With Nicki Minaj screaming at you like that, how could you stop from picking up a copy of BlackBook? For that reason, BlackBook gets my vote for best magazine cover of 2011. It invited a staring contest between me and Ms. Minaj, more so than any other magazine cover last year, so that wins it [...]
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The Best Magazine Covers of 2011
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Articles, For EditorsTags: Beyonce, BlackBook, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, Dazed & Confused, Donald Trump, Jay-Z, Jayzee, Lindsay Lohan, Marilyn Monroe, MTV, Natalie Portman, New Yorker, Nicki Minaj, Osama Bin Laden, Playboy, Steve Jobs, The Mag Guy, The New Yorker, tsunami
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National Geographic and other Ellies winners
Posted: May 10, 2011 in Articles, For EditorsTags: AdAge, American Society of Magazine Editors, Backpacker, Ellies, ESPN The Magazine, Magazine, National Geographic, National Magazine Award, New York, New Yorker, photography, The New Yorker, W
National Geographic won big last night at the Ellies, the National Magazine Awards presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. This is an event I’ve never attended, but it sounds like a lot of fun, especially based on all the hashtag Ellies tweeting I saw going on late into the evening! One magazine that [...]
The Best Magazine Covers of 2010
Posted: May 1, 2011 in Articles, For EditorsTags: AdWeek, Bloomberg Businessweek, Elle (magazine), Elle Collections, Granta, Harpers Bazaar, iPad, Luke Hayman, Magazine covers, Martha Stewart Living, Pentagram, Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, Zeit Magazin
Magazine covers are a common topic on The Sidebar Review. Luke Hayman of design firm Pentagram told AdWeek what he thought the best covers of last year were at this link. He chose the following: Bloomberg Businessweek Spin Rolling Stone Elle Collections Time Zeit Granta Martha Stewart Living Harper’s Bazaar I thought the Spin cover [...]
Whoopsie! Magazine Mistakes Can Be Amusing
Posted: April 24, 2011 in Articles, For EditorsTags: BASS Times, errors, Food Network Magazine, mistakes, Rachael Ray, Tails, typos
Food Network Magazine recently ran a cover whoopsie of the magazine Tails. Everybody has a mistake every once in a while, but it’s really unfortunate when the lack of a comma on a cover makes it sound like a celebrity cooks her own family and pet. Read the whole article here. I can’t judge too [...]
Cover Design: What Makes a Winning Magazine Cover
Posted: March 8, 2011 in Articles, For Editors, magazines, publishing, RedesignsTags: Design, Folio, GOOD, Inc., Magazine, Magazine covers, Zach Frechette
What makes a cover tick? Its artistic merit? Stop-you-in-your-tracks cover blurbs? Incredible colors? Clever photography? None of the above. What makes a cover tick is its readers’ desire to pick up the issue, open the magazine and plunk down cold, hard cash. Sucks, huh? We editors and designers think we have it all figured out. [...]
How To Fix Last-Minute Publishing Uglies
Posted: September 14, 2010 in Articles, For EditorsTags: Design, ESPN The Magazine, Men's Health, Time
Today was a rough day in the office. Not rough compared to high-pressure environments with screaming bosses and slamming doors, but rough in the sense that we were almost there — and then we just weren’t. We were supposed to send all our files to the printer today. We were pretty close to sending most [...]
4 Things Every Editor’s Note Should Have
Posted: September 3, 2010 in Articles, For EditorsTags: Andy Corty, Editing, Editors, Florida Trend, Magazine, Mark Howard, Publishing
In my very short period of time officially reviewing magazines for The Sidebar Review, I’ve noticed how strongly I felt about something and didn’t even realize it. I run across really great editor’s notes in magazines — and then I run across the ones that lack the personality, insight and appeal that editor’s notes should [...]
