April 2014 Archives

Who Will Be the SPD Pub 49 Magazine of the Year?

Who Will Be the SPD Pub 49 Magazine of the Year?

Who will be this year's Society of Publication Designers Magazine of the Year? Find out this Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala at 4 World Trade Center in New York City. The five nominees for Magazine of Year are: Achtung, Bon Appetit, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired. If you're not going to be at the Gala, follow @SPDTweets on Twitter (hashtag #SPD49) on Friday night for instant updates and winner announcements.
SPD Presents a Night of Cocktails, Schmoozing and Inspiring Work on the West Coast

SPD Presents a Night of Cocktails, Schmoozing and Inspiring Work on the West Coast

SPD West celebrated their NINTH Unsung Heroes of the American West event on Thursday, April 10th. We sold out the venue with a standing room only crowd of 150 west coast creatives. After an hour of drinking and schmoozing in the garden, we moved into the Studio 1342 space for the five presentations. And then back to the garden for more late-night partying. 

The theme of the night was "Passion Projects."  See the presentations and photos from the event after the jump. 


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Vote for the MEMBERS' CHOICE Award!

Vote for the MEMBERS' CHOICE Award!

Attention all SPD MEMBERS! It's Time to select your top choice for the only Gold Medal selected by all the members of the Society -- SPD Members' Choice.

You must be a current SPD member to participate.  Only one vote per member.  

You will find visual solutions presented as covers, as single pages or spreads. 

Your challenge is to apply your professional judgment and experience to choose the best from the category.



It may be design, photography, illustration or info-graphic. It

may be a cover that stuns you or a collection of work that overwhelms you.  Take a look after the jump...
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Last Day to purchase Tickets for Gala 49!

Last Day to purchase Tickets for Gala 49!

Buy Tickets Online Here

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Magazine of the Year Finalist #5: Wired

Magazine of the Year Finalist #5: Wired

SPD49-icon-2_100.pngOn Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala, we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Magazine of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of each finalist, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDtweets on Twitter with #SPD49.

The fifth of the five finalists for Magazine of the Year is Wired, Deputy Creative Director: Billy Sorrentino, Design Director: Cláudia de Almeida.… MORE

Tickets on Sale NOW For the 49th Annual SPD Awards Gala!

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Cover of the Day: Popular Science

Cover of the Day: Popular Science


coverofthedayicon-thumb-55x78-19105-thumb-53x75-19107-thumb-50x70-19108-1.jpgWelcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Popular Science May 2014 
Design DirectorTodd Detwiler
Photography Director: Thom Payne
Photographer: F. Scott Schaffer

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Popular Science recreated this classic Norman Rockwell cover from the 1920s with Nick Offerman standing in for the puzzled inventor. 

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Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day? Send us a jpeg of your cover with credit info to SPDsubmissions@gmail.com

Are Magazine Apps Dead?

Are Magazine Apps Dead?

Are iPad apps dead, or do they still have a bright future? This debate has been raging among app creators for some time, especially in the magazine-making world. Robert Newman has gathered some top app mavens for an online roundtable discussion of the current state of the art: Mario Garcia (Garcia Media), David Jacobs (29th Street Publishing), Josh Klenert (former CD of the Huffington magazine app), Jeremy Leslie (magCulture), and Joe Zeff (Joe Zeff Design). They've collected lots of smart thoughts on the Newmanology blog about the viability of apps, the impact and quality of Adobe DPS, why readers have failed to embrace digital magazines, and whether there's a future for art directors in creating them.

This is essential reading for anyone currently working in app creation and design or who is interested in the future of magazine publishing. On the follow page we've got some good excerpts from the app roundtable, and you can read the entire article here.


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Magazine of the Year Finalist #4: The New York Times Magazine

Magazine of the Year Finalist #4: The New York Times Magazine

SPD49-icon-2_100.pngOn Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala, we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Magazine of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of each finalist, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDtweets on Twitter with #SPD49.

The fourth of the five finalists for Magazine of the Year is The New York Times Magazine, design director: Arem Duplessis. MORE
Cover of the Day: Field & Stream

Cover of the Day: Field & Stream

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Field & Stream May 2014 
Design Director: Sean Johnston
Photography Director: John Toolan
Photographer: Art Streiber
Deputy Art Director: Pete Sucheski
Associate Art Directors: Russ Smith, James A. Walsh
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Licata

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Want to submit your cover to be considered for our Cover of the Day? Send us a jpeg of your cover with credit info to SPDsubmissions@gmail.com

Magazine of the Year Finalist #3: New York

Magazine of the Year Finalist #3: New York

SPD49-icon-2_100.pngOn Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala, we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Magazine of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of each finalist, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDtweets on Twitter with #SPD49.

The third of the five finalists for Magazine of the Year is New York, design director: Thomas Alberty. MORE
Magazine of the Year Finalist #2: Bon Appetit

Magazine of the Year Finalist #2: Bon Appetit

SPD49-icon-2_100.pngOn Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala, we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Magazine of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of each finalist, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDtweets on Twitter with #SPD49.

The second of the five finalists for Magazine of the Year is Bon Appetit, creative director: Alex Grossman. MORE
Cover of the Day: Rolling Stone

Cover of the Day: Rolling Stone


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Welcome to SPD's Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper covers from around the world.

Rolling Stone  April 24, 2014 
Design Director: Joseph Hutchinson
Creative Director: Jodi Peckman
Photographer: Mark Seliger

Read more about the recent tattoo cover controversy here

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Magazine of the Year Finalist #1: Achtung

Magazine of the Year Finalist #1: Achtung

SPD49-icon-2_200.pngOn Friday, May 2, at the SPD Gala, we'll be announcing the winner of this year's Magazine of the Year. Over the next two weeks we'll be running previews of each finalist, building up to the big celebration. Be sure to check in every day to see the best magazine design work of the past year, and be sure to follow @SPDtweets on Twitter with #SPD49.

The first of the five finalists for Magazine of the Year is Achtung, design director: Anton Ioukhnovets.
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Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Inside the Font World's $20 Million Divorce

Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Inside the Font World's $20 Million Divorce

Time for a coffee break, everyone, and your Wednesday longread: Bloomberg Businessweek has published the most detailed yet coverage about the lawsuit Tobias Frere-Jones filed against Jonathan Hoefler in January of this year, and their subsequent...divorce is just the only word that feels right here. 
 

For 15 years, Frere-Jones and Hoefler seemed charmed. They made typefaces that rendered the stock charts in the Wall Street Journal readable and helped Martha Stewart sell cookbooks. They created an alphabet for the New York Jets, based on the team's logo. And they saw their lettering chiseled into stone as part of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. Last year, the duo won the AIGA Medal, the profession's highest award. It seemed to be one of those rare situations whereby two successful soloists had combined to make an even better supergroup. Hoefler was asked if there were any troubles in their working relationship for a video produced for the AIGA in 2013. "We do have a longstanding disagreement over the height of the lower case t," he said. "That is the only point of contention."

Not quite. In January, Frere-Jones filed a lawsuit against Hoefler, saying that their company was not actually a partnership, but a long con in which Hoefler had tricked him into signing over the rights to all of his work, cheating Frere-Jones out of his half of the business. "In the most profound treachery and sustained exploitation of friendship, trust and confidence, Hoefler accepted all the benefits provided by Frere-Jones while repeatedly promising Frere-Jones that he would give him the agreed equity, only to refuse to do so when finally demanded," the complaint charges. Frere-Jones is asking a court to grant him $20 million. Hoefler won't comment on the suit directly, but the day after it was filed a lawyer for the company issued a brief statement disputing the claims, which, it said, "are false and without legal merit." (About Gotham's creation, Hoefler writes in an email: "No one is disputing Tobias's role in those projects, or my own, for that matter. [Our] typefaces have had a lot of other contributors, as well -- everything we do here is a team effort.") According to the company statement, Frere-Jones was not Hoefler's partner but a "longtime employee."

Though there was a lot of discussion this winter when the suit was originally filed, this report from writer Joshua Brustein, with quotes from design and typography-world luminaries Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut and James Montalbano, among others, gives some of most detail we've seen yet about the way the superstar duo (we can say that, because Major Typographers are stars to us) worked together--and maybe how it all fell apart. Although, as with any story of things coming to an end, there are surely many interpretations of the same story, Businessweek's piece is a must-read start. Read it in full here.


Other categories we considered for this one:
The Business Side
Break-Ups
Sad
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Student Portfolio Reviews on Wednesday: Last Chance!

Student Portfolio Reviews on Wednesday: Last Chance!

If you're a student who's looking for magazine design internships or about to graduate and applying for jobs, there is no better event out there for you than tomorrow night's SPD-U Portfolio Reviews (Wednesday, April 9, 7-9pm). Our awesome design pros are NOT there to judge; they're there to help you create the best freakin' portfolio you can possibly make so you can GET those jobs and internships. 

So no matter if you've got piles of printouts, a carefully-crafted book or just some images on your iPad, we want to see it!! You're guaranteed to get reviews with at least 2 of our pros, and you'll also get hands-on tutorials for launching your own portfolio website with the super-easy-to-use site-builder Wix.com. You'll be walking outta there with all your portfolios in order! Sign up to reserve your spot now, pre-registration is required and ends at 5pm on Wednesday. Get all the details here.
101 Kick-Ass Music Covers

101 Kick-Ass Music Covers

The new issue of Adweek magazine features the remarkable spread pictured below: 101 magazines with musicians on the cover. Compiled by Robert Newman and Adweek creative director Nick Mrozowski and executive editor Tony Case, it highlights 80 years of musical covers, from Eddie Cantor in 1937 to Kanye West and Questlove in 2014. In addition to many of our favorite popular magazines (Rolling Stone, Vibe, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wired), the collection also has classic covers from Spin, Blaze, Crawdaddy, Punk, The Source, Sassy, and more. 


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SPD's Pub 49 Best Brand Medal Finalist

SPD's Pub 49 Best Brand Medal Finalist

We all know that magazines aren't just "magazines" anymore. To be great, you have to be great on many platforms: print, tablet, mobile, website, and more. This category of the SPD Pub 49 competition recognizes true cross-platform excellence and shows how brands extend themselves consistently with the highest degree of visual excellence.

We very pleased to announce the medal finalists for the second annual SPD Best Brand award.
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Cover of the Day: Entertainment Weekly

Cover of the Day: Entertainment Weekly

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Entertainment Weekly Date, 2014 
Design DirectorTim Leong
Photo Editor: Lisa Berman
Photographer: Gavin Bond

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