(Above: the old spread of The Economist) Although The Economist was recently redesigned in 2018 by in house graphics experts Phil Kenny and Stephen Petch, Erik Spiekermann actually redesigned the publicationto be full color and to fit both physical and digital print spaces in 2001. Most magazines and newspapers undergo a “refresh” every seven years or…
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Lady Columbia Trope
The idea of Lady Columbia first originated in a poem from 1697 by Samuel Sewall who proposed “Columbina” to be the name for the American colonies in honor of Christopher Columbus. It wasn’t until 1775 during the American Revolution war that it gained popularity through a poem written by a black slave, Phillis Wheatley where…