the Day 09.04.17 posted by The Editors

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San Francisco Magazine, September 2017

Design Director: Clark Miller

Photo Editor: Karen Williams

Photographers: The Collaborationist

Photo Assistant: Dane Pollok

Stylist: Leila Baboi

Models: Jennifer Roberts, Alexis Hutt

Hair: Kurt Musrasrik

Makeup: Hether Beckrest

Happy Hour Recap: Summer's Final Exhale

Happy Hour 09.01.17 posted by Nathalie Kirsheh

Although there are technically 22 days left until Fall kicks in, Thursday night Airbnbmag's Natasha Lunn and I waved off an unofficial last day to Summer with some great meet ups, good times, great vibes (and a few grab-bag shenanigans.) If you missed this one, fear not because you can just make September's....or October's, or November's, or... ok you get it.

Cover of the Day: C-VILLE Weekly, August 16, 2017

Cover of the Day 09.01.17 posted by The Editors

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of great magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

C-VILLE Weekly, August 16, 2017

Creative Director: Bill LeSueur

Photographer: Eze Amos

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