I love New York magazine.

Smart. Pithy. Current… Great photography and excellent typography. What’s not to love?

Turns out New York magazine had a competition to design their “Best of New York” cover:

This week, we pitted five designers, ad agencies, and design firms against each other in a competition to create our cover. The entrants: former Kate Spade design director Alan Dye, the Wieden+Kennedy ad agency (Nike, Nokia, ESPN), designer Carin Goldberg (whose work includes those ubiquitous Vonnegut paperback covers), branding firm Wolff Olins (which ran the New Museum’s launch campaign), and motion-graphics outfit Gretel (which works for MTV, among many others).

Since they couldn’t pick just one, they picked two winners.

Both are excellent covers and if I had to choose just one, my vote goes here:

Gretel’s cover design above is the subscriber edition and Carin Goldberg’s design is the newsstand edition. (Be sure to check out her book covers - amazing!).

Check out some of the other featured entries and judge for yourself.

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