Posted Praising The Drawbridge to Grids
Visiting London recently, I got my first hands-on chance to appreciate The Drawbridge. It calls itself a magazine, but it can be more specifically described with two words that almost never appear side-by-side: new broadsheet....
Posted Paris, Bound to Grids
If you're lucky enough to get to Paris, wandering along the aged, off-kilter, one-lane sidestreets of Le Marais is an instantly nostalgia-inducing joy. Sometimes it becomes surreally anachronistic, and the other day, strolling the too-narrow sidewalk of rue de Sévigné,...
Posted Eyes of the Hurricane to Grids
Even as New Orleans mops up from the pummeling of Gustav, the story of Katrina still echoes. What must it be like to live through the most deadly natural disaster in American history? We've seen it covered in words and...
Posted Church? State? L.A. Times Mag Launch Plays With the Paradigm to Grids
On September 7th, the Los Angeles Times re-launches its magazine, to be titled LA (with clear, though unspoken, deference to the success of the New York Times' T). So why has the staff been hired by the ad side, not...
Posted How Logo Can You Go? (A ChiTrib quiz for mag nerds) to Grids
As a sidebar to their annual "Our Fifty Favorite Magazines" feature, the Chicago Tribune has compiled a little test for all you (um...we) type-weenies with a competitive streak. Careful, there's one trick question. (Otherwise I'd have gotten them all. Grrrr.)...
Posted Blitt Storm to Grids
When the controversy erupted over The New Yorker's now-infamous cover "The Politics of Fear" last week (showing a fear-monger's vision of a post-inaugural Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office), perhaps your first thoughts were not of the effect...