Grids: Covers: March 2010 Archives

Great (Mostly) White Covers

This week's Time Out New York cover, inspired a look back at strong covers that used very little ink.
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Covering the iPad

With April 3rd right around the corner, the iPad is getting the cover treatment. Here's a round up of recent iPad-centric covers from Macworld and WIRED. More TK as they hit the newsstands.… MORE

Face-Off: Tina Fey Covers

Covers 03.18.10 posted by Josh Klenert

Entertainment Weekly and Esquire hit newsstands this week with dueling Tina Fey covers. Which works best?

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Mark Burckhardt on the making-of his Texas Monthly cover

Covers 03.17.10 posted by The Editors

Over on Drawger there's an excellent behind-the-scenes look at this month's Texas Monthly cover (shown here) marking the 15th anniversary of Tejano singer Selena's tragic death. Illustrator Marc Burckhardt walks through the process from commission to drafts to completed cover (including subscriber versions without a UPC code--go TJ Tucker, Creative Director). Definitely worth the detour to Drawger this afternoon.

The greatest Oscar-winners magazine covers

Covers 03.06.10 posted by Robert Newman

In honor of the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 7, we've collected the greatest Oscar-winners magazine covers. We've got a small collection here at SPD, and you can see even more on this Facebook page. If you've got some Oscar-winner covers you designed or that you think we should see and add to our list, please sent them along.

This post was co-produced by Linda Rubes.

(Above): Isaac Hayes, Jet, May 4, 1972. Hayes won his Oscar for Best Original Song for the Theme from Shaft, from the movie Shaft. (1971).

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10 for 10

Covers 03.01.10 posted by The Editors

North Carolina native Criswell Lappin is celebrating his â€¨10th year as the Creative Director of Metropolis. In that time he has created some of the most beautiful and memorable covers in the industry. The highlight, he says, has been the collaborations he's enjoyed with likes of George Lois, John Fulbrook and more recently with Post Typography in the magazine's redesigned issue, "What's Next."

Making it ten years at a single publication is almost as accomplished as some of the great work that he has produced in that time. We've selected a few of our favorites covers and noted the name of the design collaborator when applicable: … MORE

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Covers: March 2010 Archives