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• Posted Art Production Manager to Job Board
  A major men's magazine is seeking an Art Production Manager. This individual will manage all phases of art production with pre-press vendors, the art department and retouchers. He or she will be responsible for routing editorial changes to the Men's...
• Posted Freelance Designer to Job Board
  Large upscale men's magazine has an immediate opening for a full time freelance Designer to join an award-winning design team in our New York City office. Responsibilities include: -- work closely with the Art Director on all front-of-book pages and...
• Commented on Cover of the Day, October 24, 2011
  Awesome....
• Commented on GQ iPad App v2.0
  Looks really awesome, just what I expect from GQ. I can't wait to download this app tonight. Congrats to Fred and his awesome team over there....
• Commented on Blood Sweat and Ink! Creating The Village Voice Comics Issue
  Wow, this is great. Being a huge fan and supporter of illustration I am really impressed with this issue of The Village Voice.... a collector issue for sure. Hopefully the artists will get more exposure and make some money from...
• Commented on Bloomberg Businessweek
  This work is just fantastic... so great to see such exciting and smart work in a business mag. I love picking it up each week....
• Commented on Rare Specimen No. 2 <br/>Crown Jewels
  Wow, I love this... what a great hobby....
• Commented on Nick Dewar, 1973-2010
  I just spoke with Nick via email before the holidays, as he had recently completed two great illustrations for Bon Appetit's last two issues. I regret we never got to meet in person. He was so talented, professional, and very...
• Commented on The New York Rocker
  This stuff is really amazing. Makes me think how cool it would have been to be young and living in New York back then....
• Commented on Behind The New York Times Magazine's Redesign with DD Arem Duplessis
  Wow, this is so excellent. Thanks for posting the before and after images as it really adds insight into the process. Quite the accomplishment to produce such amazing work on such a demanding schedule....
• Posted An Interview with GOOD Guy Brian Rea to Grids
  I met illustrator/designer Brian Rea a couple of years ago when he did some cool illustrations for a special travel section in Bon Appétit. Recently, Brian was the guest art director for the award-winning GOOD magazine, "an entertaining magazine about...
• Commented on AIGA Awards 2015 Medal to former Black Panther Party Art Director (and Revolutionary Artist) Emory Douglas
  Wow, what a great post. Love this stuff....
• Commented on Portfolio Review
  This is great....thanks for posting this Catherine. Being on the west coast we miss out on a lot of events like this, so I appreciate it....
• Posted From Nagel to Niemann to Grids
  I recently visited the National Portrait Gallery in London which got me thinking about editorial portraits. In magazine design, more often than not, photography is the star of the show. But there are more great illustrators today than ever before,...
• Posted Cool Hunting to Grids
  When I was 9 years old, my uncle gave me a stamp collector's starter kit. I remember this moment clearly because it was the first time I was introduced to graphic design, and although I didn't know it at the time,...
• Commented on 9021-d'oh!
  I just saw a copy of the March 2009 issue of Pasadena Monthly yesterday.... Shannen apparently art-directed the cover, but even more shocking is that she is listed on the masthead as Editor-in-Chief!...
• Commented on Bangalore Bounty
  This is awesome... I want more! I actually went to India in 1999 and regret not taking more pictures of the signage, so I really appreciate this post. Makes me want to go back soon....
• Commented on Type-spiration
  Thanks for posting such large images... this is really cool....