A look at how Landscape Management’s design and focus have evolved over five decades.
1962
– Weeds and Turf debuts.
Notable: Noticing a rise in demand for contract outdoor chemical applications, Pest Control magazine (now Pest Management Professional) begins running a monthly supplement called Weeds and Turf.
1965
– We adopt a new name, Weeds Trees and Turf.
Notable: “Trees” is added to the now standalone publication’s name to reflect a shift in readership. The tagline is “Monthly magazine of methods, chemicals and equipment for vegetation maintenance and control.”
1970s
– Weeds Trees & Turf gets a groovy new logo.
Notable: Lawn Care Industry, a news-driven, tabloid-sized publication, accompanies Weeds Trees &Turf starting in 1977.
1987 –
We debut a new name: Landscape Management.
Notable: By now we focus on landscape, golf and grounds professionals. Lawn Care Industry continues as a separate publication.
1991
– A new LM logo and redesign appear in October.
Notable: The editor’s note touts: “What you’ll be reading now is a combination USA Today, Business Week and the ‘old’ Landscape Management.” Lawn Care Industry rolls into LM.
1995
– LM gets another facelift, starting in November.
Notable: The editor’s note mentions the magazine’s new tech-y feature: an email account for readers to communicate with the staff. (In case you’re curious, it was 75553.502@ compuserve.com!)
1999
– The September issue features another new logo and redesign.
Notable: LM’s focus becomes more vertical, dropping coverage of the golf market with the relaunch earlier that year of sister publication Golfdom.
2009
– LM gets a modern look.
Notable: LM’s award-winning art director, Carrie Parkhill Wallace, puts her stamp on the publication’s design with a new, sans-serif typeface for the logo, starting with the January issue. It’s still our look today.
