Stuff I Learned By Actually Reading This Month's Print Magazine

{subtitle: Instead of just looking at the pretty pictures}

• The New Yorker Magazine is redesigning their web site. (link)

• I'm not the only person who can be swayed (or dissuaded from) buying a book, just by its cover.
• James Harvey, an abstract expressionist painter and reluctant graphic designer, created the pacakging for Brillo pads that were later immortalized by Andy Warhol. (link)
• Steven Heller reads Today's Inspiration. Both seem to be enamored with Cold War Era hygiene ads at the moment. (link)




• Obsessions (on page 97) is the best little column in Print. It's a straight-to-the-point list of useful nuggets and not-to-be-missed tidbits by the venerable House of Pretty tagteam.

Here are the must-have links culled from the Obsessions column:

1. Font Shop's Worn Type Technique
2. 12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them
3. Painter's Picker
4. Chromatic Bytes: Shades
5. Mac Color Picker Palette Tools by Code Poetry
6. Chris Messina's Interface Design Inspiration
7. CSS Type