Graphic designer’s library

Always learning. Always growing. A glimpse at a graphic designer’s library. Graphis Annual 84/85 The International Annual of Advertising and Editorial Graphics, Graphic Design Cookbook, Designer’s Guide to Color 5, and Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts.

You’re kidding, right? Magazine ad sales increase?

Ad pages in the monthly magazines’ January through September issues had fallen 7.4% from 2007, according to Media Industry Newsletter. The first nine months of 2007, by comparison, slipped only 1% from 2006. Before that, we’d seen a few years of gains.

Okay, so maybe it is not all bad.

The Economist… presented a crisp example of excellence in editorial, ad sales, circulation and marketing. Women’s Health continued its ascent…. Every Day With Rachael Ray even reversed the newsstand decline of first-half 2007.

Some Bright Spots in a Gloomy Year for Magazines