Respect: May 2010 Archives

Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

May 24 was Bob Dylan's 69th birthday. That makes it a good time to look at some classic Dylan magazine covers. Here are a half dozen of our favorites, from 1962-2010.… MORE

The Newsweek Cover Legacy

We were saddened to hear the news last week that Newsweek has been put up for sale by its owner, the Washington Post. We've always been fans of the magazine, and it has a strong visual heritage, particularly on its covers. Newsweek's covers haven't been collected into an online archive like Time's, so unfortunately they're not accessible as a body of work. We dug deep into our archives and collected some of the coolest Newsweek covers from the past 50 years. Let's hope someone smart (and with a lot of money) buys Newsweek and maintains this heritage.… MORE

Meet the Fortune Art Department, 1947

What was it like to work in the Fortune art department in 1947? The obsessive Fortune online archive Full Table has a scan of an issue of Time Inc's in-house journal FYI completely devoted to answering that question. There's a photo and bio of every art department member, plus background info on how they put pages together, handle production and printing, research photographs, and much more. We find out that the staff refers to art director Will Burtin as "The Human Art Director."… MORE