
Overmatter
Yesterday The Guardian was inducted into the Design Week Hall of Fame. ‘Not only has it gone through a bold and ground-breaking redesign inrecent years, it has managed more than any other national title to apply the same design values to its website’ – Lynda Relph-Knight, DW editor.
Meanwhile, Design Week redesigns and launches a new blog today.
Ex-editor posts an archive of the first 71 front covers of US satirical magazine Spy, designed by Alexander Isley. Correction: Designers also included Stephen Doyle, MArk Michealson and DW Honeycutt.
London free newspaper Metro launches a competition in collaboration with D&AD – design a four-page ‘wrap’ to motivate the city’s commuters.
Folio discovers magaziney-ness, or ‘the new squeezable ketchup bottle’ as Esquire put it (thanks Andrew).
David Hepworth makes a good point about how free review copies of CDs helped music reviewers. But that time ended a while ago didn’t it?