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Posted Inc. Magazine: Inside the Redesign to Grids
Increased commitment to photography: Check.Attention to dynamic pacing: Check. Focus on typography and "visiting fonts"(!?!): Check and Check!The new look of Inc. magazine, which is on sale now, is a surprising and dynamic rethink of the 30 year old title. It showcases some...
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Posted RIP James Gandolfini, 1961-2013 to Grids
Sad news about the passing of James Gandolfini. The icon of American stage and screen died in Rome yesterday. The actor was best known for his role in The Sopranos as Tony Soprano, a troubled crime boss struggling to balance his...
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Posted Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow: Redesigning Cycle World to Grids
It's been a busy few months for the award winning design and photo teams over at Bonnier's Outdoor Group. Design Director Sean Johnston is the head of design for the group which includes SPD faves Field & Stream and Outdoor Life. Since taking...
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Posted My Favorite Magazine ... Benefiting the Friends of Bob Newman Fund to Grids
Magazine guru and friend of SPD Jeremy Leslie is making a magazine along side Andrew Losowsky...and he wants YOUR help! This fast, one-off publication with the working title "My Favorite Magazine" will be published as a print-on-demand project through magcloud and every single...
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Posted Texas Monthly: TJ Tucker's tour of the redesign. Part 2 to Grids
Last fall everyone's favorite regional mag Texas Monthly underwent a total redesign under the creative direction of TJ Tucker and his team. Seven issues in TJ Tucker gives us some highlights. In part one we got a look at some...
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Posted Texas Monthly: TJ Tucker's tour of the redesign. Part 1 to Grids
Last fall everyone's favorite regional mag Texas Monthly underwent a total redesign under the creative direction of TJ Tucker and his team. Actually to call TM a regional maybe doing it something of a disservice. As we all know, everything...
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Posted A New Look Field & Stream to Grids
Over the last few months Field & Stream Design Director Sean Johnston and his hard working art and photo teams have been pretty busy. Not only do they now over-see the design and production of all the Bonnier outdoor titles (including Outdoor...
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Posted Men's Health's Best Life returns to Grids
Men's Health US recently bucked the "digital only" trend with the re-release of their luxury men's lifestyle magazine Best Life. The Fall/Winter issue hit newstands recently chock-full of the same great photography, elegant typography and smart design that put BL...
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Posted Priest and Grace's Howler! to Grids
Remember that feeling of genuine excitement you'd get when you were a kid the night before your favorite comic was due to show up in your mail box...for me it was Roy of the Rovers and I was about 7...
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Posted Co-chairs for PUB 48 Announced to Grids
SPD is delighted to announce the co-chairs for PUB 48, the world's most prestigious publication design competition. Taking the reins this year will be Good Housekeeping Creative Director Courtney Murphy and Garden & Gun Art Director Marshall McKinney. We're in safe...
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Posted Southern Living: Redesigning an Institution to Grids
Few brands in publishing have as dedicated a readership as the 46 year old regional lifestyle magazine Southern Living. So how do you go about evolving the design of brand with such reader loyalty...carefully...as Design Director Robert Perino explains......
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Posted Celebrating a quarter century of CN Traveler to Grids
The 25th anniversary issue of Conde Nast Traveler (available at news stands both print and digital now!) is an extraordinary body of work and represents all that Design Director Rob Hewitt has been able to bring to the title since...
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Posted Blood Sweat and Ink! Creating The Village Voice Comics Issue to Grids
In early February Village Voice Art Director John Dixon and his team had a great idea: Instead of using a ton of photo and pickup art to populate the pages of the iconic paper, why not use comic illustration... heck...
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Posted Sun, Sans and Serifs: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2011 to Grids
Fed up with the gloom of a seemingly endless winter, ready for a blast of sun, sand and serifs (heck this is a design blog after all!)...well this should blow the cobwebs off! Today sees the US release of the...
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Posted Three Questions: At Home with Illustrator Noma Bar to Grids
Norma Bar has been taking the international world of editorial illustration by storm for over ten years. You've seen his strikingly graphic award winning images in publications such as UK Esquire, The Economist, Men's Health, The New York Times, Wallpaper,...
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Posted Pimp my Data! to Grids
Cool motion info graphics are nothing especially new, but when they start popping up at the end of Will Ferrell movies they certainly do grab your attention. In a bid to get the lucky attendees of Steve Duenes' "Art +...