Phillip Toledano has been on the top my list of hero photographers since my days in college. While I’m often not so overwhelmed with a lot of commercial shooters’ personal work Toledano’s newest project “A New Kind of Beauty” is just plain stellar. Photographed in the style of a classical painter the images truly draw [...]
The American Society of Magazine Editors just announced the nominations for the Best Covers the Year and I’m pleased to say one of mine is among them. This cover was shot last year for Field & Stream magazine’s cheap thrills issue and is in the Sports & Fitness category. The image was a collaboration between [...]
People launched its Ipad app yesterday. The app is a great step forward in tow major ways. First the design while still sharp and smart is simpler than many of the other magazine apps out there making for much easier and sensible navigation. Unlike some of the other magazines, I don’t find my self clicking [...]
What I thought would be a few days break from blogging due to a busy schedule turned into a full blown two month hiatus. To say we’ve been busy at the studio would be an understatement. The past eight weeks have been spent on 16 photo shoots, 4 videos, and 2 red camera shoots. After [...]
A pretty great interview was posted yesterday at The Loud Cloud Creative featuring the magazine industry’ star designer Scott Dadich. It’s a great and in depth discussion about Dadich’s experience and thoughts taking a magazine into the age of the tablet. As we all gear up for this new world of video and moving images [...]
Following the smashing success of what I felt was a very much overrated Avatar, 3D has seemingly become the current trend in the move industry. With magazines looking for technological gimmicks in an effort to regain readership I’m not surprised to hear that 3D is coming to the publishing industry. Playboy will be rolling out [...]
I was leafing through Fast Co the other day and came across this great Dan Winters image of an oil well on fire. I was quite curious how he managed to find an oil rig that happened to be up in flames. Fortunately I had lunch with Fast Co photo director Meghan Hurley last week [...]
The 2010 T Design Spring Issue featured a pretty fantastic spread from one of my heros of photography and a former employer Ilan Rubin. Ilan ranks as one of the very top influences on my career and I had the very good fortune to land a gig as his retoucher for half a year or [...]
Fresh from the New York Times this evening comes an article entitled “For Photographers, Image of a Shrinking Path”. The article basically goes onto tell us basically an all too familiar story of too few assignments and too few fees to make a living as a professional in the industry. It goes on to discuss [...]
The big five (Hearst, Time Inc, Condé Nast, Meredith, and Wenner) have come together in an attempt to convince readers print is still king. With the help of agency Y&R NY the five companies are putting out “The Power of Print” campaign starting in May. The ads will run in almost 100 different magazines and [...]
