Editorial design
January 27th, 2009
I mentioned yesterday that the Guardian’s Weekend magazine is getting a new design from next Saturday. Weekend’s art director Maggie Murphy kindly asked me to do the cover this morning, so here’s a preview
January 27th, 2009
To my surprise, I’ve been asked to write a short column every couple of weeks for an Italian magazine called Internazionale (I write in English, they translate). It’s a culturally aware audience with an interest in design, but not much specialist knowledge. So the columns may be a little basic for readers of this blog, but hopefully the length (a haiku-like 200 words) will prevent anyone being bored. Here’s the first one… Read the rest of this entry »
January 26th, 2009
The Times of London made some major changes this weekend: a redesigned magazine, new newsprint sections, and a new A5 listings mag. Oh, and this week an Obama photo special in which they liked one picture so much they used it twice! The only thing which didnt change much was the main paper. Read the rest of this entry »
January 15th, 2009
After the recent frenzy of interest in Barney Bubbles, in which I was very willingly caught up, I was thrilled to see a post on Mike Dempsey’s blog devoted to another design hero who hasn’t had the mainstream attention he deserved — Raymond Hawkey. Read the rest of this entry »
January 5th, 2009
Here’s another sign of the state of the newspaper business. Incidentally, I love the way that Gawker tags all its print publishing stories with “dead trees”