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NYT’s front-page Instagram
Nick Laham “took what space I could get and worked with it” to capture of New York Yankees players on the team’s photo day. So yes. That was me in the locker room bathroom shooting portraits of the New York Yankees players with my iPhone. He processed the photos with Instagram, and one ended up … Continue reading
Sports Illustrated Cover
The cover of Sports Illustrated this week. The man in that photo is 78-year-old Bill Iffrig. He actually got up and finished the race. Sports Illustrated, April 17, 2013 Creative Director: Chris Hercik Photographer: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe SPD team spoke with CD Chris Hercik about SI’s powerful cover of Monday’s tragic bombings at the Boston … Continue reading
People Magazine – Special Editions
These unique issues are made with unique content including custom design, typography, photography and illustration. The mission of these special issues is different from that of the weekly mag and the design reflects this. The art director has to exercise a whole new set of design muscles to produce something truly custom which is also … Continue reading
The New Economics of Photojournalism: Online Photography Workshops
Swedish photographer JH Engström has been running photography workshops for the past 15 years, teaching groups of 10-15 photographers for five days in Paris, Berlin or New York. It’s intense, but he loves it, he says. “You get to know the students and their work, and they get to know you too. In most cases, we develop a … Continue reading
12/31/2012: Newsweek Shutting Down Print Edition
After 80 years in print, Tina Brown, Newsweek editor-in-chief has announced that the magazine’s last issue will be published December 31, 2012. Newsweek announcement: We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in … Continue reading
Arthur Hochstein: Daily Magazine Covers at the Political Conventions
Bloomberg Insider was a 32-page, large format daily magazine produced for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in late August and early September. An old school, print-only publication, it was distributed at the convention halls in Tampa and Charlotte, as well as in area hotels and kiosks, and in Washington, D.C. Hochstein’s assignment was to … Continue reading
Meet the Photographer: Platon
Photo by Platon Platon (Platon Antoniou) is a 21st century photographer who has taken portraits of many presidents and well known world figures. Platon was born in London in 1968, raised in the Greek Isles until his family returned to England in the 1970′s. He attended St. Martin’s School of Art and after receiving his … Continue reading
USA Today newspaper redesign
USA Today print edition is redesigned. New design was introduced on September 14th. And as newspapers explained: “USA TODAY’s new logo – a large circle in colors corresponding to the sections — will be an infographic that changes with the news, containing a photo or image that represents key stories of the day.” Good luck. … Continue reading
Layout – Lay it all out
Let’s make one thing clear. A readers does not make an impression on print or digital magazine, web or newspaper design by looking at the construction of the page, photography or any other element that are part of design. Readers will make a judgment based on overall impression – they are not designers or editors, … Continue reading
Reinventing great covers in the digital ages
Nowadays,the pressure to create the digital magazine that will pop out in a digital stand it seams to become a huge challenge for designers just like it was for designers back in the 60′s and 70′s when competition started to grow rapidly. Issue of Time magazine with the breast-feeding cover was the best selling issue … Continue reading
