News from the Magosphere Dec 9th 2010

Just completed a move, plus plenty going on here – so there’s a lot to catch up on. Deep breath now…

Which fonts do fashion magazine logos use?
Some actually useful information among the speculation

Longform publishes its Best of 2010 lists
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Instapapers

Jeff Bridges redraws Esquire UK’s logo and masthead
Love the photo. Reminds me of this Vogue cover

Popular Mechanics, Esquire and Amazon: together at last
Or should that read “at least”?

Fray wants you to touch their junk
Good deal for back issues of this intelligent mag of The Moth/This American Life-esque tales edited by the co-founder of JPG

Foto8 has a great pre-Christmas offer on
Dear Santa, I’d like 25% off and an extra issue of probably the very best photojournalism mag out there, thanks

Japanese PDF photography magazine supplies soundtrack for iPad reading
They seem to go together nicely

Nolayout creates digital editions for independent publishers
Multimedia it ain’t, but straightforward JPEGs means no compatibility problems. Lovely simple clean interface too

Nieves brings zines to the iPhad
Not quite how Xerox intended, but you can’t fault the price or accessibility. While we’re on the subject…

Article has just started a blog about free magazines
Excellent stuff on there so far. Expect to see some of these appearing in envelopes of Stack America subscribers over the next year

New McSweeney’s arrives inside a head
It’s all about the presentation. *Love* the 40-inch scroll of fortunes

Fire & Knives is preparing a day of presentations
Sounds delicious

Who cares about age? V does
Fashion mag does an “age is beautiful” special, apparently Photoshops its cover star to remove wrinkles

Bonnier starts to release iPad-only mini publications
Jean’s new blog has the story – as it seems to have most stories lately. Follow his constantly excellent blogging taking place over at The Magaziner

Chrome’s Web Store contains some iPhone/iPad apps
The code’s rewritten, but the functionality is identical. If you’re looking for something mag-themed, you may want to start here. All of which suggests that the next Android/Chrome OS updates will be interesting. In summary: The Great Conjunction is getting closer

Marie Claire introduces video-heavy direction for its iPad app
Hot Studio is brought in to bring some pizzazz to the mag within Zinio’s distribution channel. And in case you were wondering why there haven’t been many iPad mag reviews on here yet, that’s because there are *things* happening behind the scenes. Big news afoot…