A fun and smart surprise for magazine “cover junkies” has arrived in my mailbox from across the seas: Jaap Biemans’ one-off magazine celebrating the most notable magazine cover designs of 2011. Be warned: despite the cleverly edited title, it IS “an addiction to creative magazine covers that you wanna lick.” Lush, inviting, and expertly crafted, [...]
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Warning to coverjunkies:
Watch out for paper cuts!
Posted by Ron Reason on January 25, 2012
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2012/01/25/warning-to-coverjunkies-watch-out-for-paper-cuts/
Updated, expanded:
Magazine design, redesign resources
Seeking inspiration for magazine design and editing? Check out this updated and expanded collection of magazine covers, prototypes, and inside pages (not sexy, but oh so important), with links to associated case studies and blog posts. And check out more than 2 dozen blog entries related to magazine and tabloid design and editing.
Posted by Ron Reason on November 18, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/11/18/updated-magazine-design-resources/
Magazine redesign and cover design: Some basics
Whenever I work on magazine redesigns, or newspaper redesigns (or sections) that might lend themselves to exploring a more magazine-like direction, I wallow in the joys and challenges of designing covers. Here are four areas where I tend to concentrate my work, that may provide lessons for editors and designers struggling to create magazine covers [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on October 16, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/10/16/magazine-redesign-and-cover-design-some-basics/
Chicago Reader redesign:
A new music section to flip for
[Prototypes for covers of B Side: Chicago's Music Magazine, the new music section of the Reader. Click to enlarge] Welcome to “READER Week,” a series of posts looking at the April 28, 2011 relaunch of the Chicago READER, the alternative newsweekly celebrating its 40th year. To kick things off, we look at what may be the [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on April 25, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/04/25/chicago-reader-redesign-a-music-section-to-flip-for/
From a campus mag, a word-visual marriage to learn from
Sharp, focused, relevant words, married up with fun, surprising, captivating imagery – what more could you ask for from a magazine? Over the years it has seemed like pulling teeth to get that out of some of my professional clients, but the student staff of INSIDE magazine at IU-Bloomington (some of whom I have mentored [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on February 24, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/02/24/from-a-campus-mag-a-word-visual-marriage-to-learn-from/
Good alt weeklies: ‘The indescribable savoriness of salty, sweet, sour, bitter’
A good alt-weekly. It’s like the journalistic equivalent of umami – the indescribable savoriness that goes with salty, sweet, sour, bitter. It’s just a texture more than anything else and it celebrates being intangible.
Posted by Ron Reason on February 7, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/02/07/what-makes-a-good-alt-weekly/
Chicago Reader: moving forward (with a quick look back)
Today’s news of a new editor-in-chief at the Chicago Reader is a good push forward for a redesign that has been in the works there (in fits and starts) for a few months. We aim for a spring launch date for the paper soon to be helmed by Mara Shalhoup, currently with Creative Loafing in [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on February 7, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/02/07/chicago-reader-moving-forward-with-a-quick-look-back/
Magazine redesign: Anatomy of a news page makeover
Posted by Ron Reason on January 19, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/01/19/magazine-redesign-anatomy-of-a-news-page-makeover/
Magazine redesign: Anatomy of a travel page makeover
Travel page of Hispanic Business, before and after redesign. Click twice to enlarge [2nd of 2 parts: See related entry on magazine news page design]
Posted by Ron Reason on January 19, 2011
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/01/19/magazine-redesign-anatomy-of-a-travel-page-makeover/
Ad Age goes edgy with ‘Digital Issue’ cover lettering
This week’s cover of Advertising Age (a past client that I watch regularly) provided a bit of a typographic shocker: a chaotic digital font (or is it a font?) overlaid on a cast photo from MTV’s “Skins.” The headline: THE DIGITAL ISSUE (an annual affair for Ad Age). The subhead: “Your consumer’s brain on digital: [...]
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/03/02/ad-age-goes-edgy-with-digital-issue-cover-lettering/