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I’ll be pretty busy this week, getting the May issue together. We launched the magazine<\/a> in 1999, and I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve yet to do any sort of redesign since then. But dammit, Jim, I’m an editor, not a designer!<\/p>\n

Except that we all do our own designs at my company, which is why the mags tend to look like they were laid out by editors. Anyway, to make myself feel even more inadequate as a designer, I read this long, engaging interview with “British editorial design icon” David Hillman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To compound my sense of half-assing things, I read this insanely in-depth article about the design of Monocle’s magazine and website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I was able to get some laughs from this gallery of The Onion’s Sunday magazine covers<\/a>. (link via macCulture<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(If you’re interested in what magazines I subscribe to, here’s the list<\/a>.)
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I’ll be pretty busy this week, getting the May issue together. We launched the magazine in 1999, and I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve yet to do any sort of redesign since then. But dammit, Jim, I’m an editor, not a designer! Except that we all do our own designs at my company, which is … <\/p>\n

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