Journal Entry No. 14

Cool Concept, Great Magazine Covers & Editorial Grids

Cool Concept, Great Magazine Covers & Editorial Grids
Updates
Presentation by Hannah Browne for Feels Zine.

Cool Concept 8

Toronto Design Directory recently hosted their Cool Concept 8, a talk series where creatives share their personal “design-y passion projects”.

If you weren’t able to attend, there’s already talk about Cool Concept 9 coming in September so keep your eyes peeled!

What makes a great magazine cover?

“Joining the conversation about magazine covers…Canada has some of the best editorial designers in the world!

Here’s a cheat sheet on why we think they work. And a sample of our favourites.”

Check out Erik’s latest article here!

Inspiration
Editorial Grid

Your Instagram feed should, to an extent, bring you some inspiration and beauty. Editorial Grid is an account Joshua recently came across that aims to bring great editorial design to the people.

Matteo Pulina for Walk The Line x On The Wall Festival.

Wael Morcos for Bold Monday.

Emily Schofield for NOIT Issue 5.

Sounds
DesignThinkers Podcast

Check out the latest episode of the DesignThinkers Podcast, featuring Khoi Vinh, a Senior Director of Design at Adobe.

“It’s always going to be much more valuable to have a story told by a human.”

Inspiration
A new Canadian design podcast

In their mission to make stories and information accessible to the design community, the Toronto Design Directory has released a podcast!

Bring to Front has aired its first two episodes featuring conversations from Fidel Peña, Creative Director at Underline Studio and Jamie Change, type designer who runs an independent foundry.

To support TDD make sure to subscribe to their channel, and their spotify.

Journal Entry No. 14

Cool Concept, Great Magazine Covers & Editorial Grids

Cool Concept, Great Magazine Covers & Editorial Grids
Updates
Presentation by Hannah Browne for Feels Zine.

Cool Concept 8

Toronto Design Directory recently hosted their Cool Concept 8, a talk series where creatives share their personal “design-y passion projects”.

If you weren’t able to attend, there’s already talk about Cool Concept 9 coming in September so keep your eyes peeled!

What makes a great magazine cover?

“Joining the conversation about magazine covers…Canada has some of the best editorial designers in the world!

Here’s a cheat sheet on why we think they work. And a sample of our favourites.”

Check out Erik’s latest article here!

Inspiration
Editorial Grid

Your Instagram feed should, to an extent, bring you some inspiration and beauty. Editorial Grid is an account Joshua recently came across that aims to bring great editorial design to the people.

Matteo Pulina for Walk The Line x On The Wall Festival.

Wael Morcos for Bold Monday.

Emily Schofield for NOIT Issue 5.

Sounds
DesignThinkers Podcast

Check out the latest episode of the DesignThinkers Podcast, featuring Khoi Vinh, a Senior Director of Design at Adobe.

“It’s always going to be much more valuable to have a story told by a human.”

Inspiration
A new Canadian design podcast

In their mission to make stories and information accessible to the design community, the Toronto Design Directory has released a podcast!

Bring to Front has aired its first two episodes featuring conversations from Fidel Peña, Creative Director at Underline Studio and Jamie Change, type designer who runs an independent foundry.

To support TDD make sure to subscribe to their channel, and their spotify.

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