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Los Angeles Magazine: Richard Scarry Homage

For a recent issue of Los Angeles magazine, design director Steven Banks assigned illustrator Ben KIrchner to create a spread infographic that referenced classic children's book illustrator Richard Scarry. The result, "What Do People Do All Day?" features over 30 characters in Scarry style. There are even characters representing the editors and art directors of Los Angeles magazine!

(On the turn page see the complete spread from Los Angeles, and click to increase its size.)
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Show Us Your Copy of My Favo(u)rite Magazine

Cool 10.22.13 posted by The Editors

My Favo(u)rite Magazine is the benefit project for art director Bob Newman, organized by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky. Following Bob's serious accident in March, Jeremy and Andrew reached out to a stellar cast of magazine makers, including Florian Bachleda, Luke Hayman, Josh Klenert, Arem Duplessis, Rudy VanderLans, Richard Turley, Tom Brown, Tim Leong, Matt Willey, Mario Garcia, Andy Cowles, Dirk Barnett, Simon Esterson, Joe Zeff, and many more. The result was a collection of 88 art directors, editors, illustrators, and other visual publication creators, with covers and commentary on their favorite magazines. It's a magazine lover's delight, and all the proceeds go to help Bob defray medical bills and living expenses while he continues his recovery.

To promote the magazine, a series of Bob's supporters have been taking snapshots of themselves holding My Favo(u)rite Magazine, in locations ranging from Barcelona to London to Los Angeles to the New York City subway. It also has popped up in a number of magazine offices, including The New Yorker and Metropoli in Madrid. We've collected 20 of our favorite snapshots here, and will be adding additional photographs over the next few weeks.

(Pictured above): The Huffington magazine design team: Martin Gee, Josh Klenert, Troy Dunham, Andrea Nasca

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Surfing + Espresso Bar + Apparel = Saturdays Surf

Cool 09.04.12 posted by Nathalie Kirsheh

....and now a bi annual magazine!
We caught up with Colin Tunstall, one of the co founders of Saturdays Surf The downtown NYC surf shop on Crosby St (with new locations--the West Village, and their Tokyo flagship,) and talked to him about his pseudo return to publishing as the editor-in-chief role in their first issue of Saturdays Magazine. while ringing in their 3rd anniversary. More after the jump...

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Pop-Up Magazine Comes to New York City

Cool 04.28.11 posted by Robert Newman

Pop-Up Magazine, A Live Event, is coming to New York City on May 11, at 7.30pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Co-produced with ESPN the Magazine, it's going to be "stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio live on stage," and will feature a stellar array of writers, editors, filmmakers, and artists, including contributors to The New Yorker, This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, Studio 360 and much more. Produced by a non-profit group of journalists, they've put on four Pop-Up magazine events in San Francisco over the past couple years, all of which have sold out.

The events are not documented, so we don't have any photographs or images that we can show here. We did interview Pop-Up Magazine editor Douglas McGray to get a sense of what the event is all about and what you can expect to see and hear.

Tickets for Pop-Up Magazine, A Live Event will go on sale Thursday, April 28 at noon here.
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Hollands Diep: Art Director Jaap Biemans

Cool 01.10.11 posted by Robert Newman

Hollands Diep is the Vanity Fair of the Netherlands. Jaap Biemans has been the art director there since April 2009. The busy Biemans is also the art director of weekly magazine Intermediair, and produces the wonderfully obsessive magazine cover website Coverjunkie.com. Hollands Diep is published every two months, and features a mix of photographs picked up from American glossies, as well as the photography of some of the best Dutch talent. The distinctive logo treatment and the original overall design of the magazine was created by Dutch designer Loes Koomen, when the magazine launched in 2007.

(Above): May 2010. Photograph by Mark Lidell.
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Star Wars Typographic Posters

Cool 12.08.10 posted by Robert Newman

The H-57 design studio, based in Milan, has created a set of Star Wars typographic posters. The portraits of Darth Vader, Yoda and a storm trooper are completely created with fonts. And best of all, the posters have a list of all the fonts and characters used, so you can make your own Star Wars faces at home!

(Above): Darth Vader. His mouth is a Rockwell Regular W.
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Reid Miles Blue Note LP Covers on Video

Cool 06.21.10 posted by Robert Newman

Check out this incredible video version of designer / typographer Reid Miles' Blue Note LP cover designs. It's an animated version of his LP covers, with some cool effects. A celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Blue Note label, it was directed by Bante, and is apparently some kind of Italian promotional item. It's an amazing tribute to Miles and three minutes of pure graphic design bliss. And for a complete collection of every Blue Note LP cover, visit this site here.

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