The Society for News Design

Tangents

• Designing a better subway map
  “A diagram is a diagram. Don’t cheat me,” says a heated Massimo Vignelli during an AIGA/NY event earlier this year. It’s been over 30 years since the Italian designer’s New York subway map was axed, but it’s still a passionate issue. [from tysone]
  
• Allen Neuharth of USA Today Says: Not on His Watch
  Allen H. Neuharth, 86, the former Gannett executive who founded USA Today nearly 30 years ago, had some tart words for the people now in charge of his beloved paper. [from tysone]
  
• The Onion: Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers
  'And, just last week, The Washington Post began printing their newspaper on hot fluffy pancakes." [from tysone]
  
• TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults
  The Onion takes on TIME's visual language — and a few other things. [from mattmansfield]
  
• ASME Announces the 2010 Best Magazine Cover Contest Finalists
  “Magazine covers capture iconic moments in American life. They tell us where we’ve been and where we’re going,” said Sid Holt, Chief Executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors. [from tysone]
  
• Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design
  It is so easy to love a certain effect and want to use that everywhere. Not all projects need to have the selections sitting on a perfectly lit wooden bookshelf. On one hand we want to be creative and make something that is appealing and can sell the product. On the other side we have to question the cost of that approach on the experience itself and balance style and function with purpose. [from tysone]
  
• Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
  "A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see." [from tysone]
  

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