News from the Magosphere 25th August ‘09

The future of print lies outside the page
A great piece on how and why many magazines are surviving through brand extension. Even newspapers are getting into the act

Free social network for people starting magazines
Looks like an invaluable resource. About time

Fashion magazine covers from around the world
Kind of a web-based Distill for covers (its coverage of inside pages not as comprehensive or usable, sadly). It’s pretty comprehensive, but I wish the navigation wasn’t so fiddly

Who is the girl on page 194?
514 comments, essentially saying “we don’t like your standard photography policy”

10 music magazines we hope won’t die this week
Keep your fingers crossed – some of these may not last the fortnight

Beautiful paper landscapes carved out of Vogue
Take a bow, Nate Page

Another day, another mag appeal
“The Progressive is a nonprofit, legally and all-too-literally these days”

Monocle’s mini stall at Dover Street Market
All of its branded stores are rather small (the London one is 9 square metres, by the reception space of their office), but this one is the cutest. They claim to have sold 5,000 bags thus far. Not sure how much perfume

Getting that wet look
Lovely piece of cover design, plus how to turn corporate blah into watery goodness

Amazing online photography magazines
One of the few genres that’s really flourishing in these early digital days

Wired journo writes about disappearing – then disappears
$5,000 if you can find him. A touch of the Lobby Luds about it, but it’s a good gimmick for a tech-filled world – I just wonder if Evan Ratliff would have been so keen had he known that the story would be buried at the back of the mag, and the competition not even mentioned on the cover

New issue of Acido Surtido
My favourite Argentinean art-poster mag explores Public/Private

Award that man a pencil
“This is an hommage (six months in), an attempt to create cover art for every great magazine I own” (via Stack)