“Your Sunday is about to get a lot less visually stimulating: Arem Duplessis has decided to leave his post as design director of The New York Times Magazine [muffled sobbing],” Stephanie Murg reports for MediaBistro.
“Come February,” Murg reports, “he’ll begin his new position as a creative director at Apple, where he’ll lend his creative genius to the internal marketing team.”
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“This rearranging of artistic deck chairs won’t bring us the next iPhone any faster,” Nate Ralph writes for VentureBeat, “but it will fuel the engine that controls Apple’s marketing message and creates the stellar and (occasionally not so stellar) ads that coerce us to buy shiny new hardware.”
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MacDailyNews Note: A collection of New York Times Magazine covers for which Duplessis was responsible can be found here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]