Magazines Inside & Out [Paperback]

Steven Heller (Author), Teresa Fernandes (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Pbc Intl (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0866364935
• ISBN-13: 978-0866364935
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,624,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven Heller, author and editor of over 130 books on graphic design, satiric art and popular culture, is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is also co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism, MFA in Interaction Design, MFA Social Documentary Film and MPS Branding programs. Although he does not hold an undergraduate or graduate degree he has devoted much of his career to fostering design education venues, opportunities and environments.

On the editorial side, for over 40 years he has been an art director for various underground and mainstream periodicals. For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times (28 of them as senior art director New York Times Book Review). He currently writes the "Visuals" column for the Book Review and "Graphic Content" for the T-Style/The Moment blog (http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/author/steven-heller/). He is editor of AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design, a contributing editor to Print, EYE, and Baseline, and a frequent contributor to Metropolis and ID magazines. He contributes regularly to Design Observer and writes the DAILY HELLER blog for Print Magazine (http://blog.printmag.com/dailyheller/). His 135 books include "Design Literacy, " "Paul Rand," "Graphic Style" (with Seymour Chwast), "Stylepedia" (with Louise Fili), "The Design Entrepreneur" and "Design School Confidential" (both with Lita Talarico), "Iron Fists: Branding the Twentieth Century Totalitarian State", and the most recent, "Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig."

He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement. His website is www.hellerbooks.com and his blog, The Daily Heller sponsored by Print magazine is http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/

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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Survey of the mid '80s to mid '90s, June 27, 2006

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This review is from: Magazines Inside & Out (Paperback)

This survey of mid '80s to mid '90s magazine design is notable for the breadth of examples -- some 70 different titles. Most of these are given their own spread, with a few hundred words about each, several sample covers and several sample interior spreads. As with most books of this kind, art and design titles tend to dominate, along with lifestyle, and culture, although other categories include news and business, as well as science and technology. Most of the titles are from the U.S., with the typical smattering of European titles (is there any book on magazines that doesn't include Bennetton's "Colors"?), an Asian title and a few Brazilians. The text is good when it isn't marred by the numerous typos and occasional references to design features that aren't apparent in the sample images. In fact, a recurring problem with the book is the size of the sample images. Many are too small to adequately present the design solutions, and the book would have been better served by fewer, but larger, reproductions. Overall, a useful survey, but some ten years on, a but dated.

3.0 out of 5 stars a brief look at magazine editorial direction & design layout, October 10, 2002

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Sik Yan Choi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magazines Inside & Out (Paperback)

This introductory survey at magazine editorial direction and design layout is divided into five sections to give a brief discussion on magazines in various categories: Art, architecture and design; news and business; lifestyle; science and technology; and culture. Each survey on a particular magazine is only given a two- page overview with just a few words and some irrelevant pictures chosen from the mag. Though some points are insightful, further elaborations are lacking.