: 2013 Alberta Magazines Conference, Calgary, Alberta

He’s been art director at some of the industry’s most successful and innovative magazines: Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, Details, New York, Inside, Vibe and Entertainment Weekly. His design method has been described as a “mind-meld with the editorial vision” (Mediabistro.com, 2005). Before becoming an art director he worked as a political organizer, printer, typesetter, […]

Responding to Changing Technology: A Conversation with Robert Newman

[Originally published January 29, 2013] For the cover of Fortune’s 75th anniversary issue in 2005, design director Robert Newman and his team shot the Time-Life building in New York with selected office lights on to form the number 75. Of his many covers – those with such mastheads as Reader’s Digest and Real Simple – […]

Robert Newman tapped for Alberta conference keynote

[Originally published January 17, 2013] He’s been art director at some of the industry’s most successful and innovative magazines: Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, Details, New York, Inside, Vibe and Entertainment Weekly. His design method has been described as a “mind-meld with the editorial vision” (Mediabistro.com, 2005). Before becoming an art director he worked as […]