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I love the New York Times on Sunday. It comes with a magazine. It is one of my graphic-design-inspirational-cesspools for visual and written discourse. My favorite section was discontinued, True Life Tales, which was always an engaging narrative paired with an appropriate illustraion. Why it is gone, I don't know. However, NYT Sunday Magazine still comes with interesting articles, photos and illuatrations. The specialty issues are particularily fantastic, and usually relate to every design field and beyond-from architecture to fashion; travel to sustainablility. I subscribe, save, and share them.

For graphic design students, the clean fresh layouts and iconography, as well as illustraions are handy study tools-to see how the pros are doing it out there among to general American public, (outside of the design and art world, I mean). I could do without the lame advertisements-which look like fecal matter scattered among egyptian cotton bed sheets. But the magazine would probably cost $30 bucks a pop without them.

This drawing was from one of my favorite articles ever written "Guns and Yoga" by Patton Oswald. I think it's a refreshing and whimsical picture-very simple and clear as to the theme of the article. It is a lovely example of 'less is more'.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25funnyhumor.t.html

Comments

That article was pretty awesome. I probably should have done a better job of trying to get a hold of that magazine when you told me about it a while ago.

But seriously, the illustration at the top of this page rules.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10Oscars-t.html

Yep.

yeah, Patton Oswalt is hilarious! i get a lot of refreshing and whimsical images in my head when I listen to him.

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