News from the Magosphere – Other news

Meatpaper hosts first-ever exhibition, in San Francisco
Final day today between 1pm and 5pm. After which, I suppose, it’s for the chop

Website offers hard-to-find back issues of design magazines
Some lovely stuff in there for casual browsers, such as spreads from classic back issues of AR

Fleur Cowles dies, aged 101
“I want Flair magazine to be considered my obit,” she once said. Flair was exuberant, occasionally silly, often self-indulgent, and fantastic. The fact that it near-bankrupted her husband-publisher just adds to the story. It’s also often mentioned as a magazine that people wish still existed. I have a near-complete set, as well as its 1953 annual and the suitably ridiculous recent book of reprints, which feels at times like a sample box for a very expensive paper company

Q apologises for bad timing
Jacko slamming suddenly not fashionable – though inattentive shoppers will have bought it anyway

Irk sends out the unexpected
Magazine meets mail art once again with this British ‘mini mag in a bag’

10 magazines to follow on Twitter
Connecting with the brand on a minute-by-minute basis. Bonus online links: the future of fashion magazines online, and photographers in Fashion Tale produce Spotify playlists for the readers

Economist publishes superlative obit
One of the best pieces of writing I’ve read in ages – take a bow, Ann Wroe

New Book Smell now available
Twin it with a Kindle and you might just have something

The legs behind the faces in Campaign
More of this kind of thing, please

German magazine includes one-off cocaine insert
At least her packages lined up with the column grid