Journal tagged by Magazines

I was surprised during my recent trip to New York how hard the New York Times was promoting itself. There seemed to be ads for the newspaper everywhere – on the Subway, the tops of taxis, and on TV. The...

Design Week ran it’s annual publishing supplement last week. As ever it’s a good mix of material. Designer Mike Dempsey is disappointed by the state of UK newspaper design, but pleasantly surprised by the sophistication of newspaper websites; Penguin Books...

Planning for Colophon2009 is reaching the final phase. The ten exhibiting magazine have already been announced, and further event details will follow very soon. Meanwhile the new book, We Make Magazines, is in the final stage of design here at...

The latest subscriber-only cover of the UK edition of Esquire features children’s TV character Morph, re-created by Aardman (the newsstand version features Sean Penn). It’s developed from a fashion story inside the issue, in which Morph models the latest men’s...

The EDO DIY exhibition last Thursday went well I think. As one of the organisers I’ll let others prepare deeper critiques, but I was just glad we managed to make the experiment work. A good number of people turned up...

British editorial design legend David Hillman will be interviewed live in London this spring as part of this year’s D&AD President’s Lectures series. Patrick Baglee will talk to Hillman about a career that has included early Sunday Times Magazine, Nova,...