News: September 2010 Archives

Fast News for September 30, 2010

Fast News for September 30, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.


>> Art director Bryan Erickson is leaving Foreign Policy for a gig at The Wall Street Journal, working on new print projects for the newspaper. His replacement will be Dennis Brack, who is currently design director at The Washington Post...

>> 40th anniversary of The New York Times op-ed page. They've put together a great historical video, with interviews with illustrators and art directors...

>> Type designer Matthew Carter was the recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur "genius" award, announced on September 28...
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Fast News for September 28, 2010

Fast News for September 28, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Former Newsweek Director of Photography SImon Barnett is now Director of Photography for Life.com...

>> Pentagram's Luke Hayman led the redesign of Better Homes and Gardens, which debuts this week. He worked with the magazine's art director, Michael Belknap. We'll have a more detailed post soon, but in the meantime, you can see the pages here.....

>> Criswell Lappin is leaving Metropolis magazine after 10 years as creative director. He'll be leading a design team at Fahrenheit 212. The new AD at Metropolis will be Dungjai Pungauthaikan...


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Fast News for September 24, 2010

Fast News for September 24, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Covered as much by the foodie blogs as the media ones, news earlier this week that not only is Condé Nast's remaining food magazine, Bon Appétit, moving to NYC, but Editor Barbara Fairchild is parting ways with the magazine as well. Design Director Matthew Lenning left the title earlier in the summer.

>> Nancy Butkus is leaving the New York Observer to become Special Projects Art Director at Fairchild, working with former Observer editor Peter Kaplan...

>> Teenage Paparazzo -- a look at celebrity through the eyes of a young photographer -- premieres on HBO.


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Fast News for September 16, 2010

Fast News for September 16, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Watch the #NewTwitter video here...

>> "On the internet, you're not on a human publishing cycle anymore. You're on a machine publishing cycle." More from Khoi Vinh, former Design Director for NYTimes.com, and his thoughts on news, design and the current state of news design, in this video...

>> Andrew Horton is the new creative director of Billboard...
Fast News for September 14, 2010

Fast News for September 14, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Lots of shake-ups at Town & Country now that new editor Stephen Drucker is in the house. Several editors have been let go, and late last week art director Agnethe Glatved resigned...

>> Vogue.com relaunches...

>> Wallpaper* makes their cover "move"...

>> New editor Janice Min, formerly of US Weekly, is taking her new title Hollywood Reporter weekly and glossy, to "compete with the blogs." The summer staff-up continues...

>> Don't forget to vote in ASME and Amazon's Best Magazine Cover contest...

>> Apple is rumored to be readying the next version of the iPad for pre-Xmas release. It's going to come with video conferencing capability....
Fast News for September 9, 2010

Fast News for September 9, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Conde Nast has named former Jane and Elle Girl editor Brandon Holley as editor in chief of Lucky magazine. She will succeed founding editor Kim France. Holley has been working as editor in chief for the Yahoo women's site Shine....

>> The New York Observer redesign debuted on Wednesday, done by design director Nancy Butkus. See sample pages from the new issue here...

>> More layoffs coming at Newsweek. Yesterday management announced that it's laying off 25% of employees by September 24...

>> New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger admits they will "stop printing" the paper sometime in the future, but that date is "TBD". We're hoping it's a future far, far away...

>> Long, in-depth interview with Maxim creative director Dirk Barnett, with lots of work samples. Don't miss this one!...
Fast News for September 7, 2010

Fast News for September 7, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> R.I.P. longtime LA Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for his pointed, liberal-leaning cartoons, which appeared in daily newspapers for six decades...

>> Mark your calendars! SPD is presenting an iPad evening on September 22, featuring magazine art directors talking about their first generation apps....and what comes next. Tickets are going to sell out fast, so watch the website for info very soon...

>> Weekly newspaper New York Observer launches redesign this Wednesday, abandons much of their front page caricature illustration for photo illustration....

>> Growth is good: Wenner's Men's Journal is picking up one of the issues it eliminated as a cost-cutting measure in 2010: the July issue will be back in 2011. People StyleWatch will also add an 11th issue.

>> The Atlantic to follow paid iPad edition with new 'Atlantic Premium'
Fast News for September 2, 2010

Fast News for September 2, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> Bon Appetit design director Matthew Lenning has left the magazine and is moving to Austin to start his own studio....

>> Katherine Van Itallie is the new art director at Redbook...

>> GQ art director Anton Ioukhnovets is leaving to freelance...

>> Kate Elazegui has left her position as design director of Money magazine to become creative director at SYPartners, a design/strategy/innovation firm....

>> Jennifer Miller is the new photography editor at New York magazine. She was previously photography director at Cosmopolitan...

>> Paste magazine, the indie music publication based in Georgia, announced on September 1 that it's ceasing publication...

>> Apple announced that iOS 4.2 will be released in November, finally bringing iOS 4.x support to the iPad. The free update will include multitasking, wireless printing as well as a new feature called AirPlay, which replaces AirTunes. AirPlay will offer streaming of video, music, and photos.

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