Two weekly American news-related magazines relaunched in two days. Very different stories, however – and very different results.
First up, The New York Times Magazine.
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To celebrate the magazine’s fifth anniversary, the blog of the New York Times‘s T supplement has posted a roundup of their favourites from the now-traditional logo restylings. They’re as variable as the mag itself, but when they’re good, they’re cracking. I really hope the crop circle one was done for real. Bonus link: how a MacWorld cover comes together. Would love to have seen the process for some of these Ts.
The New York Times magazine – on a good week, one of my favourite newspaper supplements – today published a deliberate echo of Rolling Stone‘s American bicentennial issue The Family from 1976, that featured 76 ‘Portraits of Power’ shot by Richard Avedon. (Not entirely coincidentally, Avedon’s photos are currently on display in a gallery in Washington DC.)
Where Avedon mixed politicians with models and counter-cultural icons, The NYT has gone just for members of the new Washington arrivals, under the heading of ‘Obama’s People’. And the images are reproduced in carefully corrected colour rather than black and white exactitude.
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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