Publishing eats itself
George Lois’s cover designs for US Esquire from the early sixties are currently being exhibited at MoMA in New York, including the now iconic Ali cover, above.
If you can’t make that, try the Hospital in London, where the UK edition of the magazine has an exhibition contrasting Lois’s original covers with a set of newly commissioned tribute images. (Esquire have also printed up a very limited run of the latest issue featuring the images).
And the winners are…
Congratulations to magCulture favourites Carl*s Cars and Fantastic Man for their yellow pencil wins at last night’s D&AD awards ceremony. Both titles deserve this recognition.
Look 2
Issue two of New York spin-off Look has just been published, with this beautiful cover by Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, who seems to have shot most of the issue.
Pascal Dangin, superstar re-toucher
I guess it was bound to happen: move aside all you superstar models, superstar photographers, superstar stylists, and make way for the superstar re-toucher. Pascal Dangin, preferred re-toucher to Leibovitz, Meisel et al, is the subject of one of the New Yorker’s long profiles. A great piece, complete with a history of re-touching. Read it here.
Hong Kong report
Back in March I did a couple of workshops in Hong Kong, and I promised I’d write about them here. I’ve had these notes and images hanging around since then, without time to complete them, so thought I’d share them as they are rather than wait for the opportunity to finesse them.
Anthony Burrill & Wallpaper*
I love Anthony Burrill’s illustration and typography, so it’s a pleasure to find one of my favourite Burrill designs featured on the cover of next month’s Wallpaper*.‘Work hard and be nice to people’ is one of a series of four slogan covers introducing the magazines’s Work issue.
Man About Town – ‘a male Vogue’
Art director Anne Braybon talks about sixties men’s title Man About Town at the London College of Communication, this Thursday May 15.
Details from graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Fabien’s return
The first issue of Interview to be published under new owner/creative director Fabien Baron is out, featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal shot by Bryan Adams on the cover in a slightly weird Photo-shopped collage.
Make babies. Don’t be selfish all your life…
Hurrah! It’s sunny outside and Kasino A4 is back. The new Family issue features, if you were among the first 500 to reply, your own name inscribed on the front cover by illustrator Sanna Paananen. We are the Kasino A4 family!
I can’t recommend this magazine enough. As ever, it treads a careful balance between humour and seriousness, the throwaway and the important. This is a magazine made by people loving what they do, something that comes across on every page as they examine Family, using their dads in a fashion shoot, asking a group of wedding-goers to draw ‘happiness’ and opening up their family photo albums. Plus some typical style advice: ‘Make babies. Don’t be selfish all your life…’
Magtastic
Yeh! Magtastic is another blog about magazines, launched by my friend and fellow Colophon-er Andrew Losowsky. He’s talking in Milan later this month, too.