Bloomberg Businessweek named Design Studio of the Year

The monthly magazine and blog Creative Review — which covers advertising, design and visual culture — has selected Bloomberg Businessweek’s design team as its Design Studio of the Year.

It writes, “Under creative director Richard Turley, (not forgetting editor Josh  Tyrangiel) Bloomberg Businessweek has trounced its rivals with a verve  and energy that recalls the heyday of the printed magazine.

“Set-piece editions in which the decks are cleared for total  devotion to one topic have become a speciality of the magazine – its  valedictory Steve Jobs issue being particularly successful. In our June 2012 issue our columnist Jeremy Leslie revealed the working process of the Bloomberg Businessweek team as it put together the issue (images above, you can read his piece here).

“Last November, the team did it again with its Election Issue, shown here and chosen as one of our Best in Book winners for The Annual.

“The Election issue takes as its starting point a famous speech by Ronald Reagan in which he asked the American people whether they felt better or worse off than they had been four years ago and applies that test to Obama’s period in office.

“It opens with a double-page, black and white shot of the President’s inauguration on January 29, 2009 overlaid with facts about the state of the nation at that point.”

Read more here.