Apparently those Gawker kids aren't always lurching from one media party to the next in a drunken stupor. (As they so often like to claim.) Yesterday's Do Look Back is a great item about Aperture Magazine's visit to Village Voice photo critic Vince Aletti's huge magazine collection. They have a short excerpt from the magazine article (which is not online, grr.) And Gawker writes:

Recent talk of magazines going through redesigns... or top-down overhauls (see Radar) and fond looks back at brilliant magazine art of the past all point to dissatisfaction with the way magazines look right now. The point is driven home even more by the death of groundbreaking Harper's Bazaar and Show art director Henry Wolf last month.

Agree! Researching my brief item about Henry Wolf's death reminded me of how cool magazines used to be. (And not stinky either! Ah, the days before scent strips.)