Journal tagged by Cover story

As it’s announced that Creative director Gail Bichler and team are ADC’s Design Team of the Year, we take a quick look behind the scenes of the making of this week’s front cover of the New York Times Magazine, their annual ‘New York Issue’ edition. 

The latest New York cover features this powerful image—by Deborah Roberts—introducing a special package inside the issue marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin. We talk to the magazine’s photo director Jody Quon about the making of the cover.

‘This is about the survival of vast swathes of the planet—half-baked commitments won’t cut it’. It’s Freezing in LA! editor Martha Dillon tells us about their latest issue and shares thoughts on COP26 and what we can do in response to the climate crisis.

Bimonthly US mag The Baffler presents a critical, liberal view of politics and culture, alongside short stories, poetry and art. It’s covers provide a blank canvas for an illustrator to highlight a feature in the issue; we spoke to design studio No Idea about this recent cover about counterpublics, drawn by Kurt Woerpel.

All 5,000 copies of the latest issue of Slanted magazine feature a unique front cover image. The pictures, based on an existing body of work by artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth, are the result of an experiment with machine learning, highlighting the theme of the issue, AI. We hear from Editor-in-chief Lars Harmsen about the process.

For its 500th issue, French newspaper supplement M Le magazine du Monde published a special issue last month, collecting together all 500 of its front covers to date. The cover of the special issue was plain white; you had to look inside for the key to that.