Fortune Taps Tim Leong as Design Director

The bubbling vat of creative talent at Wired magazine has yielded a new design director for Fortune. Tim Leong will join the Time Inc. title on August 5. He was previously director of digital design at Wired and is also a newly published author: Leong’s Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe is out today from Chronicle Books.

“He is a multi-talented guy who worked on all aspects of the Wired brand with an emphasis his last two years on the digital extensions, including all tablet editions, coordinating motion and programming, e-books, e-features, as well as working directly with the website,” wrote Fortune creative director (and fellow Wired veteran) Brandon Cavulla in an e-mail sent today. “Tim was also a part of Wired‘s conferences, working with me on motion graphics/film and overall identity.” He succeeds Emily Kehe, who left Fortune in December and is now creative director at People StyleWatch.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Aleksandra Pollner

Porcelain fortune cookies for the smashing

Aleksandra Pollner

In explaining how she came to collaborate with design shop Object on a collection of porcelain fortune cookies, Seattle-based designer Aleksandra Pollner points to three tenets: form, past experience and material. Certainly it’s form that caught our eye first when we happened upon her pieces at the New York…

Continue Reading…


Fubiz Broadcast #53

Un nouveau mix exclusif, cette fois-ci de la part du groupe français Fortune, pour ce 53ème numéro du Fubiz Broadcast. Sobrement intitulé “Dancing In The Rain”, le podcast, la playlist intégrale et son téléchargement sont disponible dans la suite.



Playlist FB53A emporter ici

  • Wendy Carlos – Country Lane (intro edit)
  • Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, Americar
  • Aufgang – Channel 7 (John Talabot’s You and Me Edit Remix)
  • Pierre Édouard – A Mon Age Déjà Fatigué (Julien 2000 Edit)
  • Poni Hoax – We Are The Bankers (Original Version)
  • Fortune – Under The Sun (Yelle DJs Remix)
  • Suzy Q – Get on Up And Do It Again
  • Babytalk – Chance
  • In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar

fortune-cover

Sélectionné par Fortune. Durée Totale : 32:49
Abonnez-vous au podcast avec le flux rss Fubiz Broadcast.

Previously on Fubiz

Fortune – Gimme

Voici “Gimme” le nouveau clip de Fortune dirigé par le créatif Arthur King. Une utilisation originale du feedback video, avec le principe de mise en abîme (les projections sur le groupe pendant le tournage). Une performance vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.



fortune2

Previously on Fubiz