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THURSDAY NIGHT! Illustrated Covers of Viva Lewes by Neil Gower

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!!Illustrator/graphic artist Neil Gower has been creating covers for monthly UK regional entertainment magazine Viva Lewes since 2007. Gower creates the complete cover, image, typography, and logo, using a different stylized treatment for each issue; he has illustrated... MORE

Cover of the Day: Beauty Inc

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Beauty Inc,  February 2016Creative Director: Nick MrozowskiArt Director: Linda RubesPhotographer: Christine Hahn Illustrator: Hattie Stewart___________________________________________________________________________________Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day? Send... MORE

Cover of the Day: Mother Jones

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Mother Jones  May-June 2015 Cesign Director: Ivylise Simones___________________________________________________________________________________Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day? Send us... MORE

Edel Rodriguez's "Controversial" Newsweek Cover Illustration

Last week's Newsweek cover, "What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women," stirred up a storm of controversy on social media, news sites, and TV. The cover, illustrated by Edel Rodriguez and art directed by Grace Lee, was attacked as "sexist," "ignorant,"... MORE

The Reader Comes First

By Robin Benson / Editor, Past PrintThe spreads below are from publications that I think were designed with the reader in mind. I've seen too many pages where it's clear that the words and images have been handled in a... MORE

Otto Storch: The Man Who Made Pictures Out of Type

By Robin Benson / Editor, Past PrintWhy was a male design student buying every issue of a leading woman's magazine in the late Fifties? To see what Otto Storch, Art Director of McCall's, was up to each month. He directed... MORE

Cover of the Day: mental_floss magazine: September, 2014

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.mental_floss magazine September, 2014Creative Director: Winslow TaftAssociate Art Director: Lucy QuintanillaIllustrator: Linzie HunterAnimator: Anthony Verduccimental_floss_animated_cover.mp4Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day?... MORE

From the SPD Archives: Time Magazine Covers, 1977

Time, July 4, 1977 Art Director: Walter Bernard; Designer: Seymour Chwast; Illustrator: Seymour ChwastTime was redesigned by Walter Bernard in 1977. Eight covers from that year appear in the SPD13 annual, including the July 4, 1977 issue (pictured above) which debuted the new... MORE

Cover of the Day: Time International

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.Time (international edition) March 31, 2014 Art Director: Victor WilliamsCreative Director: D.W. PineIllustrator: Ben Wiseman___________________________________________________________________________________Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of... MORE

The Business of Music: Billboard Magazine Covers

There's a nifty gallery of Billboard magazine covers, art directed by Andrew Horton, on the Newmanology site. For the past year Horton has been working with a strong redesign by Pentagram, and a powerful collection of photographers and illustrators who... MORE

Inspiring Covers and Front Pages Remember Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela's passing last week has inspired numerous magazine covers and newspaper front pages in his honor. We've collected some of our favorites, and will add more this week as additional covers are published. New York magazine has a great... MORE

A Cool (and Melting) GreenSource Cover

For the cover of the January/February 2013 issue of GreenSource, creative director Francesca Messina and art director Heather Haggarty utilized the talents of Ice Sculpture Designs to carve a cityscape out of a 200 pound block of ice, using a... MORE

Cover of the Day: Friday Edition

Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world.Room 100, Spring 2013Creative Director: Marne MayerDirector of Photography: Greg PondPhotographs: Ture LillegravenThis is one of four covers for this issue... MORE

Time Magazine Person of the Year

Time, December 31, 2012-January 7, 2013Photograph: Nadav KanderDesign director: D.W. Pine... MORE

The New Yorker Halloween Covers

One of our favorite annual rituals of magazine cover publishing is The New Yorker Halloween cover. Here's a collection of a dozen classics from the 21st Century, all art directed by Francoise Mouly.(Above): The New Yorker, November 6, 2000. Illustration:... MORE

Intermediair, R.I.P.

A few years ago my friend Ron Reason spent some serious time working (and playing) in Amsterdam. When he came back he posted on his blog a bunch of covers from an amazing weekly Dutch magazine called Intermediair, art directed... MORE

Creating Daily Magazine Covers at the Political Conventions

When Bloomberg decided to publish a daily magazine at the Republican and Democratic conventions this year, it was a natural choice for them to tap former Time art director Arthur Hochstein to be the creative force for their covers. Hochstein... MORE

Barry Blitt's Backstory

Barry Blitt created this striking watercolor for a New Yorker cover assignment. I asked him to give us the backstory:"This was one idea from a stack of end-of-summer sketches I sent in to the magazine. It's as close to a... MORE

Cover of the Day, October 11, 2010

Welcome to the newest feature on the SPD blog: The SPD Cover of the Day. We'll be posting our favorite covers every Monday and Wednesday. Stay tuned for the best and coolest magazine and newspaper covers, as selected by our... MORE