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Roger Black (Designer: Rolling Stone, Newsweek, New York, more)
Roger Black (Designer: Rolling Stone, Newsweek, New York, more)
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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Apr 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Roger Black is a pioneer. His art direction of iconic print brands and high-profile redesigns, his early embrace of digital publishing technology, and his typographic innovations are hallmarks of a 50-year, trailblazing career.
He’s refined his design mastery at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Esquire to Newsweek to The New York Times Magazine. He’s written books and started companies. He’s worked for clients on every continent.
And now, at 73, Black’s focus has shifted to type. More specifically Type Network, a font platform launched in 2016, where he serves as the company’s chairman.
Black’s design legacy not only includes memorable makeovers but also the fundamental need for an underlying reason and purpose behind them, often sophisticated, always functional. Throw in his signature color palette — red, white, and of course, Black — and you’re in business.
All that said, Black preaches that the true DNA of a successful brand identity is its typography.
We talked to Black about…..
- why he left home in the third grade ...
- how an early blunder almost cost him his publishing career...
- what it felt like to follow in his mother’s footsteps at the New York Times...
- what he thinks are the five best-executed magazines of all time...
- ...And about why he’s always on the move — and where he’s headed next.
He’s refined his design mastery at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Esquire to Newsweek to The New York Times Magazine. He’s written books and started companies. He’s worked for clients on every continent.
And now, at 73, Black’s focus has shifted to type. More specifically Type Network, a font platform launched in 2016, where he serves as the company’s chairman.
Black’s design legacy not only includes memorable makeovers but also the fundamental need for an underlying reason and purpose behind them, often sophisticated, always functional. Throw in his signature color palette — red, white, and of course, Black — and you’re in business.
All that said, Black preaches that the true DNA of a successful brand identity is its typography.
We talked to Black about…..
- why he left home in the third grade ...
- how an early blunder almost cost him his publishing career...
- what it felt like to follow in his mother’s footsteps at the New York Times...
- what he thinks are the five best-executed magazines of all time...
- ...And about why he’s always on the move — and where he’s headed next.
Released:
Apr 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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Michele Outland (Designer: Bon Appétit, Gather Journal, Nylon, more): Michele Outland has spent her career at some really beautiful magazines. Beautiful ... because she made them that way. Her resume includes stops at Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, Domino, Nylon, and Bon Appétit, as well as the magazine she created and launched with her good friend, Fiorella Valdesolo: Gather Journal. Gather, which only published 13 issues, made a powerful impact on the magazine business. In its five-year run, it won a James Beard Award for Visual Storytelling, an Art Director’s Club Award, and 20 medals from the Society of Publication Designers, including being named “Brand of the Year” in 2015. Under her leadership, Bon Appétit won the ASME National Magazine Award for Design along with a slew of SPD awards. We talked to Michele about: the power of internships, her Korean mother’s influence on the way she thinks about food, about how to start a magazine in a post-print world — and when we can ex by Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!)