Michele Outland has spent her career at some really beautiful magazines. Beautiful ... because she made them that way. Her resume includes stops at Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, Domino, Nylon, and Bon Appétit, as well as the magazine she created and launched with her good friend, Fiorella Valdesolo: Gather Journal.

Gather, which only published 13 issues, made a powerful impact on the magazine business. In its five-year run, it won a James Beard Award for visual storytelling, an Art Director’s Club Award, and twenty medals from the Society of Publication Designers, including being named “Brand of the Year” in 2015.

Under her leadership, Bon Appétit won the ASME National Magazine Award for Design along with a slew of SPD awards.

We talked to Michele about the power of internships, her Korean mother’s influence on the way she thinks about food, about how to start a magazine in a post-print world—and when we can expect the return of Gather Journal, the strong female role models who shaped her career, and, of course, pizza.To read the full transcript and view the portfolio, visit Print Is Dead. (Long Live Print!).

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Magazines: The original influencers.

Print Is Dead. (Long Live Print!) is a podcast about magazines and the people who made — and make them. In this series, we talk to the legendary designers, editors, writers, publishers, photographers, illustrators, photo editors, and more, who conceived and produced the publications that have dominated our conversations and covered our desks and coffee tables for decades. And many who still do.

We go deep — beyond the heds & deks, captions, sidebars, pull quotes, and factoids — into the lives and careers of this astonishingly talented group of creators.

If you’re in the magazine business — if you’re in ANY business focused on content creation — this podcast is for you. We hope you’ll join us.

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Patrick Mitchell, creator & host, is the principal and creative director at MO.D, an award-winning content design and strategy practice offering bespoke design, consulting, and turnkey solutions for media brands. He is the former creative director at Fast Company (one of the most successful media launches in history), O, The Oprah Magazine, Nylon, and Inc. Winner of two National Magazine Awards as well as SPD’s Magazine of the Year.

Debra Bishop, contributing cohost, is the cofounding art director and visual lead of The New York Times for Kids. She worked with the legendary Fred Woodward at Rolling Stone, designing special issues. She has since lead several redesigns including, More, Whole Living, and Parents. In her 12 years at MSLO, Bishop led teams that launched Martha by Mail, Martha Stewart Baby, Martha Stewart Kids, and Blueprint. Martha Stewart Kids was awarded the prestigous ASME National Magazine Award for Design. Kids and Blueprint were both awarded Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD).

Print Is Dead. (Long Live Print!)

Episode 03: Michele Outland, Designer, Bon Appétit, Gather Journal, Nylon, More

Magazines: The original influencers.

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