Journal tagged by Magazines

Fancy yourself as the new design director at New York magazine? Get a head start by entering their open competition to design contributions for their High Priority page. (Link: DO)

These covers from the early eighties are still some of my favourite front cover designs ever. Designed by David King, they are strong individually and even stronger as a set. Enjoy!

I already posted the results of the eighth MDAs but didn't have time to comment on the results. So here goes. The big winners this year were Grazia (again) and the New Statesman. Grazia won the first-ever Icon of the...

Designer Michael Bojkowski, who already runs the fantastic NMCA site, has started a blog about magazines. Boicozine already has some good stories ready for you to enjoy, particularly about magazines from his home country Australia. He's recently posted his views...

Following on from my recent post about Spin's tabloid-sized publication Spin, here's a similar project from America. Below The Fold is published by Winterhouse, the company run by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, two of the voices behind Design Observer....

Earlier this year D&AD invited me to programme and chair a panel discussion about magazines in New York as part of their campaign to globalise their annual Awards. The subject was the difference between US and UK magazine design. I...