Hasta La Ideas

The current issue, #10, has a fun collection by a very special contributor. The bottle caps have been lovingly collected by Gail Anderson, formerly the senior art director of Rolling Stone magazine (1987-2002) and SpotCo. Gail’s editorial design at Rolling Stone was very influential on me; I was studying design in college during the early to mid-nineties, and had dreams of working at a big magazine or book publisher. Before the heydey of the internet, young and eager students such as myself devoured real and tangible examples of good design. Gail’s layouts were exciting, intricate and innovative.

(Her design of the Type Director’s Club Annual #22 from 2001 remains my favourite in that series.)

I’m honoured that Gail has contributed to UPPERCASE magazine and very excited to share with you that she’s working on another article for a future issue!

{Visit Gail’s website for more of her collections. And if you like collections, you’ll love this book.}

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I’ve been spending a fair bit of time watching Sesame Street online with Finley. It is amazing how much of the content, especially Bert & Ernie whom we watch most, relates to the magazine! Case in point: Bert’s bottle cap collection…