What happened to PRINT magazine this month?
June 16th, 2010
Given Milton Glaser’s reputation as a champion of ethics in design, I wonder how he feels about this month’s issue of PRINT. The cover features a massive illustration by the iconic designer, overlayed with the headline “30 Design Superstars — Who has the power and who’s on the way up?” How exciting!
Leaf through its pages, though, and you realize there’s no such article in the magazine. Yes, there are probably 30 designers in the issue if you felt like counting, and yes they’re probably on the way up, but as near as I can tell, that’s the extent of the tie-in.
Did anyone else feel bamboozled by this?
While I understand it’s probably hard to push Designer Tote Bags off the rack, and I’m sure sales are dwindling, as a big fan of PRINT, I hope this isn’t the start of an editorial push which sacrifices common decency for sales.
(I’d also like to note that their new Designer Couples feature is frustratingly similar to The Strange Attractor’s wonderful ongoing Creative Couples series.)
June 25, 2010, 5:14 pm
I thumbed through this issue several times at B&N thinking I was missing it. Ultimately came to the same head-scratching conclusion – they must be referring to the aggregate amount of all designers featured in the magazine. Weak.