August 2007 Archives
(image from Good magazine)
If you're a magazine junkie like moi, the last thing you want to see in your mailbox are renewal requests. I swear, they arrive earlier and earlier these days. If I’m only three months into a subscription, give me a chance to truly sample your goods before you pester me with snail mail spam.
My current roster of magazine subs, sadly, is out of control. I know for certain that I have a problem because I’ve run out of places to pile my magazines. Besides organizational woes, I haven't the time to read them all, let alone skim to scam design inspiration.
So when my third renewal request arrived this week from Good, it was with a heavy heart that I tossed the final notice into the recycle bin. I love their mission, like most of each issue's stories, find the pages' design to be fab, but I haven’t connected 100% to the content. It’s good, but not good enough to pony up again this year. Maybe next year?
Today, though, I feel a little bit better about this decision after making a wonderful discovery via Quipsologies. My favorite part of each issue—their brilliant infographics by OfficeOfCC—are archived on the Good web site.
Score!
(image from DesigningMagazines.com)
If I had more time and talent, I would have loved to have started a blog just like Designing Magazines—the latest brilliant work by Jandos Rothstein, one of the magazine industry’s biggest (and most selfless) talents whom you might know from his engaging essays at AIGA.org or popular panel cover critiques (“Face Up”) for Folio.
Rothstein, an art director and educator, eloquently and humorously journals his insights regarding magazine design trends as a thoughtful compliment to the upcoming release of his highly anticipated (by me, at least!) tome by the same name. If every magazine art director made his site part of their regular reading, the aesthetics of pubs across the globe would be the better for it.
Reblogged because it's still so good:
When you care enough to send the very best, but Hallmark just won't do the trick... consider mailing a creation by talented collage artist Francesca Berrini. (link via J-Walk Blog)
