March 21, 2024
I dunno
It's obvious now that great work doesn't require sharing the same physical space with your team
January 23, 2024
One company that can do no design-wrong (imho) is Teenage Engineering
January 17, 2024
Be prepared to spend hours doing nothing but looking at this
January 11, 2023
January 10, 2024
"Well, THAT'S just not realistic. How many pictures are they taking?! What is this nonsense?!?"
January 9, 2024
An ALL AGES magazine, highlighting work by artists ages 15 and under
January 5, 2024
Yes, that's a pack of toilet paper propping up a fake floor.
December 28, 2023
Podcasts are the new punk rock, and listening to them while you work is pretty much universally acceptable since Covid-19.
... a renewed focus on subscription based readers ...
November 28, 2023
It's nice to see print alive and kicking in the future.
November 27, 2023
Published from 1933 to 1939, an Italian style incubator for typography and visual design.
November 15, 2023
Check out this vintage advertisement archive.
November 15, 2023
The brief was simple - make a comedy tour poster riffing on the original Cannonball Run movie poster.
October 26, 2023
A super-quick, and fun little project.
October 24, 2023
Haha, see what I did there. Gettting to produce and shoot in weird places is always fun.
October 19, 2023
Sometimes - especially in magazine design and production - you get to work with some kick-ass photography that sees the light of day for a couple of weeks, then disappears forever.
October 18, 2023
... all subsequent updates and changes we make are small and fairly straightforward, making updating and running the ad much less expensive ....
October 18, 2023
Comedy is the new punk rock.
October 17, 2023
“The title creative director or art director is something you do, not something you are,” she says. “How you make work and what you make is most important. You need to have wide interests in the world, enjoy working with, and be interested in people, and carve out time to actually do something creative. Not just organize people and emails.”
Take a look at these magazines created as background props for the orignal 1982 movie Bladerunner.
Thursday, October 5
9 times out of 10 - the first draft will look like complete garbage.
October 4, 2023
"The main issue with generative AI art tools is they’re built on the backs of uncredited, unpaid artists whose art is used without consent. Every image you generate only exists because of the artists it’s copying from, even if those works aren’t copyrighted. Some AI evangelists like to claim these tools work “just like the human brain” and that “human artists are inspired by or reference other artists the same way,” but this is untrue for multiple reasons."
September 30, 2023
Contrary to popular belief, magazine covers are not created by pressing the "Design a Cover" button.
September 28, 2023
Looking for a rad photography studio near downtown Austin?
September 27, 2023
Cool Infographics is an amazing resource for infographic inspiration.
September 19, 2023
Harry Pearson would commission some insane (by today's often boring newsstand standards) artwork for covers.
September 14, 2023
Samir Husni, known for his long-running blog Mr Magazine, publishes updates on new magazines launches every quarter.
September 14, 2023
Immersive infographic ... and prosper.
September 10, 2023
Not being one to back down when someone is so clearly wrong, we were forced to draw the plot points as a diagram for our colleague.
Septermber 8, 2023
Our role was to assist in producing the images he needed to make, and eat the prop pizza afterwards.
September 5, 2023
"AI gives you the opportunity to create something that you couldn’t have created yourself before. Now anybody with the right mindset, the knowledge, and maybe also the aesthetic, can actually make a fashion magazine, and a little bit of money."
August 31, 2023
We frequently photograph doctors in their work environments—private practices, offices, on the grounds of medical schools, and even sometimes in their own homes. However, some of the most striking photography has been shot in our own studio in Austin, Texas.
August 30, 2023
Many people involved in publication production—whether designer or writer—don’t have a great understanding of the importance of kerning. They might not even know what it is. This short online letter spacing game can help you learn what it is, how important it is, and how right or wrong you may have been about it.
August 29, 2023
Sometimes it can be tough to know where to look for magazine design and page layout inspiration. One great place to find amazing portfolio examples is The Society of Publication Designers Nice Spread section. Here you’ll find regularly updated examples of magazine and newspaper spreads from around the world.
Cult of Mac recently published this handy guide to the best monitors for your Mac in 2023.
August 22, 2023
Torquil recently had the opportunity to accompany Matt Wrightsteel on a five day trip to Big Bend State Park, via McDonald Observatory where Matt was working on a project for Alcalde magazine.
August 21, 2023
John Warnock, co-founder and CEO of Adobe, died on August 19th, 2023, aged 82.