Design Magazine Suggestions to Replace Communication Arts

March 23, 2005 10:53 AM

Designers: our marketing/communications department has had a Communication Arts subscription for a while now. The past few issues seem to have taken it into a new editorial direction. Much less inspiring stuff there. Is there some hot new contender that we should look at subscribing to instead? We'd probably only get just one.
posted by willnot to media & arts (9 comments total)

Sorry that I don't have an answer, but I do have a question: I haven't read CA in a long time, what is this "new editorial direction" you refer to? Can you be more specific?
posted by jca at 11:13 AM on March 23, 2005

The new direction STEP has been taking for the last year isn't bad.
posted by Stan Chin at 11:39 AM on March 23, 2005

It's not an up-and-comer, but I've always enjoyed PRINT over CA.
posted by safetyfork at 12:45 PM on March 23, 2005

jca - recently, it seems like they're much more story focused. There is a lot more text and seems to be a lot fewer examples of really great and inspiring work. With this kind of thing, I mostly just want to look at the pretty pictures.
posted by willnot at 1:34 PM on March 23, 2005

HOW is my favorite. Always lots of good work.
posted by ryanissuper at 2:13 PM on March 23, 2005

Print has always been my favorite. They always have great annuals too.
posted by helvetica at 2:18 PM on March 23, 2005

pony up for some real graphic design:

http://www.eyemagazine.com/
posted by c at 4:42 PM on March 23, 2005

that is one butt ugly website. is it broken under firefox?
posted by andrew cooke at 4:37 AM on March 24, 2005

I'm gonna play the wildcard and suggest ..., a very eclectic journal. May I also second "Eye", and of course Emigre.

Marvellous user name by the way :-)
posted by tommyc at 7:20 AM on March 24, 2005