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- <text id=94TT0073>
- <title>Jan. 24, 1994: To Our Readers</title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 24, 1994 Ice Follies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TO OUR READERS, Page 19
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> For the past 13 years, the look of this magazine--its cover
- images, its typefaces, its mixtures of text, photographs and
- illustrations--has been the responsibility of art director
- Rudy Hoglund. He has held that post longer than anyone else
- in TIME's history, and he is now leaving to take up the same
- duties at our sister publication Money.
- </p>
- <p> Rudy came to TIME in 1977, called on by art director Walter
- Bernard to help with the magazine's most comprehensive redesign
- ever. This major overhaul nettled some readers--it is a rule
- in publishing that all such changes prove controversial--but
- the new look quickly became popular and extensively imitated.
- Succeeding Walter in 1980, Rudy deftly adapted to new technology
- that allowed the magazine routinely--and in spite of breaking
- news and tight printing schedules--to use color on every page.
- Then came the microchip age, and Rudy moved his staff from the
- traditional design tools--paper, pencils and razor blades--to the computer screen. One sign of his success was the National
- Magazine Award for Excellence in Design, which he won for TIME
- in 1986.
- </p>
- <p> Rudy calls the changeover to computer design the "most rewarding"
- episode of his long tenure. "Plus I had access to the best illustrators,
- fine artists and photographers in the world." To make even better
- use of these resources, Rudy led a team that two years ago undertook
- another thorough redesign of the magazine, the results of which
- have been evident in every issue since April 20, 1992. He was
- aided in this enterprise by design director Arthur Hochstein,
- who now assumes Rudy's position.
- </p>
- <p> Arthur joined TIME in 1985 after working at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
- where he served as both the editor and the art director of that
- paper's Sunday magazine. Word people and design people are not
- supposed to get along, but Arthur seems to co-exist with himself
- quite happily. He is famous in our halls for the very good headlines
- he comes up with for covers and page layouts and the very bad
- puns ("The Vegas Notion" for our recent cover on the Nevada
- gambling mecca) that he sticks in as dummy copy.
- </p>
- <p> "Rudy taught me to favor the demands of journalism over those
- of pure design," Arthur says. "I want to continue that tradition."
- We think both Money and TIME are lucky to have art directors
- with such good eyes and clear visions.
- </p>
- <p> James R. Gaines
- </p>
- <p> Managing Editor
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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