Two of my design heroes
Name: Fred Woodward
Born: 1953, Louisville, MS
Career highlights: Rolling Stone Magazine (Art Director 1987-2001)
GQ Magazine (Art Director 2001-present)
Virtuoso of American publishing design and creator of Rolling Stone’s visual sensibility. The visual language Woodward developed for Rolling Stone between 1987 and 2001 was expressive and eclectic, containing elements both of cool modernism and of American vernacular such as fat ornamental wood-block display faces, composition deriving from 19th-century handbills, and a weathered color palette.
“Woodward and his talented staff have set a new standard for what editorial design can be, in what must be one of the longer hot streaks in magazine design history. Surveying his work, one is struck not just by its formal beauty and appropriateness, but by the sheer virtuosity of its design responses.”
-Michael Bierut
NOTE: Remember you can click on any image to see it larger.
The two names that changed design in the ’80s and ’90s: Mac and Tibor. One changed the way we work, the other the way we think. The former is a tool, the latter was our conscience.
TIBOR KALMAN: The Perverse Optimist
Born: Budapest 1949 Died: NY 1999
Career Highlights: Founder of M&Co, creative director of Interview and Colors Magazines.
One of the COLORS magazine issues, in this case dealing with the subject of race.
3 images of his famous "What If" series (From Colors Magazine).
He was prophetic about this one :—)
The optimist's umbrella.
Still being sold at the Museum of Modern Art in NY.
His subtly subversive version of your typical office clock.
Born: 1953, Louisville, MS
Career highlights: Rolling Stone Magazine (Art Director 1987-2001)
GQ Magazine (Art Director 2001-present)
Virtuoso of American publishing design and creator of Rolling Stone’s visual sensibility. The visual language Woodward developed for Rolling Stone between 1987 and 2001 was expressive and eclectic, containing elements both of cool modernism and of American vernacular such as fat ornamental wood-block display faces, composition deriving from 19th-century handbills, and a weathered color palette.
“Woodward and his talented staff have set a new standard for what editorial design can be, in what must be one of the longer hot streaks in magazine design history. Surveying his work, one is struck not just by its formal beauty and appropriateness, but by the sheer virtuosity of its design responses.”
-Michael Bierut
NOTE: Remember you can click on any image to see it larger.
The two names that changed design in the ’80s and ’90s: Mac and Tibor. One changed the way we work, the other the way we think. The former is a tool, the latter was our conscience.
TIBOR KALMAN: The Perverse Optimist
Born: Budapest 1949 Died: NY 1999
Career Highlights: Founder of M&Co, creative director of Interview and Colors Magazines.
One of the COLORS magazine issues, in this case dealing with the subject of race.
3 images of his famous "What If" series (From Colors Magazine).
He was prophetic about this one :—)
The optimist's umbrella.
Still being sold at the Museum of Modern Art in NY.
His subtly subversive version of your typical office clock.
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