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I’m spending today/night/morrow helping out on Longshot, the 48-hour magazine that I like to think of Stranded‘s more famous half-brother.
The theme of this issue is Debt, and there are five simple challenges you can complete to participate here. Be quick though, the clock is ticking…
Much to catch up on, so just this once, I’ve divided this feature into categories
News
Woodwing makes its format an open standard
It’s a risky strategy, but I suspect they’re losing ground to Adobe’s InDesign plugin feature. Meantime, GQ 2.0 shows what can be done with the new Adobe system. Seems like an important step forward (though still a long way to go)
New Lineread POD magazine features a decade roundup
Also features me writing about this blog. Worth the price alone, I should think
New edition of Kilimanjaro out
Since the demise of Is/Not, it’s probably the biggest magazine currently being made. Looks like the latest one spoofs Fantastic Man
Newsweek only has six ads
Though given the way ads are booked, this is actually an indictment of how poor the previous product was, not the relaunch
Pay what you want seems to work for pre-launch niche sports mag
Also contains some great writing about football (aka soccer)
Huge augmented reality spread aimed at Nintendo 3DS users
I’m not generally a fan, but in this context AR makes a bit more sense
Dumbo Feather, Pass it On passes the feather to a new team, new design
I’ve always been fond of this Aussie mag. Great to see it evolving
Founder of Tiger Beat dies
The NYT has a slideshow of the magazine’s history, most notable for demonstrating how many cover lines can fit in a small space
A magazine goes online, signs off print with this cover
Nice sense of history
Mag love
Roundup of great Bloomberg Businessweek feature designs
That man Turley, he’s something special. And only 34 years old, too
How to make an Argentinian poster magazine
Documentary about a graphic designer’s publication, which was created as a response to his country’s financial troubles
Hand-stitched Vogue covers
Really very lovely
Stack and Magculture team up to host The Magazine Club Printout!
Rumours of a potential New York version run by me may or may not be accurate
Every cover of Time magazine
Could every magazine now do this, and keep it updated? Cheersthanksloveyoubye
The Economist to halt production for a month
I kind of want this to be true
New magazines
Dust magazine launches
Yet another fashion/art publication. This one *might* be different…
Boat magazine travels to overlooked places
The name doesn’t do them any favours, and there’s a danger of the high concept sliding into cultural tourism, but the spreads on show look great
Timbuktu is a kids’ mag on the iPad
Looks like what Anorak would make if they weren’t busy getting distribution in the USA and then going grown up in their spare time
I really like the look of Buffalo‘s design
Love how they take advantage of the large format to place a smaller mag template on the page
Australian design magazine redesigns
Looks interesting – wish its international distribution was redesigned also. Speaking of which…
Graphic design magazines of the world
…unite! Michael Bojkowski, art director of Grafik, is writing up a series of excellent summaries of others in their field. Perhaps an interesting international content exchange of sorts could be arranged?
Subscribers don’t like magazine going online only
I’m sure there are sound financial reasons for not offering the option of a refund – and instead asking subscribers to give more for the privilege – but in PR terms, it does seem to have been handled poorly
The best and worst selling covers from 2010
Kate Middleton comes out pretty badly from this
Seven years of The Nation covers
Fiddly navigation aside, this site from designer Stephen Kling contains inside stories, rejected covers and a lot of sharp political cover satire. Hit “Table of Contents” for further tales (via Unbeige)
101 Ways to read the New York Times
Well, almost. Such is the power of diversification
Seven ways magazines are using social media
Not as witless as some of the articles on this topic
Emphas.is launches in beta to crowdfund important photojournalism
Part Kickstarter, part lobbying group, part community forum, it has an amazing board of reviewers, including many top magazines represented. I also love that anyone who funds 50% of a project gets first refusal rights on publishing the result (with the photographer’s approval)
This is the best time to be in magazines!
He’s right, though it’s certainly not the best time to be a publisher
Egoïste returns
Four years since the last one, and as heavy as it ever was (thanks Kati)
If you haven’t got a correspondent…
Call a phone box. Lovely sideways piece of thinking by the SZ magazine
JPG brings in a famous guest curator
Great concept that fits the mag well. Unfortunately, the online preview of the issue only features one photo from the set he chose
Archive magazines online alongside yearbooks, newsreels and music
This kind of contextual linking is only going to get bigger. Can’t wait
Test drive a car on a print ad
Via a natty iPhone app and some smart thinking
How the Businessweek cloud cover came about
Always assuming it wasn’t a conceptual copy of this Italian newspaper supplement cover from January. Sidenote: I’m really enjoying Richard’s tumblrlog experiments
New York is placing archives and unused cover concepts on Flickr
There’s a lot to enjoy right there – you can also follow art director Chris Dixon on Twitter
What happened to the staff after the newspaper closed
They should illustrate and publish their survey via The Newspaper Club, for irony kicks
Videogame magazine nostalgia
Cos it’s not just about the pixels
A Brit and a woman created and nurtured Newsweek. Now a British-born woman is moving it forward, pinning its hopes on a high-profile, print-digital merger. Can it survive – and is it any good?
I’m dividing this into two pieces, because I think that, in order to better judge and understand the magazine, it would be helpful first to understand something of the history and nature of American news weeklies, and their previous digital forays.
News magazines are the big news themselves today, with the new NYT magazine launching yesterday (I live tweeted my first impressions of each page on Sunday morning) and, entirely coincidentally I’m sure, the first issue of Tina Brown’s combined Newsweek/Daily Beast magazine appearing on newsstands today.
I’ll post more on both those two shortly, but first I’d like to highlight a really interesting-sounding creation by Chimurenga, which is a particularly creative pan-African magazine based in Cape Town that I’ve been a fan of since their excellent graphic novel issue.
The next Chimurenga project, working in collaboration with Nigeria’s Cassava Republic Press and Kenya’s Kwani?, is “a once-off, one-day-only edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in time to re-imagine the present.”
The new creation promises to be “a multi-section broadsheet with news, long-form journalism, comics, sport, art etc. and 100-page books magazine to be released in September 2011, in numerous African cities. Back-dated to the week May 18-24 2008, it’s situated during the first week of the so-called xenophobic violence in South Africa, two years ago – but it focuses outward, covering the events, scenes and situations around the world during this period.”
And it’ll be distributed by newspaper sellers across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Southern Africa. You can read more about the concept on their hand-drawn dummy newspaper pages here.
Sounds fantastic – and they want your help. They want to turn the classifieds of their paper into a literary platform of its own. Learn how to participate here.
The medium of newsprint combined with deep thought and literary experimentation, with a more overtly political slant than the San Francisco Panorama, created and distributed in a region where newspapers remain the primary source of information? Can’t wait to see how this one turns out.
Architecture has long been a popular subject of alternative magazines. Clip Stamp Fold covered the architecture zine culture of the 1960s and 1970s, and now Archi-zines is trying to do the same for the present day, curated by Elias Redstone.
It’s currently a small list, but growing quickly – sadly no RSS feed right now, but it’s well worth checking back regularly to follow this evergreen genre of alternative urban thought through magazines.
My first review of this year is a somewhat unusual one in that it’s of two issues of a magazine that aren’t actually available to buy, as they had already sold out when I received them.
It’s also the first time that I’ve been sent a magazine in a home-made envelope, the reverse side of which contained the face of its creator on an old gig poster. So it was that Wayne Alan Brenner recently sent me the first two issues of his virtuoso creation, Minerva’s Wreck. And they’re tremendous.
