Appreciation: June 2010 Archives

Atomic Magazine: Cool Retro Style

Atomic Magazine: Cool Retro Style

Atomic magazine was published from 1999-2004. Jeff Griffith was the co-publisher and creative director of this "essential guide to the retro revival." He describes the magazine's mission as "to bring back the best of a bygone era--the music, the clothing, and the lifestyle--and remind our readers what it means to have fun!" Atomic was filled with retro-styled design, typography, and photography, featuring tons of great talent. The design was lovingly styled to reflect the vintage look of the magazine. Fans of 40s-50s design and imagery will love the pages of Atomic. We've collected some covers and inside pages to celebrate the wonders of this great magazine project, a labor of love by Griffith and editor Leslie Rosenberg.

(Above): The last cover of Atomic. Photograph by Guy Powers.


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Happy 10th Birthday to the Staff of O Magazine

Happy 10th Birthday to the Staff of O Magazine

Oprah Winfrey visited the Hearst Building on Tuesday to deliver a 10th anniversary present to each staff member of O magazine: a brand new iPad, an engraved leather case, and a check for $10,000. Read the story here.
Complex magazine: Tim Leong retrospective

Complex magazine: Tim Leong retrospective

Tim Leong was the design director at Complex magazine for the past four years. He recently left the magazine to move to San Francisco and be the art director at Wired. At Complex he developed a look that was fun, energetic, sexy, and diverse, reflecting the magazine's hip, street attitude. Leong used a rapid-fire mix of cool photography, photo illustration, cartoony illustration, and high-powered graphic typography to create a very original and totally rocking design. Here's a short retrospective collection of Leong's Complex covers and feature spreads.

(Above): Keri Hilson, August/September 2009. Photograph by Matt Doyle, illustration by So-Me.
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