News: February 2011 Archives

Fast News for February 24, 2011

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.

>> Google Books has archived all the issues of SPY, going back to the 1986 launch, here...

Fast News for February 17, 2011

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.

>> Reading the tea leaves: various takes on Tuesday's news about Apple's iTunes subscription service from the glass half-empty points Andrew Losowsky makes at Magtastic Blogsplosion, and PaidContent's counter-point response...

>> TIME debuts a new look ("not a redesign; a facelift") with Friday's edition; Tina Brown's showing an updated version of Newsweek around; Keith Kelly calls it "a sweeping overhaul"...

>> FOLIO:'s annual Eddie and Ozzie winners announced and profiled; remember, SPD PUB 46 Awards winners announced tomorrow! Check the site at noon...

Fast News for February 15, 2011

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 March issue of Details debuts a non-celeb cover and introduces a new section focused on health and fitness, called "The Body."… MORE

Fast News for February 10, 2011

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.

>> Obligatory Tablet news: Apple is opening up about the subscription issue for the iPad, while Time Inc. will be selling digital subscriptions for the HP Tablet...

>> Vanessa Holden is leaving the EIC spot at Martha Stewart Living for a job as the SVP of Creative Services at West Elm. She had been CD at Real Simple before moving to MSLO...

>> Get to know an editor, pt 1: WWD's profile of Bloomberg Businessweek EIC Josh Tyrangiel quotes our own GRIDS coverage of the business mag's redesign by CD Richard Turley...

>> Get to know an editor, pt 2: Bon Appetit's new EIC, Adam Rappaport, says he's "a firm believer that if a page doesn't look great, people aren't going to stop to read it. It needs to be a very visually driven magazine..."

Fast News for February 3, 2011

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.

>> Alex Gonzalez is the new CD at W...

>> Missing an update from the Best! Books! Ever! series? Visit Designers & Books, a new site collecting (so far) 50 designers and their 677 favorite must-reads...

>> Alexandra Pollack is the new PE for the relocated-to-NYC Bon Appetit...

Fast News for February 1, 2011

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.

>> iPad Magazines Need a New Blueprint: they should be free, and be more like media apps and less like PDF readers....

>> MoMA's adding 23 digital typefaces to their permanent collection, a first for the NYC museum; the chosen ones include Verdana, Gotham, OCR-A and more, all on view starting March 2 at the Standard Deviations exhibit opening March 2nd...

>> Hearst closes the deal and now owns ELLE, Woman's Day and other Hachette titles...