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VINTAGE Magazine's Lavish

VINTAGE Magazine's Lavish "Quatrieme" Issue Launches

VINTAGE is a lavishly produced magazine that "brings to the fore, with the eloquent voices of today's writers and artists, the impact of history on our present culture. The term vintage is used in its broadest sense-- focusing on the excellence of, the finest of things, both in content and presentation." Like the legendary FLAIR, from which it draws inspiration, Vintage pushes the possibilities of print, paper, color, photography, and texture, while offering an array of articles--on art, music, fashion, food, travel, culture--written by noted artists and authors of today. SPD's Francesca Messina talked with founder Ivy Baer Sherman about the unique processes that shaped the latest issue, Vintage Quatrieme.

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All Things Engraved

All Things Engraved

By Leslie De La Vega, Director of Photography, Fast Company

I was talking to someone recently who told me she had just finished a book and is about to embark on the book tour.  She told me it was a book on engraving, not the kind your father once did with an engraving tool on all your worldly possessions like your tricycle or old wooden treasure box. No, this is something more artful and beautiful...art engraved on paper.  The book is called The Complete Engraver by Nancy Sharon Collins....

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LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 2

LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 2

Beginning this month, SPD is introducing Look, an ongoing series that will highlight the images that are inspiring, piquing, and stirring up conversation in various magazines' photography departments. Think of it as an ever-changing moodboard. First up: GQ's photography department, led by Dora Somosi.

See what they're looking at after the jump...
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LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 1

LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 1

Beginning this month, SPD is introducing Look, an ongoing series that will highlight the images that are inspiring, piquing, and stirring up conversation in various magazines' photography departments. Think of it as an ever-changing moodboard. First up: GQ's photography department, led by Dora Somosi.

See what they're looking at after the jump...
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Ward Sutton: The Movie Title Stills Collection

Ward Sutton: The Movie Title Stills Collection

Ward Sutton shares this "Awesome collection of movie title graphics" from The Movie Stills Collection. Great stills from 1920 to today. More images after the jump.




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Greg Grabowy: Outside

Greg Grabowy: Outside

Esquire has tried it, EW has tried it. Now Alexx Henry envisions the pages of Outside in motion.

Greg Grabowy shared this behind-the-scenes video with us on Facebook -- check it after the jump...  

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Emblem & Type

Emblem & Type

James Reyman found this great photo Flickr set of typographic car emblems. Check 'em out.

Matt Willey: The Wrestler

Matt Willey: The Wrestler

From Matt Willey, Creative Director at Studio8 Design in the UK and that meticulous detailer of the process of page design (still one of our favorite videos at HQ), thoughts on some classics from the poster vault:
I wrote a short blog recently for Eye magazine about some old boxing posters from the 30's and 40's that I had found. They are very appealing to me for many reasons; the typefaces used, the arrangement of the type, the straightforwardness of them, the colours. So, from boxing to wrestling....
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Josef Reyes: One of Print Magazine's New Visual Artist for 2009 Shares a New Favorite

Josef Reyes: One of Print Magazine's New Visual Artist for 2009 Shares a New Favorite

Remy Charlip's "Arm In Arm" is a children's book I picked up at the Antiques Garage flea market on 25th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. The illustrations in "Arm in Arm" are delightful and intelligent, but what I find most remarkable about this book is the way in which the illustrations acknowledge and exploit the physical properties of the page.

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Anton Ioukhnovets: Inspired By Moving Pictures

Anton Ioukhnovets: Inspired By Moving Pictures

Lately, I've been inspired by moving pictures rather than print. Hayao Miyazaki has been a ray of sunshine in my head lately.

His imagination just blows me away. I wish I had Totoro as a Neighbor, commuted to work on the Cat bus, married Princess Nausaca and sent my depressed soul to the special bathhouse in the sky to cleanse it from the everyday bullshit.




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Jeremy Leslie: Some Faves from the Magazine Blogger from Across the Pond

Jeremy Leslie: Some Faves from the Magazine Blogger from Across the Pond

Many of my favourite independent magazines have recently published excellent new issues. Dutch fashion title Fantastic Man continues to lead the way in men's titles, providing influential directions in both art direction and design and in balancing serious editorial with a knowing sense of intelligent, ironic humour. Helsinki's Kasino A4 presents a melancholic Finnish look at the modern world, this time focusing on our sex lives. Moving across Scandinavia to Norway, Carl*s Cars continues to examine the relationship between people and cars in its charmingly gentle way.
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Julia Moburg: I can't stop looking at Giles Revell

Julia Moburg: I can't stop looking at Giles Revell

"Nature can design better than you, fool,"  captures a principle I learned in art school. Our professors instilled the idea that nature had already produced a multitude of design solutions with integrity, utility, and innate beauty. If we could just turn down the Joy Division, pay her some attention, and use what we observed in our own work (biomimicry being the sincerest form of flattery), the rewards would be plentiful.  … MORE
Andre Jointe: Beautiful Decay

Andre Jointe: Beautiful Decay

One thing that I've kept my eye on for some time now are aging and disintegrating posters. What starts out as an immaculate cinema, theater or museum poster ends up looking like a collage of different typography, colors and textures all in one from the multiple layers passer biers have torn off. Another cool aspect is that it's like an artwork collaboration of the posters' original designers, with the city locals adding their own disheveling touch.  Although they're an eyesore for some people, there is an inherent beauty that draws me to them.  … MORE

"I'll Eat Anything"

Can't live on magazines alone! I am like a goat: I'll eat anything. Ed Ruscha paintings and Max Huber posters are great, but so are photoblogs of vintage bottle caps, comic books (old and new), and mod pharmaceutical packaging. Look around: hand-painted signs at a butcher, 70's muscle cars, those receipts the conductor gives you when you have to buy your ticket on the train. It's all eye food. Eat up.

--Tom Alberty, Deputy Art Director, GQ
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"I've Retreated to a Safer Place"

Whenever I'm in Universal (on Broadway) I get kind of panicky. It's all too good... there is too much of it. The goodness I mean. Even pets have good magazines now. Foil and fluorescent, matte stock and UV--there is so little to distinguish the good from the bad. And where is the ugly? The mediocre? The crap? That by which we behold the awesome! The foil for the foil?
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"Ruptured? Get Relief This Proven Way!"

I love me some Pop Mechanics.

Old, as in 1940's old.

If I were a shrink, I'd hand them out to my patients after sessions, because you can't seriously dive into one without smiling, and be reminded of better times. What other magazine lists the five quintessential rules for under sea movie making, illustrates how a juke box is disassembled, then reassembled, or shows you how to eavesdrop through 24 feet of steel? Well, maybe WIRED. But the real reason we should all pick up an old POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE are the ads. They're chock-full of gorgeous old retro typefaces and hand-drawn clip art, and the pages in general serve as a never ending pool for ideas, humor, and inspiration. "STOP DAY-DREAMING AT WORK!", "LET US SHOW YOU HOW TO MOUNT BIRDS!", "LEARN PLASTICS!", and my favorite, "RUPTURED? GET RELIEF THIS PROVEN WAY! 

--T.J. Tucker, Art Director, Texas Monthly

"Knocks My Socks Off"

This might not seem original to the photo world. But I've been really getting into the stock site Photoshelter.com. It's really made looking through collections of stock imagery more interesting, actually refreshing. The site has 37,000 photographers around the world uploading their images everyday. So it's a great place for me to find fresh and most importantly contemporary images. Also a good place to find photographers for assignment. (More of Leslie's thoughts on stock photography, and the finer details of photo editing at Time, at Rob Haggart's blog, APhotoEditor.com. --Ed.)
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"Here's a list of things currently sitting on or under my coffee table"

Magazines
Huge (Japan), Summer 2008
Popeye (Japan), July 2008
Monocle (GB), May 2007 and Aug 2008
Studio Voice (Japan), July 2008
Transworld Skateboarding, Aug 2008
W, July 2008
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"The Covers Are Wild and Illegible (and Totally Inspiring!)"

Lately I've been looking at issues of House Beautiful from the late 1960s. I love the pages of illustrated merchandise. It's so modern!

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"I Raved About It To My Magazine Store Clerk."

I hate to say it but I have been ogling the latest issue of Bon Appétit. It was the cover that got me! I wanted to eat up that ice cream cone right there in the magazine store. I raved about it to my local magazine store clerk. Asking him how many people have bought it? Who is buying it? Does he like the cover? (Magazine clerks know their covers!) Bon Appétit has exquisite typography, the structure is inviting and the photography is slick and tangible.

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