The Village Voice: An Art Directors’ History

[On August 31, 2018, The Village Voice announced it was suspending all editorial operations. Although its last print edition was published late last year, The Voice had continued publishing in an online format. A version of this story originally appeared on the Society of Publication Designers website to commemorate the final print issue of The […]

The Village Voice Covers of Tom Carlson

Voice Media Group design director Tom Carlson has been working overtime the past few months. In addition to his duties supervising the design of the Village Voice Media altweekly papers, he’s continued as art director of Riverfront Times in St. Louis, and has been art directing the covers of New York City’s The Village Voice. […]

Altweekly Shock Tactics

When Sarah Palin came to Boston in the spring of 2010, the city’s alternative newspaper Weekly Dig sponsored a reader contest to create the best cover image. The winner pictured two elephants, the symbol of Palin’s Republican Party, having sex. After the killing of Osama bin Laden last year, Seattle’s The Stranger printed a cover […]