New Work: March 2010 Archives

SKI Magazine's best of the season

SKI Magazine's Art Director, Eleanor Williamson, just wrapped-up the seasonal title's 7 issues before the tackle their next project (more on that later in the post), and in honor of these closing days of winter, offered to share a look back at their best design and photography of the season. … MORE

UCLA Goes Plush

Charlie Hess of Chess Design sends along the story of his first plush: commissioned sculpture + the April 2010 UCLA Magazine cover here = a great story. Read about the making-of after the jump... … MORE

Real Simple: Time to Celebrate

With daylight savings time set to begin this Sunday, we might all be wishing we had a better understanding of time Monday morning. Real Simple's ahead of us on this: for their tenth anniversary issue this month (April 2010), Creative Director Janet Froelich decided just one cover would not be enough. The magazine's focus on time-saving and simplifying went conceptual, and then multiple. As reported in The New York Times on Monday,

"Time is a very intangible thing -- there isn't a picture of time, and there isn't a particular image that comes to mind,".... So Ms. Froelich decided to commission clocks from industrial designers, who usually create consumer products or conceptual sculptures.

A look at all the covers, photographed by Craig Cutler, and the specially-commissioned screensaver, after the jump...
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New Look for Fortune

John Korpics shares a sneak peek at his Fortune redesign. Here's a look:… MORE

Hockey Challenge 2010

Longtime (!!) fans of New Work on Grids might remember one of our earliest submissions, the Hockey Challenge from 2009. Creative Director Lou Maxon shares some pages from this year's edition, a complete redesign for the custom editorial. Take a peek after the jump... … MORE