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Some recent TAS work...

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: Some recent work, featuring some particularly awesome photography from Adam Voorhes. … more →

Tags: advertising, color choice, contents pages, Cool, DEADLINES, Illustration, Magazines, Production, production in progress

Read this magazine or this clown will die

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: There’s really not much I can add. … more →

Tags: Cool, Covers, Design, Magazines, you can never know enough stuff

Visual Aid books arrived from Amazon!

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: I ordered two Visual Aid books from Black Dog publishing. They’re chock full of fantastic info … more →

Tags: Books, color choice, Cool, Design, Future, Illustration, Influence, Infographics, Magazines

Wish List jersey giveaway

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: I forgot to mention in the GivingCity 4 post that we’re giving away a Wish List Jersey, the pr … more →

Tags: advertising, Cool, Design, digital magazines, Influence, Magazines, alyssa magrum, Austin, Competition

Texas State employee charitable contributions graphic

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: In the latest issue of GivingCity we ran a story about the thousands of state employees who donate m … more →

Tags: color choice, Cool, Design, digital magazines, Illustration, Infographics, Magazines, Poster Design, Production

GOOD magazine issue 17 cover in progress!

magazinedesign wrote 1 month ago: I talked about the new issue of GOOD here, in particular their awesome cover and the models on the c … more →

Tags: color choice, Cool, Covers, Design, Illustration, Magazines, Production, production in progress

Iron Man Goes Retro-Cool With New Look (via 109.com)

magazinedesign wrote 2 months ago: Yep, so this is a comic book and not a magazine. These covers look great, and I can’t wait to … more →

Tags: Books, color choice, Future, Illustration, Influence, Magazines, Photography, typography

GOOD magazine issue 17

magazinedesign wrote 2 months ago: I’d stop buying GOOD magazine a while back – partly out of an effort to spend less money … more →

Tags: advertising, color choice, contents pages, Cool, Covers, Design, Illustration, Influence, Infographics

Where Five Magazines Are Finding Revenue - via AdAge.com

magazinedesign wrote 3 months ago: This is a short, interesting read. Worth checking out – here. … more →

Tags: advertising, Getting paid on time, Magazines, Media kits

Some recent TAS work...

magazinedesign wrote 3 months ago: So we did a huge Editors’ Choice section in TAS 196… there are 80ish pages of categorize … more →

Tags: advertising, color choice, contents pages, Cool, Covers, Design, Infographics, Magazines, Photography

Nylon magazine is nice to look at. In a good/lazy way.4 comments

magazinedesign wrote 5 months ago: It’s been a while since I had a chance to post anything. Excuses, excuses, I hate when I hear … more →

Tags: color choice, Cool, Covers, Design, Future, Illustration, Influence, Magazines, Photography

Updated: New TAS cover in progress1 comment

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: This is the final one, minus high-res and date info. Working on a couple of different versions of th … more →

Tags: color choice, Covers, DEADLINES, Design, Magazines, Production, production in progress, typography

Updated: Working on some self-promo stuff...9 comments

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: Taking a break from full-time job for a sec, I’ve been working on this idea for a small, self … more →

Tags: advertising, Books, Clients, color choice, Cool, Design, digital magazines, Illustration, Influence

"Newspapers by computer" - 1981

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: … more →

Tags: Cool, digital magazines, Future

New MLK day graphic for United Way Capital Area1 comment

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: I put together a small graphic for United Way Capital Area, showing the locations of some of the ben … more →

Tags: Design, Illustration, Infographics

XXL magazine needs to have babies so that one day all magazines are this good

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: I cannot put into how words how much I love this magazine. From my perspective, it is almost perfect … more →

Tags: advertising, color choice, contents pages, Cool, Covers, Design, Magazines, men's magazines, Photography

Maxim January 2009, 'Young Hot Hollywood Special Issue'1 comment

magazinedesign wrote 10 months ago: I picked Maxim up this evening in Walmart – what better way to spend a Saturday evening? This … more →

Tags: advertising, bad magazine design, Boring, color choice, contents pages, Cool, Covers, Design, Illustration

Vanity Fair no. 582 is awesome and not awesome

magazinedesign wrote 11 months ago: I bought the new issue of Vanity Fair with Cate Blanchett on the cover. Love the cover photography a … more →

Tags: bad magazine design, contents pages, Cool, Covers, Design, Influence, Magazines, Photography, typography

Vibe 'Best of...' lists

magazinedesign wrote 11 months ago: Vibe’s Tabloid Issue has a pretty neat looking list called ‘The 80 Best Songs of ‘ … more →

Tags: Infographics, Magazines, Illustration, Photography, Cool, typography


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