Illustrator/graphic novelist/cartoonist/etc. Art Spiegelman has a retrospective show opening at The Jewish Museum in NYC on November 8, 2013. Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective, will feature images from Maus, RAW, underground comics, and of course, some of his memorable covers for The New Yorker. We’ve put together our 10 favorite Spiegelman New Yorker covers from […]
Portland Mercury, November 4, 2013. Art director: Justin Scrappers. See a video of the making of this cover here. Justin Scrappers put his all into this cover; he’s the naked guy with the U on his back!
Walter Allner was the deputy art director under Leo Lionni at Fortune magazine in the 1950s. He went on to become the art director at the magazine from 1962-74, illustrating and designing many memorable covers. In his spare time he designed covers for Modern Packaging magazine. Thanks to Monoscope, we’ve got a nifty gallery of […]
“What Is a Magazine?” asks Jeremy Leslie on the first page of this wonderful new book. There are a multiplicity of answers (of course), and you’ll find many of them in this visual feast, filled with graphic delights and surprises. It’s the book equivalent of a giant newsstand, and readers are treated to an endless display of […]
This is an edited version of a talk presented to the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association annual conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on March 15, 2013. (Read a brief recap of this presentation on the AMPA website.) I’m sure you realize that this is a time of great change and challenge in the magazine business—no doubt the […]
My Favo(u)rite Magazine is the benefit project for Robert Newman, organized by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky. To promote the magazine, a series of Bob’s supporters have been taking snapshots of themselves holding My Favo(u)rite Magazine, in locations ranging from London to Toronto to Tokyo to Amsterdam. This is the second in a series of […]
My Favo(u)rite Magazine is the benefit project for art director Robert Newman, organized by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky. Following Bob’s serious accident in March, Jeremy and Andrew reached out to a stellar cast of magazine makers, including Florian Bachleda, Luke Hayman, Josh Klenert, Arem Duplessis, Rudy VanderLans, Richard Turley, Tom Brown, Tim Leong, Matt Willey, Mario Garcia, Andy […]
Thanks to everyone who has been helping to promote the My Favo(u)rite Magazine benefit project. If you haven’t seen this amazing collection of magazine covers, created by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky, look at this small excerpt via the Society of Publication Designers. Here is a small list of folks and websites who have given the project some […]
Longtime Village Voice art director George Delmerico passed away in early August in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 67. Delmerico was a talented and eclectic art director who designed LP covers (most notably Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly), posters, books, alternative newspapers, and much more, but it was his work as art director of […]
My Favo(u)rite Magazine is a project created by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky to benefit me and my family in the wake of the serious accident I suffered earlier this year. It’s a wonderful collection of commentary from 88 publication designers, editors, and other visual stars, listing (and showing) their favorite magazine. This great gathering […]
