Posts Tagged ‘ magazine design ’

New blood

From Tantrum magazine, March 2012.

Zoom

Figure/ground, alignment, and concept all rolled into this enjoyable page from Marie Claire magazine.

Esquire: Working

Gwen Stefani

This spread from Harper’s Bazaar features Gwen both photographically and typographically. I enjoy the way the shape of the word gwen mirrors the shape created in the photograph.

David Lynch in Max magazine

What is it about Italian magazines and smoking? That aside, I like this spread from Max.

Type layout echoes bikini pattern

Ingenious typographic layout inspired by the bikini worn by Kristen Bell.

Esquire, September 2012

Pink type

Pink stands in for the letter I in this striking Billboard cover.

Read like an Egyptian

These content pages, in the August issue of Esquire, are a series of images that summarize the topics that appears on various pages. These icons were possibly inspired by hieroglyphs, and certainly evoke the notion of reading through imagery. The one on page 106 (lower page) is Morgan Freeman; You probably recognize President Obama; the series of icons between 84 and 93 will be revealed on another day. [Click twice to zoom in close]

Charlotte Gainsbourg inspires


Amica, August 2012

The mane event

The lead spread from a feature on hair in Harper’s Bazaar, August 2012. I like the correspondence between the letter a and the photograph.