Table Of ContentThe 46Th
PublicaTion
Design
annual
from The
socieTy of
PublicaTion
Designers
This book celebrates the most
outstanding editorial design
produced in 2010, created for
editorial publications across
all print, web and tablet
platforms, from consumer,
trade, corporate and digital
magazines and newspapers.
Gathered here, the Annual
is an essential resource
for all graphic designers,
educators, students, corporate
communication executives,
editors and publishers,
featuring design, photography
and illustration to inspire
all. Selected by a jury of more
than 40 exemplary visual
journalists, the winning work
from SPD’s Pub 46 includes
Merit awards for achievement,
silver medals for Distinctive
Achievement, and gold medals
for Excellence. Also included
are the Magazine of the Year
winner and the first-ever
Tablet App of the Year, the
winners of the 2010 Spots
competition, and the winners
of the SPD Student Design and
Photo competitions.
ON THE COVER
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Joe Colley, ISSUES is an
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of over 2000 domestic
and imported titles on all
subjects. Our goal is to be as
comprehensive as possible and
to support the varied interests
of our community whether
that means art, food, music,
european fashion or even
Cat Fancy. People need stuff
to read, and take it from us:
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CONTENTS
COMMENTARY
CREDITS
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Magazine of the Year 007
MeMbers' ChoiCe 035
Design 039
PhotograPhY 167
illustration 269
Digital 301
sPots 319
stuDent CoMPetition 328
this book stands as a compelling visual testimony to 2010. to help gain a perspective
on what occurred and how this was represented in innovative design, photography,
and illustration, we commissioned 5 incisive essays from 5 influential members of our
editorial community who were on hand to see these significant events take shape:
ThE FRED EFFECT
bY aDaM raPPaPort, editor-in-chief, bon Appétit 006
ThE DEATh AND LIFE OF ThE NEwSwEEKLY
bY hugo linDgren, editor-in-chief, the new york times mAgAzine 038
COvERINg hAITI bY ThE MINuTE
bY Kira PollaCK, photo director, time 166
pOp CuLTuRE 2010
bY jess Cagle, mAnAging editor, entertAinment weekly 268
ThE DIgITAL DIASpORA
bY jiM Meigs, editor-in-chief, populAr mechAnics 298
CoVer & booK Design Carl De torres & eriK Carnes
CoVer PhotograPh toDD hiDo
interior PhotograPhs toDD tanKersleY
Photo DireCtion CarolYn rauCh
art & eDitorial DireCtion Don Morris
CreatiVe DireCtion Carl De torres graPhiC Design
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ChairS anDrea DunhaM, design director, people, co-chAir 01
luke haYMan, pArtner, pentAgrAm, mAgAzine of the yeAr chAir 02
branDon kavulla, creAtive director, wired, co-chAir 03
josh klenert, creAtive director, cleAr chAnnel digitAl, digitAl co-chAir 04
jereMY laCroix, creAtive director, cbs interActive, digitAl co-chAir 05
nanCY staMatoPoulos, Art director, supermArket news, comp. cApt. 06
CapTaiNS aMY berkleY, photo editor, field & streAm 07 01 02
Debra bishoP, creAtive director, more 08
Chris CurrY, illustrAtion editor, the new yorker 09
nathalie kirsheh, design director, detAils 10
WYatt MitChell, design director, editoriAl design group, condé nAst 11
jennifer Pastore, photo director, teen vogue 12
JuDgES florian baChleDa, creAtive director, fAst compAny 13
gail biChler, Art director, the new york times mAgAzine 14 09 10
aMiD CaPeCi, design director, entertAinment weekly 15
DaviD CiCConi, founder, creAtive director, trunk mAgAzine 16
ken Delago, design director, golf digest 17
john Dixon, Art director, the villAge voice 18
kate elazegui, creAtive director, sypArtners 19
lauren ePstein, deputy photo editor, reAl simple 20
robert festino, creAtive director, men's heAlth 21
kristin fitzPatriCk, design director, mArie clAire 22
17 18
sCher foorD, design director, people.com 23
thoMas fuChs, illustrAtor 24
shaWn greene, Art director, nAtionAlgeogrAphic.com 25
geralDine hessler, design director, glAmour 26
rob heWitt, design director, condé nAst trAveler 27
CinDY hoffMan, design director, bloomberg businessweek 28
neil jaMieson, design director, money 29
laurie kratoChvil, photo director, nomAd editions 30
25 26
MiChael laWton, design director, populAr mechAnics 31
graCe lee, design director, o, the oprAh mAgAzine 32
eD levine, creAtive director, psychology todAy 33
natalie MatutsChovskY, AssociAte photo editor, time 34
jennifer Miller, photo director 35
vikki nestiCo, Art director, men's heAlth 36
benjaMen Purvis, creAtive director, men's JournAl 37
joDY Quon, director of photogrAphy, new york 38
Paul ritter, design director, elle 39 33 34
sarah rozen, director of photogrAphy, women's heAlth 40
travis ruse, director of photogrAphy, inc. 41
DaviD sChloW, deputy design director, people 42
Yuko shiMizu, illustrAtor 43
MitCh shostak, creAtive director, shostAk studios 44
Dora soMosi, director of photogrAphy, gQ 45
joshua turk, sr creAtive director, thompson reuters 46
joe zeff, president, Joe zeff design 47 41 42
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03 04 05 06 07 08
11 12 13 14 15 16
19 20 21 22 23 24
27 28 29 30 31 32
35 36 37 38 39 40
Portraits
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THE
FRED
EFFECT
by adam rappaport
editor-in-chief, Bon appétit
in the ten years I worked with Fred Woodward at ing Wayne, his maze of body art seamlessly echoing And that’s the thing, Fred has not only nurtured an
GQ, I never once saw him use a computer. Chelsea’s handiwork. entire generation of up-and-coming young designers,
Well, maybe that’s not entirely true. He did keep I’m sure Fred can draw just fine, but there’s no he’s also always been an editor, in the truest sense
one of those huge art-director iMac monitors sitting way he could’ve or would’ve drawn that page. Like of the word. He’s always made sure that his staff
on his spotless white desk. And he’d often have, say, so many other GQ stories, it was a design scheme in not only grasps the content of GQ, but helps drive it
Johnny Cash or Serge Gainsbourg streaming from its absolute lock step with the story itself. Created by a too. At our monthly edit meetings, Fred would often
Harmon Kardon speakers. But if the thing had InDe- staffer, guided by Fred. show up with a couple of newspaper clippings, each
sign or Photoshop loaded onto it, Fred never gave pegged to a topic he thought the magazine should be
either a single click. covering. And he’d inevitably get revved up about
Instead, he liked to ride shotgun. Whenever I’d some story idea that was being bandied about and
wander back into the art department to nose around, how “we gotta own that thang!”, he’d shout in his
Fred would be pulled up next to Chelsea Cardinal or Mississippi drawl. “That’s not just an article, that’s
Drue Wagner or Anton Iouknhovets or Tom Alberty, a book! C’mon, man!”
staring at their computer screens. Every now and then Oh yeah, that’s another thing about Fred. Work
"Fred has
he would nod, utter a barely-audible word or two, and with him long enough, and you learn that he’s not
gently point at some element of the in-progress layout. not only just some quiet, bespectacled art director. “Two-beer
Now, as a young-ish editor trying to gain a foot- Fred,” as the guys at Texas Monthly used to call him. Get
nurtured
hold at GQ, I didn’t understand what the hell Fred a couple drinks in the guy, and suddenly he’s whoop-
was doing. If you wanted something done well, you an entire ing it up, all Mississippi twang, hootin’ and hollerin’.
did it yourself, right? That’s how I operated, at least. Wait, what’s that—he was the starting quarterback
generation oF
Why assign a 250-word piece when I could just write on his high school football team? All three years! And
it quickly myself and move on to the next task? up-and-coming the point guard on his basketball team, too? And he
And from what I’d heard, Fred was the LeBron James once dropped 44 in a game? Seriously!
young
of design directors. He apparently had won a slew of Of course, his staff knows this side of Fred plenty
awards while at Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly, even designers, well—they’ve had plenty to celebrate with him over
directed some music videos and knocked out a cou- the years. But they also know all too well how hard
he’s also
ple books. The guy was a one-man team. So why was he drives them and how unrelenting he is when he
he spending so much time parked next to these kids? always been doesn’t have beers 1 and 2 him. And, while they might
Of course, I began to realize—that maybe Fred actu- not be happy about it at 8:45pm on Tuesday night, with
an editor,
ally knew what he was doing and maybe I didn’t. him peering over their shoulder, they know they’re
All you need to do is take one glance at the open- in the truest all far stronger designers because of him.
ing spread of Devin Friedman’s brilliant, understated sense oF And as any of us regular, not-so-design-inclined
profile of Lil’ Wayne from 2009. Chelsea Cardinal’s editors know, we’ve all benefited significantly from
the word."
intoxicating, hand-drawn title page—like some stoned working with him. Because Fred hasn’t just made
eighth-grader’s notebook doodling—sits across from GQ a better-looking magazine, he’s made it a better
a Terry Richardson portrait of a shirtless, weed-smok- magazine, period.
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M a g a z i n e o f t h e Y e a r
M eM b e r s ' C h o iC e
D e s i g n
P h o t o g r aP h Y
i l l u s t r a t i o n
D i g i t a l
s Po t s
s t uD e n t C o M Pe t i t i o n
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0080 seCtion aWarD
MaGaZine of the year Gold
001
001 GQ
desiGn director Fred Woodward / art director Anton Ioukhnovets / desiGners Thomas Alberty, Chelsea Cardinal, Delgis Canahuate, Benjamin Bours /
illustrators Andy Friedman, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Daniel Clowes, Zohar Lazar, John Veland, John Ritter, Lou Beach, Ward Sutton / director of photoGraphy Dora Somosi /
photo editors Justin O’Neill, Krista Prestek, Jolanta Bielat, Jesse Lee / photoGraphers Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Peggy Sirota, Eric Ray Davidson, Scott Schuman,
Tom Schierlitz, Morad Bouchakour, Ben Watts, Paola Kudacki, Nathaniel Goldberg, Nigel Cox, Moses Berkson, David Rinella, Henry Woodward, Alexei Hay, Finlay Mackay,
Martin Schoeller, Mark Seliger, Amanda Marsalis, Robert Maxwell, Terry Richardson, Chris Buck, Zachary Scott, Danielle Levitt / creative director, fashion Jim Moore /
editor-in-chief Jim Nelson / puBlisher Condé Nast Publications Inc. / issues June 2010, August 2010, September 2010 / cateGory Magazine of the Year /
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