August 2013 Archives

As your school year gets under way, hopefully we can soften some of that end-of-summer-sadness with an exciting event ... our SPD-U Pub(lications) Crawl! This is an annual day-long event where you'll get to tour the offices of two fantastic magazines and/or design firms for an in-depth look at the way things really work.

We have a truly amazing group of tour hosts ... Bon Appetit, Fortune, More, The New Yorker, Nylon, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Popular Mechanics and Pentagram!!! They're all getting ready to give you exclusive behind-the-scenes access, so come armed with your curiosity and questions, and prepare yourself for a very unique tour of great magazine-making. Space is very limited, so RSVP now to reserve your spot. Read on to find out how...



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In the spirit of our New Work series over on the main Grids blog, and following up on all the awesome work we saw in our SPD-U Spotlight Show, we're showcasing some great recent student publication design in our New Work: Student Publications series. If you want to submit YOUR school pub, look for details at the end of this post.

Today we'd like to introduce you to Rochester Institute of Technology's Positive/Negative magazine. Features Editor Emily Levine (a recent graphic design graduate who's now working in NYC) shares the most recent issue of the mag with us...