Hasta La Ideas

A good creative director is hard to find—and apparently even harder to keep—and two Condé Nast titles suddenly find themselves in need of new ones. Visual wizard Jody Quon has abruptly resigned from W after creatively leading just three issues (including November’s “Art Issue,” which digitally draped the very un-W Kim Kardashian in the signature red-backed Futura bold italic phrases of artist Barbara Kruger, who deserves better).

“It was a mutual decision and her position won’t be filled,” a W spokesperson told The Daily, which also notes that the depature makes design director Joseph Logan the magazine’s top creative. In April, W editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi stole Quon from New York, where she was photo director. “I see her as somebody who cares as much about the cover of a magazine as the last page of a magazine, somebody who gives as much attention to the well features as to the little things that happen in front of the book,” Tonchi said upon announcing Quon’s appointment.

Condé’s other loss in the creative director department comes as less of a shock. Scott “iPad Whisperer” Dadich, the widely lauded and heavily laureled creative director of Wired (which is also trying its hand at naked covers for November), has resigned from the magazine. He’ll now devote his full attention to position as executive director of digital-magazine development at Condé, according a recent report from WWD. Dadich began his new corporate role in July and has been commuting between Wired‘s San Francisco HQ and the New York City offices of Condé Nast ever since. Got hot gossip on who might step up to fill Dadich’s giant, tech-savvy shoes? Drop us an e-mail.

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