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News of the Magosphere January 14th ’11

January 14, 2011 in ipad, Magazine covers, News round-up, technology | 1 comment

The Stranger nails it again with a great cover
Clever reuse of the political graphic of the moment

Prisoners write letters to magazines
Great story on how the art of letter writing isn’t dead

Hearst tries to apply analytics to magazine distribution
Somewhat shocking it isn’t already an industry standard

The best glossy covers of 2010
One more list, this time against blatant Photoshoppery

How to copy and paste DRM’d publications
Can we now just allow copy and paste across the board?

iPad readers don’t read at the same times as other readers
Unsurprisingly for a $500 piece of kit, they seem to prefer doing it at home – which has implications for what they’ll buy

Online interiors magazines thriving
Some interesting titles there

Light-up cereal boxes from CES
Next step, an issue of Esquire probably

Magazines that warped young minds
These looked like fun

Top publishers prepare to launch their own app store
Much better than making their own tablet, which is what they said the might do

News from the Magosphere January 2nd ’11

January 2, 2011 in Archives, Fashion, ipad, News round-up | 3 comments

An excellent roundup of where we are, iPad-wise
New tablets – and a new iPad – this year might shake things up again

A list of American magazine distributors
One of those lists that you didn’t know you didn’t have before. Can we expand it internationally in the comments section?

Nike makes shoes out of old magazines
But will they do it out of magazines of my choice? Then we’ll talk

What readers want in their iPad magazine ads
Until someone makes something else they want

UK’s Channel 4 launches anti-fashion mag game
Contains fake versions of Photoshop tools to make its point, along with thinly disguised spoofs of Vogue, Heat, Nuts, Glamour and Men’s Health. It’s a smart idea – however, playing it simply feels too much like work. Remember kids: Photoshop isn’t fun

The Last Newspaper exhibition catalog is now available
Get them while they last (disclosure: I advised them on it, and wrote a couple of pieces). Full content listing here

Cardiff University’s Mapping the Magazine 3 conference calls for papers
Should be a fascinating event

Chinese literary magazine gets closed down after one issue
“If things continue like this, China will only be known for tea and pandas”

Texts from a secret magazine made by children in the Terezín ghetto
Published weekly for two years, until most of them were sent to Auschwitz. A documentary is apparently in the works; Wikipedia has more

Review of 2010: Onwards, upwards

December 19, 2010 in Archives, Buzzwords, Clever ideas, Death of print, Fashion, ipad, Magazine covers, Opinion, Personal promotion, Review, stack, Stranded magazine, Trend | 3 comments

It’s been a fascinating year for magazines.

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News from the Magosphere Dec 9th 2010

December 9, 2010 in Clever ideas, Fashion, ipad, Magazine covers, News round-up, technology | 1 comment

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…

News from the Magosphere 11th Nov ’10

November 11, 2010 in Archives, Clever ideas, ipad, Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up, stack | No comments

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

News from the Magosphere 15th October ’10

October 15, 2010 in Archives, Clever ideas, Death of print, ipad, Magazine covers, News round-up, Stranded magazine | 1 comment

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

Stranded is digital!

October 8, 2010 in Buzzwords, Clever ideas, ipad, Stranded magazine, technology | No comments

Stranded is now digital! Available exclusively via the Zinio platform alongside side projects with similar budgets such as Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Esquire and The Economist, it’s a clean $5, all of which goes to the International Rescue Committee.

Zinio’s reader is available on iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Game & Watch, all LG front-load washing machines (not the 89T washer-dryer) and ZX Spectrum.

And you can buy the Zinio edition of Stranded here.

For the story behind Stranded, click here.

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