News: January 2011 Archives

Fast News for January 25, 2011

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 January 20, 2011

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.

>> Reader's Digest launched their first app for the iPad....

>> Victoria Advocate art director Ryan Huddle is joining the design department of The Boston Globe, where he'll work on the Sunday magazine and the daily G entertainment section...

>> Builder magazine debuts its new redesign, by Luke Hayman of Pentagram...

Fast News for January 18, 2011

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.

>> Brandon Kavulla is the new creative director at WIRED. He was previously design director at Men's Health...

Fast News for January 13, 2011

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.

>> New apps by CNN and Roadtrip, an iPad-only travel magazine...

>> Tonight at the Type Directors Club: German graphic designer Fons Hickman and Pacific Northwest art director/poster designer Art Chantry...

>> Smart guy Khoi Vinh spreads more doom and gloom about magazine iPad apps: "Stop it Conde Nast. Stop it Hearst. Stop it Adobe. Stop it everyone who's pursuing this all but discredited strategy"...

Fast News for January 11, 2011

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.

>> Scott Hall is the new Director of Photography with Creative Director Dirk Barnett for the new Newsweek / Daily Beast enterprise. He had been a Photo Editor at T, The New York Times Style Magazine...

>> More on the state of iPad apps: from Paid Content: "it will take years, not months, to work out how to make apps better than both the web and newspapers"....

>> Former Time art director Arthur Hochstein will reprise his recent caretaker role at Bloomberg Businessweek as he helms Newsweek while Dirk Barnett works on the upcoming redesign...

Fast News for January 6, 2011

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.

>> Liza Aelion is the new Brand CD for Hachette's Woman's Day...

>> Have you noticed? The first deadline for PUB 46, print and digital, is tomorrow. Download entry forms and instructions here if you still need them, and check out this fantastic overview of the expanded Digital categories here...

>> And don't forget to show-off your work to everyone else, too: deadline for the Type Directors Club is also Friday the 7th, get started entering for that here; the Art Directors Club gives you a little more time, with deadlines starting January 21st...

Fast News for January 4, 2011

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.

>> Meredith and Hearst reportedly ready to buy ELLE...

>> PBS's Mediashift column has a good rundown and analysis of the state of magazine iPad apps. Thanks to Magtastic Blogsplosion for the link...

>> Fortune: Why Digital Newsstands Stink. Another critical look at iPad magazine apps... and related news from the WSJ about Google's entry into the same Digital Newsstand wilderness...

>> Innovations in magazine publishing (print and digital): why some publications thrived in 2010....