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O.R.D.: Outdoor Retailer Daily

Matthew Bates, creative director of the Outdoor Group (which includes Backpacker magazine, among others), took a team of smart visual folks to the Outdoor Retailer trade convention in Salt Lake City to create a daily magazine/newsletter. Along with senior art... MORE

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Matthew Bates Promoted to CD for Outdoor Group

Matthew Bates, Design Director for Backpacker, is now the Creative Director for Outdoor Group, with creative oversight of their six main titles, including Climbing, Urban Climber, Peaks, SNEWs, Backpacker and the National Park Trips titles.If you've got news or tips... MORE

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PUB 46 Merit Winners Announced

Following up on the Medal Finalists announcement of last Friday, we're happy today to share the officially verified list of Print and Digital Merit winners for PUB 46 today. Official letters, submission information for the PUB 46 Annual, and advance... MORE

Three Questions for Matthew Bates, DD at Backpacker

You're one of the only Editorial Creatives I'm aware of who directs both the print and digital versions of the brand. If that wasn't tough enough I understand you have a small staff of only three?  How do you juggle... MORE

American Cowboy

Backpacker's Design Director, Matthew Bates, shares some highlights from sister mag (and new HQ fave!) American Cowboy:This past fall I had the opportunity to, temporarily, trade in my hiking boots and work on the redesign of our sister publication, American... MORE

Medal Finalists Announced:
Rare Specimen Samples of PUB 45

The results of a great judging weekend? A fantastic selection of medal finalists, with competition so tight that in a very few instances, there are ties that can't be broken: Gold and Silver Medals from the following list of Medal... MORE

Backpacker: Rip & Go!

Matthew Bates, DD at Backpacker, sends along a look at some new pages:Here at Backpacker, we are constantly trying to come up with new ways to create unique pages that help go beyond the beautiful scenic photo. We are blessed... MORE

PUB 44 Medal Finalists Announced!

Best in Show: A competition whereby dogs designs are judged as to which one is considered to be the most closely conformed to its written breed standard of excellence.We've seen the best, and from a wider variety of magazines than... MORE

Backpacker

Ask and ye shall receive: from Matthew Bates, Design Director at Backpacker, some work from their Adventure Travel issue. We just finished up our Adventure Travel issue here at Backpacker. Because we are primarily a magazine that focuses on North... MORE