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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 Nov 19th ’10

November 19, 2010 in Clever ideas, Fashion, Magazine covers, New launches, technology | 1 comment

Zinesters share their NYC
If anyone knows how to make the most of a tiny budget…

Harper’s Bazaar in “we scratch advertisers’ backs” non-shocker
Surely this is the most open secret since the grassy knoll?

South African teen magazine uses creative commons licenses
But how easy do they make it for the content to be remixed?

New magazine launches for pole dancers
Simply tuck $10 into the waistband of your nearest newsagent

Playboy goes all Willy Wonka
I said Wonka

Magazero offers free magazines anywhere around the world
As in beer

Pop‘s editor in chief resigns
Since its relaunch, it’s been a great magazine, and a glorious physical object. Hope her departure doesn’t change things. Her first cover star, lest we forget, was teenage blogger Tavi Gevinson, who is now working on a magazine with Sassy founder Jane Pratt

Magazines help children buy cigarettes
Face recognition software hits a glitch

A last look at Interni‘s Russian edition
Recently closed by its publisher, there’s some great architecture and design spreads in that link to enjoy

1960s French magazine covers have a lot of cheek
Speaking of which…

BUTT towels are now on sale
The funniest thing I saw at this year’s NY Art Book Fair

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

Take a trip down Lois Lane

November 3, 2010 in Archives, Magazine covers, Personal promotion | 7 comments

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.

News from the Magosphere October 27th ’10

October 27, 2010 in Clever ideas, Fashion, Magazine covers, News round-up | 2 comments

Magazero sells work from The President
Innovative and reasonably priced magazines from one of the more creative studios out there, based in South Africa – MK Bruce/Lee, Coco/Joe and Goodwill Fernandez all worth getting. Magazero’s really shaping up into a lovely collection, thanks in part to Motto Distribution

Free downloads of U&lc back issues
Classic typography and editorial design magazine

How to get around The New Yorker‘s paywall
Because that’s what happens to paywalls

The Last Dot Dot Dot
Occasionally obtuse but mostly interesting design and thought magazine Dot Dot Dot calls it a day at twenty issues

OK Festival reviews magazines on Facebook
See the captions on the images for the reviews

Anna Wintour used to work at Penthouse Publications
And seemed to emerge with dignity intact

Microsoft’s digital magazine predictions from ten years ago
Right ideas, wrong timing. Which is as short a summary as you’ll get of Microsoft’s strategy since 2000

Five graphic design magazines from 50 years ago
They don’t make ‘em like that any more. Also check out the next post on that blog for some Swiss loveliness

Free download of McSweeney’s fake Yeti Researcher journal
Orginially part of the marvellous “envelopes” edition

Elle UK’s rough should have been the cover
Not sure how Nas Capas got hold of it, but as is often the case, the process is more remarkable than the result

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

A-Z for the SND

October 5, 2010 in Clever ideas, Colophon, Death of print, Magazine covers | 1 comment

Elsewhere, I highly recommend Jeremy’s A-Z list of mags, created for the SPND-Denver newspaper. Every mag a good ‘un (except I haven’t seen Twin, so can’t comment on that. The others I do know, and thoroughly approve of. Will somebody please start a mag beginning with X though, as EXIT just doesn’t cut the alphabetic mustard.)

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