Do magazines (the printed kind) have a future as we increasingly migrate to the web? This and many other questions were raised at last week’s SPD panel discussion, Paper to Pixels. Five distinguished art directors offered their perspectives on moving from print to web, giving me so much to think about that I’m not sure where to start. Read more »
The other day on my way home, I entered the Columbus Circle 59th Street station and immediately felt disconcerted. It wasn’t the construction – the station’s been a mess for some time now – it was the temporary signage. Read more »
I attended a lecture earlier this week, sponsored by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) – wow, those magazine people can party! Just kidding. But there was a lot of schmoozing. Anyway, Arem Duplessis, art director of the New York Times Sunday Magazine gave a good talk and showed tons of work, going back to his early days at SPIN magazine, on through some of the most recent covers at the Sunday mag. I was running kinda late, Read more »
High speed train, great image. High speed internet… what exactly does that look like? Bits of data passing unseen through cables or via satellite is a challenge to represent visually. Just what does data in the act of transferring look like? How about an email transmitting around the world? What about “high bandwidth fiber optic infrastructure” or “broadband connectivity”? Explaining our increasingly tech-saturated world visually is a challenge because we never actually see the things that happening. Read more »
