Results tagged “alt weekly” from Grids

The Village Voice: An Art Directors' History

Pictured above is the final cover of the final print edition of The Village Voice, which hits the streets on September 20. Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah, art director: Ashley Smestad Vélez.Since its founding in 1955 The Voice provided a venue for a... MORE

A Photo Editor Remembers The Village Voice

By Meg HandlerThis week, the The Village Voice will cease publication of its print edition. [Editor's note: The final print issue of The Voice will publish on Wednesday, September 20.]  For so many of us who still work (or don't... MORE

From Newsprint to Museum: Curating Comics

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comIn a wonderful moment of synergy here at Grids' Alt Week, the exhibition Alt-Weekly Comics is now up at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. I got the chance to ask curators Warren Bernard and Bill Kartalopoulos about... MORE

From Ward Sutton's Vault: "Start Your Own Publication"

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comIn 1991, I was living in Minneapolis and working as a cartoonist and kind-of assistant art director for the alt weekly Twin Cities Reader, when I decided to move to Seattle. I arrived with one job interview scheduled... MORE

SF Weekly Covers by Andrew J. Nilsen

Andrew J. Nilsen has been the art director at altweekly SF Weekly for the past three years. During that time he's art directed over 150 covers, many of them self-illustrated (and one, featuring an illustration by Brian Stauffer won a... MORE

Smart alternative weekly covers from Westword

Denver-based Westword is another alternative weekly newspaper producing brilliant and original cover design. Jay Vollmar has been the art director of Westword for 10 years. Check out his website here. Vollmar comes from a rock poster background (his website has examples of his highly-cool poster... MORE