SPD judging 2012
After a day sifting through the Magazine of the Year and Redesign categories, today is the main day of judging at the SPD47 Awards in New York.
Designs of the Year 2012
This year’s Designs of the Year show has opened at the Design Museum, with the usual eclectic mix of exhibits ranging from architecture to miniature vacuum cleaners via a wedding dress, an ambulance and some websites. Plus, of course, a few editorial projects. Here they are.
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Richard Turley interviewed. From favourite covers to favourite pub.
UPDATE: Daily Mail try to stir up a fuss.
A beautiful collection of vintage Vogue images.
Forgotten about Rupert Murdoch’s daily app ‘newspaper’ The Daily? You’re not alone (thanks Matt).
Mewanwhile, Murdoch’s News International trials Facebook ‘magazine’.
A lovely bit of story-telling; William Owen points us at The Guardian’s use of agency pictures to report last week’s Madrid–Barcelona derby.
Now on at the Saatchi: ‘Fifty Years of the Sunday Times Magazine’, showcasing photography from the magazine.
Coming soon: Paris
Paris is a new title from Cape Town’s The President, the people behind MK Bruce/Lee, Afro and Menu.
Creative director Peet Pienaar explains the idea behind the magazine, ‘With all the radical changes in the world, the South’s influence is becoming very important. This magazine is an effort to shift the world’s attention to all the wonderful things happening in the South.’ Produced as a collaboration between the studios offices in Cape Town and Buenos Aires, it’ll be trilingual (English, Spanish and Portugese) and launches in April this year.
Interview Germany
The German edition of Interview launched last week, with 032c team Joerg Koch (editor) and Mike Meiré (art director) at the helm. Photograph by Sean+Seng.
Novum’s geodesic front cover
For their November issue Novum magazine commissioned Hamburg design agency Paperlux to develop a front cover inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome structures. Most of this video records the making of the cover – check around 3.5m for a glimpse of the finished effect.
Harper’s Bazaar redesigned
Robin Derrick, late of British Vogue, has just completed his redesign of Harper’s Bazaar. The inside is yet to be revealed, but here’s the cover.
First impression? Looks like another tribute to Bazaar icon Alexey Brodovitch.
UPDATE: The cover that originally appeared here, left, is the subscriber issue. The right-hand cover is the newstand edition.
Beryl’s City
Here’s the latest cover of Luxembourg’s City magazine. As posted before, each issue changes name according to match that of the (non-celebrity) person featured on the cover. Beryl takes the magazine to her favorite spa, a nice twist to the series.
A little D&AD history
It being their 50th anniversary this year, D&AD have been pushing out lots of historical winning work from those years, and we’ve just received a bunch of jpegs of magazine and newspaper winners that are a little random but interesting nonetheless. Starting, above, with a late nineties iteration of The Guardian Weekend tabloid features section.
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Scotland-based designer Matthew Ball carries out a quick voxpop on the latest Marie Claire front cover.
ImageSource round up five tasty food magazines; note to self – must catch up with Lucky Peach.
Footage from the Time Out offices (circa mid eighties?) – typewriters, Atex terminals and smoking indoors. Lots of smoking.
Last-minute event news: tonight at the V&A Steve from Stack will be discussing independent magazines along with Lucy and Tina from Lost in London.
