News: November 2010 Archives

Fast News for November 30, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Dirk Barnett is the new creative director for Newsweek/Daily Beast. He took the job after just two days as the new design director at Lucky....

>> Interaction Design is the New Art Direction? A smart post by Adam Schwabe that recaps Khoi Vinh's recent "Digital Killer the Art Director Star" talk. Key quote: "user experience and interaction design are the logical successors to art direction"...

>> Virgin will unveil its custom built magazine iPad app this week in NYC. It's described as a "revolutionary multimedia publication"...

>> Mario Garcia looks at the design of iPad magazine app "landing pages," the very first page that pops up on the screen....

Fast News for November 23, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

Fast News for November 18, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Folio has announced the finalists for its annual Ozzies (design) and Eddies (editorial) magazine awards. Winners will be announced at the awards lunch on January 13...

>> Drawger, the illustrator group blog, has posted the 2010 Drawger Annual, a collection of sample work from over 60 illustrators. It's very cool...

>> Jill Armus is the new creative director of Every Day with Rachel Ray magazine. She was formerly the creative director at Prevention...


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Fast News for November 16, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> When is an app not an app? A simple explanation from Joe Zeff Design about when you should (and shouldn't) create an app. Essential reading...

>> Tina Brown (former Talk, New Yorker, Vanity Fair editor) will be the new editor of Newsweek, after the Daily Beast/Newsweek merger takes effect...

>> The future of writing on tablets: LA Times interview with Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects. He discusses IA's new iPad app, Writer...

>> Tablet Takeover! The Blistering Rise of iPad and Tablet Computing: an infographic, by Fast Company...

Fast News for November 11, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Tonight at 7PM: the AI-AP party! Tickets available at the door, all who love great work are welcome, it's a perfect way to celebrate Illustration Week!

>> George Lois socks it to the audience at min's Editorial & Design Awards, telling the audience in his acceptance speech upon being admitted to their Editorial & Design Hall of Fame, "...take the handcuffs off your most talented designer and let him or her...create a magazine cover for your next issue that connects in a nanosecond, that surprises, that thrills, that inspires, that sells." A standing ovation followed...

>> For your coffee-break: WWD sets up the Editor-in-Chief face-off coming to us all in January between Adam Moss at New York Magazine and Hugo Lindgren at The New York Times Magazine...

>> ESPN's executive VP for content John Skipper: "The savior for paper products is not the iPad"...

>> The British Society of Magazine Editors (the UK version of ASME) announced their 2010 Magazine Editors' Awards winners, including magazine, editor, and art directors of the year. Thanks to Magculture for the link...

Fast News for November 9, 2010

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>> It's Illustration Week in NYC! Be sure you're part of the official festivities: RSVP for the AI-AP party and Rock It Honey on Thursday at Angel Orensanz with all your favorite photographers and illustrators...

>> ...and elsewhere, illustrator Stephen Kroninger has a show of his 1980s experimental collages at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Many examples and background info here. Also on display at MIAD are 40 illustrations from the Society of Illustrators Illustration 52 annual...

>> Great new covers from Essence, Glamour, Rolling Stone, Mad, The New Yorker, i-D, Paper, and many more, at CoverJunkie.com...

>> U.S. News & World Report announces the end of its print edition (except for occasional special and college ranking issues)...

Fast News for November 4, 2010

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>> Dirk Barnett will be the new Design Director for Lucky. He was previously creative director at Maxim..

>> Hugo Lindgren, new editor for The New York Times Magazine, talks about change at the Grey Lady's weekly...

>> Chalkley Calderwood is the new creative director at Latina. She fills the spot recently vacated by Florian Bachleda...

Fast News for November 2, 2010

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>> If you missed it, New York magazine looks into Newsweek's new owner Sidney Harman, and the broken engagement that could have given us Newsbeast

>> Chip Kidd interviews Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau for Rolling Stone...

>> Leslie dela Vega is the new photography director at Fast Company. She was previously photo director at Essence...

>> Pop Goes the iPad Bubble? Mediaweek slams magazine apps, says publishers are "squandering an opportunity"...