New at Pentagram
New Work: ‘My Wall Street Journal’
Wall Street had a new tabloid this week as My Wall Street Journal appeared—and quickly disappeared—from newsstands all over the country. Paula Scher consulted on the design of the new satire from Tony Hendra, the former editor of National Lampoon. Timed to tax day and the new recession, the single-issue parody of the News Corp-owned Journal has incurred the wrath of Rupert Murdoch (or at least his lookalike) and comes complete with a WSJ-style stippled illustration of a topless Ann Coulter (NSFW). Get your copy here.
Head Start
False Start, the new issue of 2wice designed by Abbott Miller, is noted in this week’s Village Voice. False Start presents a single performance by the choreographer Jonah Bokaer, arranged flipbook-like across 45 spreads. Check out an animated preview of the issue here.
New Work: ‘Dairy Today’
DJ Stout has redesigned the magazine Dairy Today that is launching this month. In addition to a bold new logotype, the magazine will feature a stylized “portrait” of a dairy cow on the cover of each issue in an effort to differentiate it from its competitors. This is the second dairy magazine and the sixth agricultural trade publication Pentagram’s Austin office has redesigned. Stout and his team previously reworked three magazines for the American Quarter Horse Association, Dairy Herd Management magazine and Drovers magazine (about the beef industry).
How does one art direct a cow? Video after the jump.
New Work: ‘Las Vegas Life’
DJ Stout and Julie Savasky have redesigned Las Vegas Life magazine. Launching this month, Las Vegas Life is a city magazine concerned with the issues of the entire city, the suburbs and the whole surrounding area. “Even though it is more of a traditional city magazine my feeling was that Las Vegas Life is about a very glamorous high-rolling city that is unlike any other place in the world,” says Stout. “I felt that it should be a city magazine on par with cities like Los Angeles or New York, but true to itself. Our objective was to keep the design simple and intelligent and the photography and illustration contemporary, up-scale, sexy and glamorous, regardless of the subject matter.”
Luke Hayman at Magazines Are Dead! Long Live the Magazine!
Luke Hayman will be speaking at the one day conference about magazine design Magazines are Dead! Long Live the Magazine! taking place in London on Friday 25 January. Sponsored by the St Bride Foundation, Hayman will be joined by Jeremy Leslie, editor of the blog magCulture, Wallpaper* editor-in-chief Tony Chambers and Simon Esterson of Blueprint and Eye, amongst others.
New Work: ‘The Advocate’
Luke Hayman and his team have redesigned The Advocate, the landmark gay and lesbian biweekly newsmagazine. The redesign coincides with the magazine’s 40th anniversary and the arrival of a new editor in chief, Anne Stockwell. It also reflects the broader changes in the LGBT community that the magazine serves.
New Work: Circular Fifteen
Domenic Lippa has designed issue fifteen of Circular, the magazine of the Typographic Circle, a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers which formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an active interest in type and typography.
Lippa has a long-standing relationship with the Typographic Circle, previously acting as its chairperson for two years. Circular Fifteen is the eighth issue of the magazine Lippa has designed in as many years.
‘2wice’ Featured in ‘The New York Times’
The latest issue of 2wice designed by Abbott Miller was featured in The New York Times on Saturday. Titled Green World: Merce Cunningham, the issue is devoted to the work of the famed choreographer as it captures, through the stunning photography of Katherine Wolkoff, Cunningham’s troupe as they perform in the gardens of the Italian Renaissance-inspired Vizcaya mansion in Miami.
General Excellence
Pentagram has worked with four of the five finalists in the General Excellence category (under 100,000 circulation) of this year’s National Magazine Awards presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Paula Scher designed the format for Metropolis; Abbott Miller designed the format for Print; Luke Hayman is the former design director of I.D.; and Michael Bierut and Armin Vit are recent consultants to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (Virginia Quarterly Review, please contact us immediately!)
Finally, congratulations to Luke Hayman on his nomination in the Design category for New York.
New Work: TIME Magazine
Cover of the redesigned TIME magazine.
Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein.
Luke Hayman Talks With Roger Black
Luke Hayman discusses his design direction for New York magazine and his move to Pentagram in an interview with Roger Black.
New Work: Architect Magazine
Premier issue featuring Ross Wimer of SOM
Abbott Miller and his team have designed the new magazine Architect, launching this month. The title focuses on architecture as discipline, process and professional community. As Ned Cramer, the editor in chief, describes it, the magazine “will celebrate the people—famous and otherwise—who get buildings built.“ The editorial design follows suit, with information appearing in an accessible format. Architect is published by Hanley Wood and incorporates Architecture magazine—a title that Abbott once redesigned back in 1997.
Several spreads from the first issue after the jump.
Update: Witold Rybczynski critiques the magazine on Slate.
New Work: 2wice
The Cunningham & Rauschenberg issue
The collaborative works of Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg are the focus of the new issue of 2wice, out now. 2wice staged a photo shoot with Merce Cunningham and his company, in costumes designed by Rauschenberg for 12 dances that were originally created between 1952 and 2000. The issue was designed by Abbott Miller and Jeremy Hoffman and features a new custom font, 2wice Egyptian, designed by Chester at Village. Photography by Joachim Ladefoged.
New Work: Matador
Volume I (the letter I) of Matador
Fernando Gutiérrez and his team have designed the new issue of Matador, the limited edition, once-a-year arts journal published by Fabrica. Each issue of Matador is given a sequential letter of the Spanish alphabet —A,B, C, Ch, E, etc.— and a central theme. Volume I focuses on Asia (Oriente) and features the work of artists from Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan, including Nobuyashi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Li Zhensheng, among others. Each issue also showcases a different typeface—here it’s Egyptian Bold Condensed.
New Work: Creativity Magazine
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Michael Bierut and Armin Vit have redesigned Creativity, the advertising and design magazine published by Ad Age. The redesign launches with the magazine’s 20th anniversary issue (March), in which Pentagram also appears on the Creativity 50, a list of “the most influential creative people of the last two decades.” Up next: the team redesigns AdCritic, the Creativity website.
More images after the jump.
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