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Magazeum

Patrick Mitchell

Podcasts about magazines and the people who made (and make) them.

arts design

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00:53:33

Bob Ciano (Designer: LIFE, Esquire, Wired, more)

Magazeum ·

2023/09/15

It’s a Wonderful LIFEToday’s guest, Bob Ciano, is probably best known as the designer who guided the venerable LIFE magazine into its second chapter, shifting, after five decades as a weekly, to a monthly. But in an era where editors and art directors did not enjoy the downright chummy partnerships we have now, he’s known for a lot more.In his career, which continues to this day, Ciano has punched his time card at all of these places: The Metropolitan Opera, Redbook, Opera News, Esquire, The New

00:55:50

Anita Kunz (Illustrator: The New Yorker, Rolling...

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2023/09/08

A Freaking National TreasureBy any measure, Anita Kunz has built a dream career.She’s won every award, been inducted into every hall of fame, won every medal and national distinction. When her native Canada ran out of honors to bestow, the country minted a postage stamp in her honor.Over the last 40 years, the Toronto-based illustrator has created covers for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, and many (many!) others. On top of that, she’s now authored two volumes of her own work.“She is,” as Gail

00:43:28

Jann Wenner (Founder & Editor, Rolling Stone, more)

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2023/09/01

All the News that Fit Imagine there’s no sixties.In 1967, today’s guest was a college dropout whose Plan B was to start a rock ’n’ roll magazine. Plan A? “Kicking back, having a good time, delivering letters, and smoking dope all day” as a San Francisco postal worker. But thanks to a nudge from his mentor, Ralph Gleason, and a cash infusion from his soon-to-be-wife, Jane Schindelheim, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner dove head first into Plan B. And the rest is magazine history.Imagine there’s no

01:05:09

Joanna Coles (Editor: Cosmo, Marie Claire, more)

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2023/06/23

The Last Celebrity Magazine EditorHello and welcome to a very special episode of Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!).For our first “pod-nership,” we’ve teamed up with The Spread, the brainchild of two former Elle magazine editors and “work wives,” Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock, who, in 2021 found themselves wishing for the perfect women’s magazine—at the exact moment when women’s magazines were irrevocably going down the tubes.Each week, The Spread rounds up juicy stories, big ideas, and deeply

01:08:18

Barry Blitt (Illustrator: The New Yorker, Air Mail,...

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2023/06/09

He’s Never Felt More NakedBarry Blitt wants you to laugh at him, not with him. Because laughing with him means you’d have to be where he is. And, “thanks very much,” but he’d rather not. He’s happy enough just drawing for himself.“I’m trying to make myself laugh,” he says. “That’s the point, that’s part of the process, it’s as un-self-conscious as possible.”Blitt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, and an Art Directors Club Hall of Famer. He’s been called one of the “pre-eminent American

01:01:16

Walter Bernard (Designer: New York, Time, Fortune, more)

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2023/05/26

When your business partner is Milton Glaser, the most celebrated designer in the world, what does that mean for you? If you’re Walter Bernard, today’s guest, you accept it as the gift it is, and then you go out and make yourself an extraordinary career. Here’s three things you need to know about Walter Bernard: 1) He was the founding art director of New York magazine, 2) he once produced a top-secret overhaul of Time magazine, and later became its art director, and 3), along with Glaser, he’s

01:13:29

David Granger (Editor: Esquire, more)

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2023/05/12

A Man at His F*#king BestWe’re 18 episodes into this podcast, and while several interesting themes have surfaced, one of the more unexpected threads is this: Nearly all magazine-inclined men dream of one day working at Esquire. (Some women, too).Turns out that’s also true for today’s guest. Which is a good thing because that’s exactly what David Granger did.“But all this time I’d been thinking about Esquire, longing for Esquire. It'd been my first magazine as a man, and I'd kept a very close eye on

00:46:02

Alex Hunting (Designer: Kinfolk, Mondial, Sabato, more)

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2023/04/28

For the past ten or so years, indie magazines have been booming. As digital media platforms relentlessly chase clicks and smartphones paralyze our focus, a host of fresh print publications are taking a slower and more measured approach.Guided by the tenets of the “slow media” movement, this new breed of publishers focuses on correcting the pace of media creation and consumption in the digital age. They advocate for alternative ways of making and using media that are more intentional, longer lasting,

00:53:28

Dan Okrent (Editor & Author: Life, Time, New England...

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2023/04/14

Back in April, 1966, Time magazine famously asked America the big question: “Is God Dead?”Thirty years later, as Time Inc.’s Corporate Editor at Large, Dan Okrent posed an equally existential question: “Is Print Dead?” His answer: An unequivocal “yes.”“Finished. Over. Full stop,” he declared in a 1999 lecture at the Columbia School of Journalism.Despite that, it’d be unfair to call Okrent the Grim Reaper. (Just don’t ask what he said about Detroit in the early 2000s). A lifelong realist, Okrent

00:42:13

Will Hopkins (Designer: Twen, Look, American...

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2023/03/31

If Marianna, Arkansas looks like the kind of place that Walker Evans would’ve photographed, that’s because it is. And it was in that cotton belt town in 1936 that William Paschal Hopkins came to be.Born to Charles, a cotton merchant, and Martha, young Will Hopkins was on a path to follow his father into the cotton business. But thanks to the intervention of a distant aunt, a fashion illustrator in New York City, Hopkins’ parents were persuaded into shipping their creatively-inclined boy off to the

00:53:36

Kathy Ryan (Photo Editor, Author: The New York Times...

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2023/03/17

Kathy Ryan’s career journey began in Bound Brook, New Jersey, at St Joseph’s Catholic School. Her third grade teacher, Sister Mary William, had a thing for great works of art. And, as it turns out, so did Ryan.“I got it. I so got it. Looking at the pictures and just understanding. It was like, ‘Wow, I get it.’”That understanding of the power of the visual led Ryan to a focus on art in college—on lithography and printmaking. But the solemn life of an artist wasn’t for her. She hated being alone all

00:52:17

Metropolitan Home: Dorothy Kalins (Editor) and Don...

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2023/03/03

For me, the 1980s comes down to two things: The Nakamichi RX-505 Cassette Deck and Metropolitan Home magazine.First, the gear.The Nakamichi RX-505 was an audiophile’s wet dream. It was prominently featured in the steamy 1986 film, 9½ Weeks. In a scene from that movie, Mickey Rourke walks Kim Basinger into his monochrome Hell’s Kitchen penthouse, where she glides through a living room full of furniture by Marcel Breuer, Richard Meier, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In the middle of it all, the

01:08:15

Gael Towey (Designer: Martha Stewart Living, MSLO,...

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2023/02/17

Everyone Is a SalesmanIn 1995, New York magazine declared Martha Stewart the “Definitive American Woman of Our Time.” And, as the saying goes (sort of), behind every Definitive American Woman of Our Time is another Definitive American Woman of Our Time. And that’s today’s guest, designer Gael Towey.But let’s back up. It’s 1982, and Martha Stewart, then known as the “domestic goddess” — or some other dismissive moniker — published her first book, Entertaining. It was a blockbuster success that was

01:12:58

Adam Moss (Editor: New York, The New York Times...

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2023/02/03

Adam Moss is probably painting today. He’s not ready to share it. He may never be ready to share it. You see, this ASME Hall of Famer unabashedly labels himself as “tenth rate” with the brush. And he’s okay with that.As Moss explains, it’s not about the painting. After decades of creating some of the world’s great magazines, he is throttling down. He’s working with canvas, paint, and brush — and reveling in the thrill of making something, finally, for an audience of one. It hasn’t always been this

00:48:20

Arem Duplessis (Designer: Apple, The New York Times...

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2022/07/29

Where do magazine designers go after all the magazines are gone? That’s a question we’ve often pondered in recent years.Well, if you’ve been paying close attention, you’d probably guess, as it turns out, a lot of them go to Cupertino. And much of this migration can be traced to 2014, when today’s guest, AIGA Medalist and Emmy award-winning creative director Arem Duplessis, left his storied job at The New York Times Magazine to go to work at Apple.You might be asking yourself, "Why would one of

00:41:57

Hans Teensma (Designer: Outside, New England Monthly,...

Magazeum ·

2022/07/01

Dutch-born, California-raised designer Hans Teensma began his magazine career working alongside editor Terry McDonell at Outside magazine, which Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner launched in San Francisco in 1977.When Wenner sold Outside two years later, Teensma and McDonell headed to Denver to launch a new regional, Rocky Mountain Magazine, which would earn them the first of several ASME National Magazine Awards. On the move again, Teensma’s next stop would be New England Monthly, another launch

01:30:28

Dan Winters (Photographer: The New York Times, Texas...

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2022/06/17

Photographers are gearheads. They’re always throwing around brand names, model numbers, product specs.So when legendary photographer Eddie Adams asked today’s guest, Dan Winters, if he knew how to handle a JD-450, it was a no-brainer. He had grown up with a JD-350. So yeah, the 450 would be no problem.But here’s the funny thing: the JD-450 is not made by Nikon. Or Canon. Or Fuji. Or Leica. Not even his beloved Hasselblad. Nope. The JD-450 isn’t made in Tokyo, Wetzlar, or Gothenburg.The John Deere

00:56:46

Janet Froelich (Designer: The New York Times...

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2022/06/03

Janet Froelich is one of the most influential and groundbreaking creative directors of all time. For over two decades, she lead the creative teams at The New York Times Magazine and its sister publication, T: The New York Times Style Magazine. In this episode, Froelich recalls her own personal 9/11 story, and what is was like to be in the newsroom on that awful day, as well as how she helped create the magazine cover that inspired and informed the memorial to the Twin Towers and those who lost their

00:55:16

George Gendron (Editor: Inc., New York Magazine,...

Magazeum ·

2022/05/20

In this episode, we talk to George Gendron, the long-time editor [Inc. Magazine] and educator who created one of the first liberal arts-based entrepreneurship programs in America. We talk about his first job working under legendary editor Clay Felker in the early days of New York magazine, how a third-grade book report set him up for a life in publishing, the near-fatal car accident that changed everything, why we should look to TV for the future of magazines, and how to build an

01:14:36

Brad Holland (Illustrator: Playboy, The New York...

Magazeum ·

2022/05/06

It’s 1967 and your train from Sandusky, Ohio, just rolled into Grand Central. You’ve got a suitcase in one hand and your portfolio in the other. You exit the station and take a right, uptown, before realizing it’s the wrong way. (It’s ok, you’re not from around here). So you turn around, and head down to 223 East 31st Street, the studio of the celebrated designer Herb Lubalin, who was about to give you your first assignment in the big city.And so begins the career of legendary illustrator Brad

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