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A history of Apple tablets
It’s been a long time coming. Check out the Macintosh Folio, designed by Jonathan Ive
Opium100 needs your help
Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em laugh
Ann Summers releases Cosmo tie-in range
Because diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend. Men have to make do with Loaded’s Stamina Shot
Variety releases “slanguage” glossary
What the infopike has been waiting for
Lovely-looking new design mag launches
In an edition of only 100, sadly. Fortunately, its content is also here, and features many Magtastic Blogfavourites, including Jörg Koch and Mark Kiessling
Interview with Mono.kultur‘s Kai
The new issue is unsurprisingly gorgeous
Some Magazine looks interesting
Features unusual use of the comma,
Punk zine archive
Anarchy in the PDF
Put A Egg On It #3 announced
Lifetime subscriptions are available
Bidoun runs beautiful, individualised covers
They printed 5,000 copies, and stapled to the cover of each a photograph from a Cairo fleamarket
Stack America now offers six-month subscriptions
In case you need your independent magazine fix in smaller installments. Get ready for more seasonal offers from December 1st
Geeky mag injoke ahoy with the new cover of Gym Class. I’m afraid I might well be to blame.
I’m also responsible for the cover story – the great Mr Lois agreed to a 30-minute interview, for which I scheduled an hour just in case. Two hours in, I’m late for my next meeting, and he’s only got as far as question four.
A few choice excerpts:
“[My school was] the greatest seat of learning since Alexander sat at the feet of Aristotle.”
“Harold called me up and he said, I never saw a cover like this in my life. I said, Yeah, that’s my job.”
“My covers promised a hot shit magazine. If you bought it, and you said, Dull, boring, dull, as you turned the pages, the cover would have been ludicrous.”
“If I had the backing today… I’d do a magazine that would knock you on the goddamn ass, and millions of people would [read] it.”
And just wait till you hear who played second base for Esquire‘s softball team the day that George came to play.
The man can talk, the poor shrinking violet that he is. I’ll post an audio excerpt or two up here soon, to whet appetites while we wait for Gym Class to come back from the printers. Fun.
The Volcanobook’s cover illustration is made of Icelandic ash
“The idea started when the Eyjó-ashcloud hit Europe in April 2010 for several weeks. Everyone was complaining about it and we felt the urge to turn it into something positive.” Sounds familiar. The insides compile the work of designers, illustrators, and vulcanologists. It looks great. *cough* Stranded has more pages and is cheaper */cough*
apartamento magazine has begun its own book publishing line
First title: The Story of a Mug by byggstudio
Zeit magazine – - supplement to weekly German newspaper Die Zeit – celebrates 40 years with 40 Claudias
Explanation: she’s 40 too, and also she has a new fashion line out
GmbH x The Modern Institute is a wonderful little mag store in Glasgow
Though can we finish with this whole “Mag x Something” style of branding please?
I’m looking forward to the new issue of 8
It’s a consistently terrific photojournalism mag – and I’m even more excited by this line: “If you’re an avid reader of 8, you will notice with this issue our experiments with the printed page. Next year will see us not only taking our themes further but bringing them to you each time in a new, specific, and subject-led format.” Yes, please
Newspapers are (finally) learning from magazines
Bob Newman unearths some winners
Conde Nast has some advice for iPad advertisers
Basically, “make it good, make it work, make it easy for them to buy your stuff”
“iPad whitepaper insults marketers’ intelligence”
Nxtbook’s Marcus Grimm quite reasonably points out that “your advertisers aren’t paying you for ROI tomorrow.”
Print culture from the Spanish Civil War
This isn’t a new link, but it’s new to me, and it’s fantastic. Click on “Browse the magazines” – includes fashion magazines, news magazines… all the pages including the ads. Interface is a little restrictive, but the designs still shine. You’re welcome
In 1971, MAD magazine – famed for its parodies – was itself hung from the hook by National Lampoon (whose art director at the time, Michael C Gross, went on to design the Ghostbusters logo).
Readable scans are available here. It’s a pretty scabrous view of the title, though of course MAD got the last laugh, as NL ceased publication in 1998.
Ten Things is a collection of magazines, thoughts and ephemera that have been sitting on my desk for a few months while I caught up with deadlines
Here’s a question that has been on my mind for a while: How long will paper last?
I don’t mean, “Will we still print magazines in 20 years time?”, I mean will today’s magazines degrade into unreadability, and if so, how fast? When we look at old newspapers, magazines and books today, many of them are yellowed, faded, and so brittle that they crumble in our hands. Is this the fate of all paper? By the time I’m 50, will my magazine collection be little more than musty and expensive confetti?
Eulogy is a magazine about death and life
Its website includes a category inevitably titled “Late News”. Eulogy calls itself “the world’s first magazine to celebrate life and death” – though in fact it’s not the only magazine to focus on death and people. Now online only, Obit began life as a print project
A new magazine about Lads, Men and Menswear
Previews suggest that Client has emerged from a strong diet of Fantastic Man‘s typography and Butt‘s photography
Snow Magazine Cafe – now open in Tokyo
Also teases about a new magazine from the OK Fred team
Madrid exhibition celebrates the work of Rodrigo Sánchez
He’s the designer of the covers of Metropoli, the weekend arts supplement from El Mundo in Spain. More of his lovely work here (via Quintatina)
Colors back issues released on the iPad
Oh my. Firstly, this is almost certainly the start of a trend. Secondly, Colors is a great mag for this, especially if the images are hi-res enough to be zoomable. And thirdly, I would *love* to create an archival magazine-themed partworks on the iPad. Publishers/rights holders get in touch. Speaking of which…
Ten essential iPad apps for publication designers
Covers the right bases, with a couple I didn’t know in there
UK’s September issues digested
Because August means heavy lifting
New play takes place on the sub-editor’s desk
I would hate to be the person who had to proof the program credits. You just know what kind of people will be reading them
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