Magazines: September 2008 Archives

New York Magazine's 40th Birthday: The Print Edition

If only we would all celebrate our 40th birthdays with this kind of fervor: our friends at New York magazine have their huge anniversary issue on the newsstand this week, and it's a beauty. What we can find inside, and some behind-the-scenes photos after the jump... … MORE

Nothing But a Ballpoint Pen

For the September issue of Los Angeles, art director Joe Kimberling collaborated with illustrator and type designer Marian Bantjes to create the cover. The solution, done solely with a blue ballpoint pen, is a notebook covered with doodles inspired by a creative, yet distracted high school student. As Marian says on the contributors page "I did everything but the bar code". Check out more of her amazing work here.

Nancy Harris Rouemy: The NY Mag McCain Cover Challenge

I don't know what was more rousing last night--watching Bill O'Reilly challenge Barack Obama to explain his association with Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, or watching Dirk Barnett, the skillful Creative Director of Blender, challenge Walter Bernard, Milton Glaser, Bob Newman, Adam Moss and Chris Dixon to a cover solution competition at the start of the panel discussion celebrating the 40th birthday for New York magazine, held at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York city.

''If McCain gets elected, New York's cover would be what?,'' Barnett asked provocatively. "You will get to answer at the end of our discussion.'' I couldn't stop scanning the panel from left to right, and right to left, wondering if these guys were internally crying to the heavens above for a clever solution or tucking the task in their subconscious so that they could focus on the questions at hand. I initially gave myself the same challenge; 30 problem-solving seconds later, I cut myself a break after reminding myself, this is my one night out -- enjoy! And so I did.
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Joyce Rutter Kaye: Out of Print

Via yesterday's Daily Heller...

Today is Joyce Rutter Kaye's last day as editor-in-chief of PRINT. After ten years, she will be joining NYC & Company, New York City's official tourism, marketing, and partnership organization, as senior editorial director.... Picking up from long-time PRINT editor Martin Fox, Joyce impressed her own personality on the magazine. She oversaw its current redesign, its greater adherence to the news, its increased critical stance, and its renewed vitality as a chronicle of the new while respecting history. Under Joyce, PRINT racked up more American Society of Magazine Editors' National Magazine Award nominations and two major awards. She has built an enviable staff of design journalists and editors. At a time when the web threatens to make print obsolete, Joyce has made the magazine more vigorous and the PRINT site more active.