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St Brides have a two-day conference about DIY Design coming up (27 & 28 May). Good all-round line up but day two features the Manzine team and Alex and Will from It’s Nice That.
Time magazine catches up with the Newspaper Club.
The ‘will print die’ discussion continues with this report from the US National Magazine Awards evening, see comments after report.
Design Related takes a closer look at the redesign of Business Week. As does Creative Review.
Today’s Daily Telegraph features a wrap-around ad for HSBC printed on tracing paper, allowing the front page to appear (albeit murkily) behind the ad. Added perk (or not?) – the Queen appears to be in the ad.
Reimagining Vanity Fair
Following on from a conversation while D&AD judging about Vanity Fair being the dream project for an art director – an editorially great magazine in desperate need of some visual flair – here’s a development project by Ken Leung for the magazine. More on his site (via Jean).
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I’ve been a guest of those nice chaps at It’s Nice That this week, where I’ve featured MK Bruce/Lee, mono.kultur, Cut, The Brain and La Mas Bella. Read all five posts here.
New York, The New Yorker, Wired... must be the ASME National Magazine Awards 2010.
Mark Porter reviews his ex-colleague Richard Turley’s redesign for Business Week and can’t avoid the similarities to The Guardian.
Also in the US, TVGuide has been redesigned by Mr Newman.
Creative Review dips its toe in the world of Apps with a one-off for its Annual awards. It’s nice. Next up the iPad?
M-publishing sounds interesting (thanks Lesley).
Happy Birthday UK Wired
The UK edition of Wired is a year old this month, as this month’s gatefold cover featuring all the front covers shows. I don’t usually celebrate such anniversaries, but make an exception here as I was initially sceptical of the need for a local edition of the magazine. The US one is so strong and the subject matter so international, I couldn’t see what a UK edition could add.
But after a slow start – that Superman front cover being typically unambitious – the title has rallied recently and become a must-read featuring increasingly strong editorial design. So, happy birthday Wired.
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First UK review of the iPad from Ben Terrett.
Meanwhile, signs of consumer resistance to paying for iPad magazine apps, ‘Come on, guys, help us out, this is the future of magazines. This is how I want all of my magazines. But I will not pay $5 per issue’. More here.
NME finally replaces its age-old Barney Bubbles designed logo as it gets a complete redesign. Launches with set of ten covers this week, see them all here. Initial reaction: rather characterless, TOO clean.
Re-make Re-model provides a visual overview of Japanese magazines.
Colin Jacobsen reflects on image manipulation, with some interesting examples.
Archive site for long-forgotten French singing star Gigi Gaston. Features a series of lovingly crafted magazine covers and spreads (turns out she’s a fictional character created by ex-New York art director Josh Gosfield)
Remember a company called Quark? Seems they still exist.
Design Week redesigned
Designing for designers is often a thankless task. First, your audience always think they know better. This view then splits in one of two directions – the reader either believes the work in question is over-designed and fussy, or that the design is a missed opportunity and under-designed. These two extremes will also be offered about the same project by different people. You’re faced with a bunch of critics who believe their opinion valid, yet have probably never designed a magazine in their lives.
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SPD shares the latest redesign of Fortune magazine, and MediaWeek has some background to the project (thanks Bob).
Happy 4th birthday, Vague Paper. To mark the milestone, they’re selling the final 50 copies of their launch issue here.
Times 2, the daily features section, gets the chop.
Mr Magazine discusses the future of print.
Magazine of the week: Elle Collections
Elle Collections is the biannual fashion special from UK Elle, and the new issue published earlier this month has been given a complete overhaul by the Elle team. What a lovely job they’ve done.
The new Observer
It seems sometimes as if The Observer has been in a more or less permanent state of relaunch. Despite being around since 1791, it now regularly lurches from crisis to crisis, the latest being a rumoured plan to close the newspaper and relaunch it as the Sunday edition of (it’s current owners) The Guardian.
How far that plan got is unclear, but the rumours started a small but influential campaign to save the paper, and, as I highlighted last week, the result was another relaunch yesterday (the press campaign for the redesign made prominent use of quotes from those who campaigned to save the paper).
