Despite the long-rumoured "end of print", there have never been so many magazine titles available, as more and more titles are printed in ever-increasing print-runs. This book sets out to examine the whole culture of magazines from the point of view of their design. It shows how the look of a magazine is defined by factors such as advertising and distribution, and how the current pluralistic approach means that there is more visual variety than ever before. Five sections deal with format, covers, pace, words and images, and the book provides a record of international magazine trends. It takes a broad look at examples from America, Europe and Japan, both mass-market and lesser-known titles. The text includes comment and opinion from leading art directors.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Issues: New Magazine Design is an excellent book, which illustrates thoroughly the finest examples of magazine design from Europe, America and Japan. The book is divided into five sections covering format, covers, pace, words and images. With over 300 colour photographs, you are treated to an amazing in-depth look at the wonderful world of magazine design, ranging from mass-market titles to less famous experimental magazines. The enthusiasm of Jeremy Leslie and Lewis Blackwell for great design is evident in this exceptionally well presented book. It is a celebration of excellent design in itself. In my opinion it is a must have book, that you simply must add to your collection. A book to treasure for years to come!
Charles Proctor
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An excellent book which which is cleverly divided in order to help the reader. Excellent examples of published magazines.
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Great Book
2 April 2001
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one of the best magazine design books, hands down. this book showcases the most progressive magazines out there as well as some nicely designed spreads. more than just pictorials, it goes into what each magazine is about and the concept behind it/cover. well designed and a great resource
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More Design Porn
22 Jun 2006
By A. Ross
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This is a decent overview of what happened to magazine design when desktop publishing became mainstream in the '90s. Each of the book's five sections are preceded by a pretty decent 2-page introduction to the various elements (format, covers, pace, words, pictures) and are inset with a section highlighting particular magazines (Blow, Vanidad, 2wice, Speak, Econy). The lessons learned aren't particularly shocking: indie magazines have more flexibility of format, the excesses of Raygun designer David Carson led to a backlash of formalism, sometimes less is more, etc. The book is chock full of examples of covers and spreads (mostly from European fashion and style magazines), which is all very nice and most designers will find inspiration here and there. My own favorites are the vertical format of Spanish magazine In Juve and the covers of the magazine produced by British newspaper The Independent. However, like almost every design book about magazines, it's not particularly practical for the average designer (eg. the constraints imposed by advertising are glossed over), but serves more as design porn. And while it's kind of interesting to see how some designers push the envelope on format, examples like the $425 issue 24 of Visionaire are more alienating than inspiring. Finally, Leslie apparently thought it would be interesting or "designery" to run all the captions perpendicular to the the rest of the contents, forcing one to turn the book 90 degrees every spread. That's not interesting, it's just stupid and annoying.
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A must!
19 Jan 2002
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Being an avid reader of magazines for as long as i can remember, i found that this book was very informative on the reasons why they are so appealing: with many interesting examples of avant-garde magazine designs, or just simply intelligent concepts, this book is a must for any magazine addict. A great addition to my library!
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