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Designing Woman Tina Brown

Filed under: Eds. Tagged: Bernard Schoenbaum, cartoons, Charles Barsotti, circulation, design, Jack Ziegler, Rea Irvin, Tina Brown, typography

From today's New York Post (via MediaBistro): "Tina Brown has turned to legendary avant-garde design firm Number 17 to handle her new yet-to-be-named Web venture, a news-aggregation service that is being backed by her longtime friend, media mogul Barry Diller." I can attest both to No. 17's design acumen and their laudable foosball hosting and playing skills.

Elsewhere in design, journalism and political science double major (and keyboard player) Teddy Applebaum, given the challenge of a mock blow-in card, struggled among various versions of Rea Irvin's New Yorker typeface and their cost ("oodles of cash"), and had to settle for a poor imitation. Occasional spelling oversights aside, I think the kid's got something, don't you?

Speaking of blow-in cards, there was an eloquent defense of them in Wired some months ago that I keep thinking about, and not just because of the witty execution. It seems the cards really bring in the dough, and in these uncertain times, that's something we've got to support (as this Jack Ziegler cartoon suggests), right? Or at least not judge too harshly, especially when in the forest, which could probably use more edifying reading material, anyway.

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