This is Jeremy Leslies blog that explores magazines.
I am going to use this space to post images from his blog that I find inspiring in how it approaches content,design and typography that stands out.
http://www.colorsmagazine.com/
This is the cover art for colours magazine, Most of their cover art uses very powerful imagery to draw the viewer right in.
Many of the covers compositions draw you directly into the image first due to it being such a striking and powerful image. The way that it is composed will then draw you through that image to the title of the magazine.
Taken From Mag Culture:
"Colors magazine has a long and glorious 22 year history, and the current editor-in-chief Patrick Waterhouse maintains the original vision that ‘diversity is good’; globalisation=diversity=good. Initially, the magazine took on large topics like religion, wealth, touch and multiculturalism. Twenty years after it’s 1991 launch (by photographer Oliviero Toscani and art director Tibor Kalman), Patrick took the magazine in a new editorial direction, in concept and design ‘creating Colors The Survival Guide and a series with an interlinking narrative structure’. The survival guide encompassed the interconnectedness and complexity of the world today, tackling issues of transport and peak oil, apocalypse and human waste. After these first four issues, the structure shifted and became more causal, covering marketing, the network of trade and art. One feature in the process of interrogating art including going to the Louvre ‘to capture the phenomena of people going not to see the work, but to say they have seen it.’
Colors places great importance on the communication of imagery and now uses comics, and detailed infographics (and animated shorts) alongside photography. The equation for Colors has evolved under Waterhouse – Visualise. Objectify. Thingness. Deconstruct. Show how things work. Process. Celebrating human ingenuity. Build around it – but it appears to be working. Discovery, open-mindedness and keen observation are paramount to Waterhouse, who’s passion and clear vision for the publication’s future is undeniably concerned with humankind, ethical debates and other complexities of life. "
http://magculture.com/blog/?p=19053#more-19053
Blog Post which explores different routes that some big magazines are taking in terms of redesign.
The New Yorker gets a revamp:
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http://magculture.com/blog/?p=19452#more-19452
In this blog feature, Mark Neill is talking about his redesign of NME magazine.
Neil says "It was very important for me to give it this voice, a visual language something that theNME lost."
In essence this is the same thing that I am trying to achieve with a sport magazine.
The interview is good reference into how Neil approached the re-design.
http://magculture.com/blog/?p=19053#more-19053
Blog Post which explores different routes that some big magazines are taking in terms of redesign.
The New Yorker gets a revamp:
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http://magculture.com/blog/?p=19452#more-19452
In this blog feature, Mark Neill is talking about his redesign of NME magazine.
Neil says "It was very important for me to give it this voice, a visual language something that theNME lost."
In essence this is the same thing that I am trying to achieve with a sport magazine.
The interview is good reference into how Neil approached the re-design.
