What a sweet idea of content in this NYTMag-X-mas-issue; "Ordinary people, extraordinary stories."

New type cover New York Times Mag:
"In a year with no shortage of notable deaths, Ira Glass and his team from “This American Life” helped us compile readers’ stories of the ordinary people they lost. The Lives They Lived is not a greatest-hits issue. Instead, we gravitated to those lives with an untold tale."

Type illustration by Mike Lemanski

New York Times Mag also carrie a great blog; "The 6th Floor, where staff members — editors, designers, writers, photo editors and researchers — share ideas, arguments, curiosities and links."

Hugo Lindgren: editor
Arem Duplessis: Design Director
Gail Bichler: Art Director
Kathy Ryan: Director of Photography
Deputy Art Director: Caleb Bennett
Designers: Hilary Greenbaum, Sara Cywnar, and Drea Zlanabitnig