News from the Magosphere 22nd July ‘09

And plenty of it, yet again. At this rate, I might have to start Tweeting just to keep up…

Here’s the ones they didn’t use
Eye shows off their cover rejects. Unusually in this kind of thing, I actually think the one they chose is my favourite

New women’s magazine turns to online at the last minute
Was about to go to print, when economic reality stopped the presses. So the founder chose to put the content of Vain on a website – which asks all kinds of questions about creating content appropriate for its medium. She’s still hoping a publisher will return her vision to print by the autumn

Interview gets new ed-in-chief
Evanly Schindler seems a safe pair of hands if he can commit enough time to the job outside of his own baby, Tar. Not sure what he means by “updating the mag for an era of social networking and viral communication”, but it certainly needs a stronger editorial reason to exist

Redesigning the Newsweek redesign
Did a more complete job than the original. Followed up with this post

Ad revenue chart for business magazines
Slope looks increasingly slippery (via Private Fraser)

Top twenty magazine websites rated
Very interesting analysis that rates content, interactivity, layout, easy of use, advertiser presence and audience size. Would anyone like to tag an image of each webpage with these comments?

Top UK magazines and their Twitter followers – live
Interesting to see how many they follow as well

Peeping Tom promotes up-coming artists in Berlin
Interesting-looking magazine based around the work of young artists, created through a kind of commissioning chain letter. I hope the connections are made clear in the issue; I haven’t seen it yet, but it might be a more interesting read if they added in places in the city as well – making it a fascinating document of where and when in that moment, as well as a showcase of who and what

I LOVE YOU – Their printed mag
Increasingly the portfolio of choice, German photographer and art director team up to launch their own fashion tabloid. Images available at Christiane Bördner’s site, under ‘Magazines’, then click the first image. Looks very nice indeed; meanwhile, it seems that tabloid is the format of the future

Travel + Leisure brands Canadian airport store
Makes sense. CNN already has several branded newsstands in airports across the US

MagNation has some interesting new titles up
They even ship internationally now, too

Rubbish magazine reveals the identity of their Harry Poeter
I wonder if he writes magical realism

Write your own celebrity interview
Ladymags in outsourcing journalism to algorithm shocker

Print your own Free Doodles zine
Very cutely done

Using a car to create a typeface
The end product is more delicate than you might expect

Photoshop magnets add humour to fridge photos
Think Geek triumphs again. Where do they get those wonderful toys?