Windy City publisher J.C. Gabel this month revived “The Chicagoan” magazine, which originally was launched in 1926 and lasted 9 years. Their covers were illustrative, alluring, and dynamic – I’ve posted a few of my favorites from that period over at my Facebook page. Make sure to “LIKE” the page and you’ll be alerted to informative, [...]
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An illustrated trip through time
with The Chicagoan magazine covers
Posted by Ron Reason on March 2, 2012
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2012/03/02/a-trip-through-time-with-the-chicagoan-magazine-covers/
Warning to coverjunkies:
Watch out for paper cuts!
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, [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on January 25, 2012
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2012/01/25/warning-to-coverjunkies-watch-out-for-paper-cuts/
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/
News design: The good,
the bad, and the gay
By coincidence, I came across two very different newspaper designs this week depicting a sensitive topic: acceptance of or hatred for gays. The contrast in these examples, from other sides of the world, is striking, and shows us the power that print publishing and design can have, for good or otherwise. First, locally in Chicago, [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on October 20, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/10/20/news-design-the-good-and-the-evil/
At Burning Man, two alt weeklies stir up some dust
I’ve been in alt-weekly mode with several cool clients this year, and some work with the AAN, so I was intrigued to find not one but two alternative weekly newspapers circulating at Burning Man, the annual desert festival of art-culture-camping-music-whatever in the remote desert of Nevada. Well, no wifi or cell phone service for the [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on September 12, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/09/12/at-burning-man-two-alt-weeklies-circulate/
An alt-weekly wish list: Editing, design, spirit
[Newer Post: 7 Things to Love About The Stranger: An Illustrated Guide.] More thoughts from a weekend immersion in the world of alternative weekly newspapers. Fun crowd with lots of talent, energy, and passion, despite the challenges of the current economic climate. Here’s a little fantasizing about where I’d take them in a perfect world [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on July 17, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/07/17/an-alt-weekly-wish-list/
Table of Contents pages: WHY?
DISPATCHES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLIES One bonus of attending a journalism convention is you get to see a ton of samples of fresh papers in one fell swoop. No reader ever sees newspapers this way, but it gives me a chance to think in fresh ways about why and how we do what [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on July 16, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/07/16/table-of-contents-pages-why/
Creative Loafing relaunch, Issue 2 highlights
. [ATLANTA] The second issue of a relaunch always brings tweaks and adjustments, and a creative energy that often the heat of launch week might not allow. Such is the case with the new look for alt weekly Creative Loafing. Here are a couple of section openers that really caught my eye. . . They [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on June 23, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/06/23/creative-loafing-relaunch-issue-2-highlights/
A new START for Atlanta’s alt weekly
CREATIVE LOAFING REINVENTS, FROM ATTITUDE TO AD INNOVATIONS [June 10, 2010] “Would you describe your paper as more of a lecture, or a conversation?” That was the question I asked Editor Mara Shalhoup, after I was first invited to consult on the redesign of Atlanta’s Creative Loafing – one of the nation’s better known and [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on June 9, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/06/09/new-start-for-atlantas-alt-weekly/
Osama Day 2 front page: Dissecting
St. Pete’s mastery of editing, design
Today’s second-day front by the St. Pete Times is a standout. Here are three reasons why. I may be an average consumer of news about the Osama capture/killing – viewed the press conference, and listen to NPR in the morning, spend 20 minutes or so surfing stories on the web, follow Facebook/Twitter feeds and review [...]
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2011/05/03/osama-day-2-front-page-st-petes-mastery-of-editing-design/