News: October 2010 Archives

Fast News for October 28, 2010

Fast News for October 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.

>> Digital smart guy Khoi Vinh weighs in, with devastating effect, on magazine iPad apps: "In my personal opinion, Adobe is doing a tremendous disservice to the publishing industry by encouraging these ineptly literal translations of print publications into iPad apps." This is today's essential reading...

>> Cover Junkie is a great new magazine cover website, devoted to the latest covers from around the world. Published by Jaap Biemans, a graphic designer from the Netherlands, It's updated daily, and is lots of fun. Covers include everything from The New Yorker to Vice to Brazilian Playboy (which of course we study for its typographic elegance)...

>> The full run of legendary typographic newspaper/magazine U&lc is now being made available for downloading. The first year is available now, and the site promises a new year's worth of downloads every month. U&lc was edited and art directed by Herb Lubalin. Thanks to Magtastic Blogsplosion for the tip...
Fast News for October 26, 2010

Fast News for October 26, 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.

>> W creative director Jody Quon is leaving after just three issues at the magazine...

>> Florian Bachleda is the new creative director for Fast Company. He'll be overseeing the print magazine, digital projects, and the entire brand image...

>> "Making Sense of Early Sales for Magazines' iPad Editions," good data and analysis from Advertising Age that breaks down early sales numbers for seven titles...
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Fast News for October 21, 2010

Fast News for October 21, 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.

>> WSJ. ups its frequency to 9 issues in 2011 and 10 in 2012. Combined with the paper's lively new "Off Duty" section, this gives you more reason to dip into the Journal on weekends...

>> The New York Times dips into the Self redesign, starting with the issue on newsstands this week. Take a trip in the way-back machine with these stories about the Self redesign over 20 years ago and the fallout...

>> Did Jack Welch kill the much-anticipated Daily Newsbeast? Keith Kelly says he did...

>> Marie Claire's new Fashion A-Z iPad app is heralded for "thinking outside the magazine"; download it here...

>> Mediabistro reminds their readers about the SPD Speakeasy on October 27 with Time art director Arthur Hochstein, "Thinking Inside the (Red) Box"...
Fast News for October 19, 2010

Fast News for October 19, 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.

>> Wired CD Scott Dadich is officially leaving the mag to go full time as Conde Nast executive editor of digital-magazine development. And Wired announces sales results for their iPad apps post-the very successful (100,000 sold) first issue.....

>> Good interview with photographer Albert Watson about his new books, "UFO" and "Strip Search." Watson will be speaking at the SPD Speakeasy Series on November 2, get your tickets while you can...

>> "Did I Kill Gourmet Magazine?" Former Gourmet writer Ann Patchett details her 10 years of exorbitant expense-account travels for the magazine...
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Fast News for October 14, 2010

Fast News for October 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.

>> Neil Jamieson is the new Design Director for Money magazine. He has been the Deputy DD at People...

>> A lengthy review, with lots of pictures, of the new Esquire iPad app (thanks to Magculture.com for the tip)....

>> Prevention has a new creative director. Longtime CD Jill Armus is out, replaced by Peter Hemmel, who had been the CD of Life & Style Weekly...
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Fast News for Oct. 12, 2010

Fast News for Oct. 12, 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.

>> Longtime W art director Nathalie Kirsheh is leaving the mag to become design director at Details...

>> Esquire debuts its iPad app. It reads only in portrait (vertical) mode...

>> "Oprah Winfrey is the magazine industry's  No. 1 ambassador," says media reporter Jon Friedman, describing her appearance at the American Magazine Conference last week in Chicago...

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Fast News for October 7, 2010

Fast News for October 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.


>> The iPad is set to become the 4th-largest electronics category: "By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion"...

>> Nora Sheehan is the new creative director for Architectural Digest, which is now based in New York. She had previously been creative director at Travel + Leisure...

>> Ivylise Simones is the new design director at The New York Observer. She was previously art director of The Village Voice...
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Fast News for October 5, 2010

Fast News for October 5, 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.

>> Trade group The Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) has changed their name to MPA--The Association of American Media. Their new logo was designed by Paula Scher at Pentagram. Details on the logo design here...

>> Hugo Lindgren is the new editor at The New York Times Magazine...

>> Courtney Murphy has been promoted to creative director at Good Housekeeping. She's been the design director there since 2006...

>> The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announces the winners of their best magazine covers of the year contest...

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