Bloomberg Businessweek dogs and tweaks
Bloomberg Businessweek has redesigned their ‘Etc’ section, the in-house team working with consultant Mark Leeds to add a new super-wide sans called Druk Wide. You can see it here in the headline, in among the dogs. The font is also used for the section header (after jump).
At Work With: Chris Dixon, Vanity Fair
Chris Dixon was part of the team behind the influential 2005 redesign of New York magazine. In late 2011 he joined Vanity Fair and has spent the last 18 months quietly reinventing the look of that magazine. He looks forward to his week ahead and shares a rare favourite magazine.
Back to the future with US Esquire
Great to see this month’s US Esquire recall its heyday, bravely leading with this bold typographic sell for an exclusive piece of journalism. Congratulations to all involved (thanks Terri).
Magazine of the Week: Shelf Journal #2
The launch issue of The Shelf Journal created lots of interest when I featured it here last summer, so it’s exciting to now feature the brand new second issue.
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Andy Cowles looks at the highs and lows of using a hashtag on your front cover.
Mario Garcia gets Flipboarding.
The PPA is 100 years old this year and will be celebrating by with a Front Cover of the Century vote. That’s a single cover from a hundred years of covers. Gulp.
Which types of magazine are publishing apps and for which platforms? According to Thea Selby, iPad business titles lead the way.
Julia have posted a portfolio of their work for Elephant magazine. Worth it for this New York spread alone.
IL reversible cover
The upcoming special Food/Fiction issue of IL magazine has this reversible typographic cover – note how the O and C of ‘Fiction’ sit in the O’s of ‘Food’. Design Francesco Franchi.
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Coming soon: Eye #84
A rather fine-looking Monotype special from Eye – check out the type specimens.
Posted: The Gourmand, B, Tissue, Nom de Strip
Time for a quick round-up of recent arrivals at magCulture, starting with food magazine The Gourmand. Like a number recent food titles (Fire & Knives and Put A Egg On It spring to mind, more here) The Gourmand uses food as a starting point to enjoy the strange ways of we humans. There’s photography from south India, extreme close-up eating images by Gustav Almestal, some David Shrigley art accompanied by an interview over a meal at his favourite restaurant.
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Steven Heller looks back to a time when ‘magazines had balls’.
The Little Magazine Coalition is adding members.
Underscore’s UCafé magazine library returns to Singapore, open August 1–12.
Rob Lowe has a tumblr dedicated to his hand-lettering for Fire & Knives.
Some spectacular eighties graphics from The Picture Newspaper (via Idea Books).
Story is a new magazine about Kentucky, US, life. Like the logo.
Coming up: another magazine-in-a-day project, this time in Cardiff, October 6.
The MPA have published their annual Magazine Media Factbook – 104 pages of stats about the US magazine market (thanks David).
Out now: Eye 83
The latest edition of Eye is out, with a striking close up of one of Massimo Vignelli’s Knoll posters on the front cover.
