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The secret life of magazine designers

November 22, 2010 in stack | 2 comments

Over on the Stack blog, I just posted the latest edition of the Designers Series created by the design team at Bloomberg Businessweek. It is, quite simply, magnificent. And scabrously funny.

Usually I don’t share the Designers Series prints, which are images created by designers exçlusively for Stack America subscribers. However, to celebrate the completion of Stack America’s first year, this time I’ve made an exception.

Download it, share it, print it out, enjoy. Just don’t show Graydon Carter.

Also: we just released a special seasonal offer, valid until the end of 2010. Buy a year’s subscription to Stack America, get $10 off a bonus six-month subscription. Go here to read more.

Fortoon

April 23, 2010 in Clever ideas, Magazine covers, USA | 1 comment

The rejected Chris Ware-created cover for Fortune‘s 500th issue is a remarkably detailed satire in miniature on the structure of the global economy. Wonder why they turned it down?

I’m not sure how it leaked out today, but I’m glad it did. You can see it in all its magnified glory here.

Notional lampoons

October 17, 2009 in Archives, Magazine covers | 1 comment

Since Robert Newman brought them to everyone’s attention, these National Lampoon covers have been doing the rounds. On the whole, they’re really not very funny (what happened in the 80s?), but just occasionally they hit the bullseye so perfectly with a photo-based cover that you find it hard to believe it was a fluke. (I’ll spare you the same-old “Buy this or the dog gets it” cover, but you know I’m including that one in this.)

This one in particular resonated with me. I have a collection of anniversary editions from magazines (rather than the typical first editions), and the cover lines of most of them may as well be the same.

Tomorrow’s news, today

November 13, 2008 in Clever ideas, USA | No comments

Hurray for desktop publishing. A special spoof edition of the New York Times was distributed free on the streets of the Big Apple yesterday, dated “July 4th 2009″, filled with “all the news we hope to print”. The Iraq War is over, national health care has been introduced and all petrol cars have been recalled.

And apparently, the activists behind the spoof paper printed 1.2 million of the things.

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