CMYK Redesign Issue Preview

New cover features 25 pieces of work from aspiring creative professionals

11.11.09 - San Francisco, Calif. 

Three months in the making comes the new look of CMYK magazine. 

CMYK has been working extra hard to put the finishing touches on its 45th issue. To date CMYK has published more than 4,000 pieces of creative from over 3,500 aspiring professionals across the globe, handpicked for publication by 180 of the most celebrated creative professionals in communication art. So what better way to celebrate this major milestone than with a cover-to-cover redesign.

To help with this task, CMYK hired one of its own discoveries in award-winning designer Ronald J. Cala II. Selected for publication in five different issues of CMYK, it was Cala and his unique design style and devotion to the art/science of impact that really caught the attention of CMYK as exactly what it needed to achieve its new look.

In essence, the goal was to give the magazine a more fluid, cohesive feel as a singular product, to tie it all together—cover, front, middle, back. A new tagline was adopted to better define the functionality of the magazine’s model: create, showcase, inspire. Inside will make good use of CMYK’s namesake colors throughout the magazine. The editorial—with expanded international coverage and a more personal, from-the-source voice—will flow together and stand on its own and fit into the whole scheme of the magazine. At the same time, the design on both bookends will work together to accentuate the focus on CMYK’s reason for being: the World’s Largest Showcase of New Creative Talent.

"While the redesign has taken longer than anticipated, I can assure you that the extra time and effort it took to do this right will be well worth it - I am extremely proud with the result," said Curtis Clarkson, president of CMYK. "We hope you will be as well."

CMYK 45 will be released in late November. To pre-order CMYK 45:

Email: CMY@themagstore.com

Visit http://tinyurl.com/5eq4bh

Call: 1.888.359.8588.

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