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An Interview with GOOD Guy Brian Rea

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 things that matter." Being a loyal subscriber to GOOD since its inception and a big fan of Brian's work, I took the opportunity to have a conversation with him about his past, present and future. Here he tells us all about the creative process behind the last two issues of GOOD, risking his life at the office, and why he thinks L.A. doesn't suck.
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GK Investigation > > > Clips finally released to SPD

***N*E*W*S*  *R*E*L*E*A*S*E***

After many months of negotiation, and many months of fine tuning the details, the undercover magazine industry investigation group known as GKI, or GK Investigation, is finally able to release numerous clips to the Society of Publication Design, SPD, for use on their blog.
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Is Graphic Design Art?

Another Tuesday, another chance to change the world with your vote.
Is graphic design art? Vote here, and leave your thoughts in the exit poll (ok, comments)...

Luke Hayman on the Best and Worst Magazine Design Trends

Pentagram's Luke Hayman, one of the magazine industry's most respected and prolific designers, was filmed at "FOLIO:Show 2008" discussing the best and worst trends of 2008.

Watch the video after the jump.
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Gray Areas (To Be Sure)

A reader asked:

I would love to hear comments on what to do when an illustrator takes an art director's creative concept and uses it in another publication.

Recently, I hired an illustrator. Gave him a clear concept of what we wanted executed. The illustrator did the work (not deviating from this concept) but we decided to kill the illustration because it wasn't meeting our needs aesthetically. Paid the illustrator in full. We ended up with a more graphic interpretation that we did in-house. The illustrator took our concept and his illustrations that he did for us and sold them to a competing publication (that came out the same week as ours).

Although the artwork was property of the illustrator, it was our creative concept.... What do you do in this situation? Seems like a gray area.

Our thoughts...
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