“If anyone had doubts about the viability or importance of newsweeklies in the modern media world, they should have been dashed by the response last week to the death of Apple’s Steve Jobs,” Robert Newman reports for SPD. “Not only did Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Newsweek stop their production cycles on a dime and revamp with well-thought out and brilliantly-designed special issues, but they also, with covers, photos, and graphic treatments, helped drive the whole worldwide conversation about the ‘meaning ‘s Steve Jobs, turning a moment of sorrow into one of inspiration and creativity.”
“Each of the three magazines built on their visual voices to create unique graphic packages,” Newman reports. “Now that they’ve had a chance to catch up on their sleep, and have their adrenaline levels return to normal, we caught up with the art directors of Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Newsweek, and asked them to describe the process they each went through to create their special Jobs covers and issues.”
MacDailyNews Take: Newsweek is a joke, a parody of its long-lost self, and those behind it ought to be flattered out of their biased, sensationalist minds to be included in the same sentence with real newsweeklies.
Read more, and see many images (covers, behind-the-scenes shots, etc.) in the full article here.
Also, Poynter’s Julie Moos reports, “On Thursday, magazine covers were redesigned and newspaper front pages from California to Brazil honored the 56-year-old technology innovator who changed our lives and imaginations with his inventions.”
“On Friday, international papers caught up to the news and used the iconic Apple logo to honor Jobs,” Moos reports.
See all of the covers in the full article, “iMemorial: Steve Jobs honored on front pages, magazine covers, news & tech websites,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Daniel N.” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]