The black and white candidate
BARACK OBAMA MAY or may not become the first black president, but he is the first black-and-white candidate of this century.
Newsmagazines:
A conversation about survival
Amid Capeci, the AME/Design of Newsweek and Arthur Hochstein, the design director of Time, are midtown rivals. I've worked with both designers. Amid was at Esquire when I got there in the early 90s, and I persuaded him to move to Newsweek during one of the four redesigns I've been involved with. He left for a while to go to Rolling Stone, so we have a lot in common!
Time for a redesign
LAST FRIDAY, 16 March, Time magazine appeared with a new design by Luke Hayman of Pentagram. (Luke talked about his on-staff redesign of New York on this site in December, and I reviewed the new Time.com a little later.)
Out of Time
ON THE DAY last week when Time.com’s redesign appeared, I was having lunch with a young magazine designer with a live interest in online media, a combination that is getting less rare. This guy is a survivor of Giant and Shock (if he applies to work on your magazine, watch out), and he asked me what I would do with Time. My first response was that if they held a gun to my head and told me they would pull the trigger if I didn’t come up with an editorial strategy for the leading newsmagazine, I would say, “Go ahead and shoot.”
A conversation with
Luke Hayman
OVER THE PAST couple of years I’ve become increasingly aware of the work of Luke Hayman, until recently the design director of New York magazine. (Isn’t it refreshing that the title was not “creative director”?) The magazine, with editor Adam Moss, has again become New York’s essential survival guide, and the visual side got better and better.