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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. And apologies about the quality of the photos in this entry.
Dodgem Logic is best described as the brain of Alan Moore as nailed onto a sheet of paper and buried at midnight until it’s ripe. And it’s (mostly) great.
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
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
Much praised elsewhere, there’s not much to add about the marvellous Kasino annual, other than its a lovely size and format, and contains all the dry wit and thoughtful quirkiness of their previous publication Kasino A4.
The story behind Time magazine’s striking front cover
They started to protect her before it hit the newsstand.
Foto8 has a great summer subscription offer
My favourite independent photojournalism mag has a neat offer on right now: buy a subscription as a gift, get one for yourself free.
A potential new direction for magazines and video
I’m not blown away by what is essentially a slow video, but I do feel that there’s something there… I just don’t know what yet.
How to successfully use Kickstarter to fund your project
Plenty of publications have been using Kickstarter to fund projects – I’ll write about that in more detail someday – but I’ve never seen as much research into it as Craig Mod has done. Essential reading for those considering crowdsourcing solutions (via Jean Snow)
In defence of Apple
Exact Editions’ Adam Hodgkin refutes some of the “Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions” stories.
Memo to prospective freelancers
Village Voice editor asks writers to grow a thicker skin (via FishbowlNY)
How to shoot a cover with an iPhone
Including some post production (via MagCulture)
Lovely work from Elle Italy. It would also, by the way, work spectacularly well on an iPad.
(via Nas Capas)
So I promised you a sight of what I made using this natty tool (now available to everyone).
It’s been deadline craziness over here, hence the relative silence over the last few weeks. However, I’m back, and with a table groaning full of overdue things to write about.
I’m going to work through them systematically, by which I mean unsystematically. Let’s start by calling my catchup Ten Things, that’ll give me some kind of structure. Strap yourselves in, and stop flirting with the support staff. We’re going in.
Meanwhile, apropos of nothing very much, this is the worst case of low magazine self esteem I’ve ever seen. Why bother with a logo at all?
This website focuses on developments
in the magazine industry around
the world.
It is written by
Andrew Losowsky,
a writer and editor based in the USA. He has so far edited two books about magazines, and
has ideas for
many more.
He writes about magazines for The Wall Street Journal and others, and
is co-curator of
the Colophon international magazine biennale. He also runs
Stack America.
The rest of the time, he creates experiences.
