There’s a question I hear from nearly publications director I work with: “How often should we redesign our magazine?”

Brand your departments with the same care with which you brand your magazine.

If you’re using rag text in your magazine layout, be sure to take the following steps to minimize disruptions to the reader’s progress.

Magazine publishers must grapple with three distinct reading styles.

While few readers may consume an entire magazine in one sitting, it’s helpful to build your publication as if they will.

It’s only a little hyperbolic to suggest that, for every association, there is an equal and opposite association. That their members share the same political values seems unlikely, at best.

How could a crowd-sourced cover produce anything but the world’s ugliest camel?

When does a proverb pass into the domain of cliché?

Creating a parody of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for the cover of Signature

The hed/dek custom has a specific purpose, even if fewer and fewer people experience the format in its original source.

What makes a magazine cover good? More precisely, what makes a magazine cover work?

Creating parodies of famous paintings to celebrate the Excel Awards

Our industry is nothing if not a history of technological changes that wrought havoc with the status quo.

How do you show diversity?

Without demonstrating a clear and articulate voice, designers might just as well be stupid.

How do designers navigate the creative differences that invariably arise between themselves and editors or clients?

So one-size-fits-all has arrived for design. It shouldn’t have been hard to see this coming.

I want to look at the redesign of a totally different kind of animal: Bats (the member publication of Bat Conservation International).

A magazine that fails to evolve will almost always fail to challenge its readers, too.