PRINT Magazine - About Us

PRINT is a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design. Covering a field as broad as communication itself, PRINT documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle: the good (how New York’s public-school libraries are being reinvented through bold graphics), the bad (how Tylenol flubbed its disastrous ad campaign for suspicious hipsters), and the ugly (how Russia relies on Soviet symbolism to promote sausage and real estate).

PRINT is a general-interest magazine, engagingly written by cultural reporters and critics who look at design in its social, political, and historical contexts. From newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics, from corporate branding to indie-rock posters, from exhibitions to cars to monuments, PRINT shows its audience of designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, educators, students, and enthusiasts of popular culture why our world looks the way it looks, and why the way it looks matters. PRINT’s design matters too: In 2005 it unveiled a sweeping, cohesive redesign that gracefully embodies its sharp, elegant analysis and reporting.

PRINT is a three-time winner of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Award for General Excellence (Circulation Under 100,000), most recently in 2005. Here’s what ASME said about PRINT: “With a vitality that bursts off its pages, PRINT presents a broad spectrum of topics demonstrating the significance of design and visual communication in our world. From its controversial Sex Issue, with its analysis of the effects of explicit sexual imagery, to the election-coverage issue, PRINT expands our understanding of how design influences everything.”

Since 1940, PRINT has been dedicated to tracking new creative and technological advances in visual communications, and to presenting these developments to our readers in a thoughtful, energetic, visually striking magazine.

OUR STAFF

Editorial

Joyce Rutter Kaye is PRINT’s editor-in-chief, a position she has held since 2003. During her tenure at PRINT, the magazine has been named a finalist for three National Magazine Awards, winning the “Ellie” for General Excellence in 2005. Before joining the magazine as managing editor in 1998, Kaye was managing editor of U&lc, a reporter for Crain’s Advertising Age/Creativity, and a freelance writer covering design and consumer culture. Kaye holds a B.S. degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Emily Gordon, managing editor, has worked at numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Nation, Newsday, PEN America, and Legal Affairs. A journalist and critic since 1993, she has written about books, culture, and technology for publications such as The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and The Washington Post Book World. She received her MFA in poetry from New York University.

Caitlin Dover, senior editor, has written about design, fine art and culture for nearly a decade, and has also long worked as an editorial illustrator. Her articles have appeared in PRINT and in Metropolis, among other magazines, and she has produced two graphic design compendiums. As an illustrator, she has contributed to a variety of publications, including The Nation and The New York Times. For PRINT, she writes and edits features and department articles.

James Gaddy, associate editor, contributes and edits articles and oversees such features as the New Visual Artists Review, as well as managing PRINT’s website content. His articles have appeared in I.D., The New York Times, and Boston magazine. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University.

Claire Lui, assistant editor, has written numerous articles about history, books, and culture (both low- and highbrow) for magazines including Print, American Heritage, and Entertainment Weekly. She holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University.

Martin Fox, editor-at-large, was editor of PRINT for 40 years, from 1963 until 2003. He is still with the magazine in the capacity of editor at large and devotes the rest of the time to his early interest, playwriting.

Art

Kristina DiMatteo joined PRINT’s team as art director in 2006. Formerly, DiMatteo was a designer at The New York Times Magazine, where her direction of special issues and features have been recognized with numerous SPD gold and silver medals and played an integral role in the publication’s nomination for the Society of Publication Designers’ 2006 Magazine of the Year award. DiMatteo’s past design efforts range from creating promotions for clients while at Time Inc. Custom Publishing, to identities and packaging while working at a New York graphic design studio.

Lindsay Ballant, associate art director, comes to PRINT from Paper magazine, where she worked with Peter Buchanan-Smith on the magazine’s redesign. In addition, she has worked on projects for Chronicle Books and Bedroom Community Records. Her work has received merit from Communication Arts and the Type Director’s Club, and has been exhibited at Reena Spaulings, Instigator, and Visual Arts Galleries. Most recently, she was selected as STEP magazine’s Emerging Talent of 2006. She is a 2004 graduate with distinction from the School of Visual Arts.