After a semester in Professor Strong’s publication design, I’ve learned so much about what design means and how easy it can be to become a designer in just a few short months. It was a challenge trying to narrow down… Continue Reading
While I couldn’t find a complete color palette for the New Yorker online, I looked through multiple issues of the publication and looked for similarities with my own eyes, and found a few. The New Yorker is mainly black and… Continue Reading
The New Yorker uses a variety of images in its publication. The most iconic imagery often associated with the New Yorker are its illustrations, though. The cover is always an illustration or painting of some sort from an artist, and… Continue Reading
The New Yorker uses a few furniture elements in their publication. For starters, at the top of some of the departments, there are illustrations that go with the theme of the department (for example, see below with the “Talk of… Continue Reading
The New Yorker uses Irvin as the typeface for its nameplate, headlines, folios, bylines and department headings throughout every publication. In the table of contents, each department is in Irvin but the rest of the type is in Caslon, which… Continue Reading
The New Yorker is a magazine that encourages the readers to think, specifically about social issues and the world around them. As a mostly word-driven magazine with the visuals being mainly illustrations, it seems book-ish. As for the front cover,… Continue Reading
After reading the “Lessons Learned” blog post from previous students, here’s what I took away: Grids are everything. The common theme of each of these students’ comments was the importance of grid layouts. I remember from the introductory class of… Continue Reading
The January 20 edition of the New Yorker was in honor of Martin Luther King Day. The cover shows children painting a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. and the message portrayed was that these are the new generation carrying… Continue Reading