June 25th, 2009
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Archive for the 'editorial' Category
June 22nd, 2009
Tennis Magazine Redesign
“Pentagram first provided Tennis with a new font family to draw from. Working with designer Rami Moghadam, Hayman created a custom logo for the masthead, based on the rounded fonts and typographic language of the mid-seventies to early eighties. Moving away from the generic and static Helvetica, the main font became Omnes, modified by Joshua Darden of Darden Studios. The new faces combine the sport’s outdoor energy with the soft springy roundness of a tennis ball; you can almost hear it bounce on the white space.”
More after the jump from Luke Hayman.
February 12th, 2009
Editorial Design for “Big,” by Butter
December 23rd, 2008
Editorial Work from Erin Jang
Lovely Editorial Work from the pages of Esquire by designer/illustrator Erin Jang.
December 2nd, 2008
Dezeen Magazine
I’m a fan of the identity designed by Design Science Office, in addition to the extreme column page layout for Dezeen Magazine. The content is nice: timely, if not the most unique design related editorial. I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of this publication before now.
December 1st, 2008
Design Science Office
November 23rd, 2008
The Work of “Hi”
September 10th, 2008
Lovely Typography from the Darden Studio
The font “Freight” by the Darden Studio, a lovely and space efficent serif font for display and text has been making it’s way into quite a few editorial redesigns recently, including Better Homes & Gardens, Out Magazine, and a redesign of the ‘Khaleej Times’, the Persian Gulf’s leading English language newspaper, by Luke Hayman and Paula Scher.
July 15th, 2008
Radar Redux
Via Pentagram:
Luke Hayman and Radar design director Kate Elazegui have collaborated on the redesign of Radar magazine that launches with the July/August issue, currently on newsstands. The current iteration, its third, launched in 2007, and it also publishes a popular website, RadarOnline. The stops and starts of the magazine left its look largely up for grabs, and the brief for the redesign was tricky.
Radar’s focus is somewhat similar to Vanity Fair—celebrity mixed with serious journalism—but unlike VF, it is not part of the establishment, and its tone is humorous, mocking and more than a little absurd. At the same time it has broken substantial investigative stories (“Gangs of Iraq”) and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2008.
This mix of the serious, the savvy and the superficial presented a challenge for the designers. For inspiration Hayman and his team looked at legendary anti-establishment publications from the 1960s and 70s: the countercultural newspaper The East Village Other; the satirical magazines Private Eye and Oz; and the classic Nova that successfully combined pop culture, politics and fashion.
The resulting look is antic, fun and flexible enough to accommodate all sorts. Typographically the magazine is bizarre and eclectic, using a varied collection of fonts to create a madcap spirit. Cooper Black is employed for its Pop touch; FF Elementa, a typewriter font, for its ephemeral immediacy and implied journalistic integrity. Plantin is used for the text font and in bold condensed for headlines. Layouts make use of more straight illustration and information graphics, along with the outrageous photo composites the magazine is known for.