Hasta La Ideas

Thanks to a tip from a reader, we’ve learned that the New York Observer is soon to have a new design director. They’ve hired Ivylise Simones, who will step in to the new position next week, on October 18th. Simones was most recently responsible for helping People design their new iPad app, and was previously employed at the Village Voice, overseeing and designing “all the art and photo content for the alt. weekly and website” (she was responsible for one of our favorite features in the Voice, last year’s wonderfully bizarre and unexpected “The Ultimate Re-Vamping” which saw the paper’s Michael Musto as Lindsay Lohan portraying Marilyn Monroe, a parody of photos that appeared in New York. “[She] is an enthusiastic fan of the Observer and will be a great help as we continue to reinvent the paper,” said the paper’s editor, Kyle Pope. We’ve certainly enjoyed her work and look forward to seeing what she comes up with at her new stomping grounds.

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