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News from the Magosphere August 4th 2010

August 4, 2010 in Archives, Clever ideas, Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up, ipad | No comments

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

News from the Magosphere July 30th 2010

July 30, 2010 in Clever ideas, Death of print, Magazine covers, News round-up, Trend, technology | No comments

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)

News from the Magosphere 19th April ’10

April 19, 2010 in Buzzwords, Clever ideas, Magazine covers, News round-up, ipad | No comments

As mentioned elsewhere, things have been quiet here due to unforeseen volcanic inconvenience, and entirely foreseen wedding exuberance. I’m now in Dublin, waiting, waiting for the air to clear. Meantime, some catch up.

New York magazine’s Approval Matrix becomes TV show
More signs that visual media are getting desperate for ideas. Next up: Time Out Theater Listings: The Movie!, and a Radiohead album based on Loot

ProPublica/NYT magazine investigations tie-in wins another award
Not ‘The Future Of Journalism’, but one of them

Jeremy’s guest-posting at It’s Nice That
He’s going to share five magazines that “push the boundaries of what a magazine can be”. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen

A peek inside the new Businessweek
If nothing else, Bloomberg knows how to build up expectations

World’s biggest-circulation magazine gets Latino spinoff
Unless you count Watchtower, that is

Technology as introduced by PopSci magazine
Love that first-ever colour facsimile cover – today it’d probably be done by Esquire

The Lady puts Tracy Emin on the cover
One of those stories I had to check the date of first, to make sure it wasn’t April 1st

BBC looking for magazine partner
Partnerships to help bring more balance to the industry

Yahoo! produces style guide
Containing, one assumes, more online savvy than the AP guide

NYT’s Sunday magazine from 1910
Every week, another century-old story. Lovely contextualization from the archives

I rather like this cover
It’s not new, but it certainly grabs you. I just found it on the ever-superlative Nas Capas

HyPad links

The Six iPad Principles of Mag+
Still lauded as the best interface so far

A mag app roundup
This week’s hits and misses from Exact Editions

News from the Magosphere Feb 12th ’10

February 12, 2010 in Clever ideas, New launches, News round-up, Trend, USA | 1 comment

Grafik has a new cover concept
Some nice possibilities with this one

Renting an apartment for your Playboy collection
Confessions of a female centerfold obsessive

Jeremy redesigns FHM UK
Gives it a much more clearly delineated structure. He also kindly gives Magtastic Blogsplosion a shout out here, where he says that most of his links come from Twitter these days. Should I start tweeting?

Gute Seiten has a lovely round up of small, new magazines
Palimpsest in particular sounds intriguing

How W art director matches headlines to photography
I think Klaus/Haus is my favourite. It’s not much more than you could get from just looking at the magazine, but a useful primer for graphic design students. Nicely shot, too

Unusual guidebook/magazine hybrid launches
Looks intriguing, though am not sure who its audience will be

Melbourne e-magazine Three Thousand opens up a store
Includes rare zines and magazines

Becky Smith’s top five mags of all time
Classics are thus for a reason

In-jokes in magazine design part 351
What’s important is that it still has relevance and power, whether you get the reference or not. Don’t think Paste passes that test

New online design magazine launches issue zero
Editorial method includes open monthly meetings in NYC to determine content. Disclosure: I’m an advisor on the project. Many are the plans and improvements to come

iPad overexcitement roundup

Google may be working on a bigger tablet
Or might just be employing animators to get a cheap headline. Slightly confused by the line “Several other consumer electronics companies, including HP, are thought to be working on their own tablet-style computers.” The article is dated 2nd Feb – nearly a month after the same newspaper already reported on the HP Slate

Interview the latest to unveil prototype iPad video
It looks quite nice, though doesn’t explain how the user knows when something is part of a spread or a single page

iPad UI conventions
How Apple seems to think we might design for it

Almost live from a German airport newsstand

February 7, 2010 in Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up | 1 comment

Fewer updates this week as I’m out of town giving a talk here. However, one of the great things about European layovers in unexpected locations is the ability to kill time in a nearby Relay.

As I flew Lufthansa, I got a stop in Frankfurt. There were three Relays within about 500 feet of each other, all of which had a remarkable selection of magazines. It was good to see independents such as Kaiserin and S(nsfw) sitting alongside the usual fare. Here’s what else I spotted, and snapped with my iPhone:

Business magazine Brand Eins continues to stand out for its beautiful simplicity.

Sleek is doing something lovely with the page edges in their latest issue, themed ‘Food’. You can download it for free if you register here.

Swiss design mag idPure is always worth looking at. They’ve had a redesign of their cover since I last saw it. I like it a lot.

The first issue of Business Punk, the new G+J magazine that tries to meld economics and ladmags, was there. Lots of bright colours and shouty design about the most unexpected topics inside. However, I wasn’t able to find its stablemate, leaving me asking ‘Where’s the Beef?’

At least two charities have their own newsstand titles, both cleanly designed and filled with more content than just money-raising fayre.

And finally, a piece of honest explanation for the store’s top shelf. It was 6am, I was surrounded by wide-eyed people who, like me, had taken overnight flights, and yet I was in a happy place. Yes, I am a cheap date.

News from the Magosphere, 25th January ’10

January 25, 2010 in Clever ideas, Death of print, Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up, Trend, technology | No comments

Spin starts licensing their archive content
The lesson for magazines here is never, ever throw anything away. Meanwhile…

Conde Nast suddenly realises that brands have value beyond print
“Guys! I’ve got a brilliant idea!”

New magazine launches for mega-rich athletes
As long as Jamie Redknapp isn’t on the editorial board

Girls Like Us is back!
Brilliantly named, trendy Euro-lesbian mag returns with a smart new look

Paste survives with unusual content-sharing deal
We might start to see a lot more of this kind of thing. (Previously)

Esquire‘s moving cover
It’s a simple trick, but it still kinda freaks me out

Creative Review offers subscribers free tomatoes and a planter
Includes prize for the best tomatoes (see comments). Part of their rather fabulous series experimenting with biodegradable packaging

PDF magazine gets David Foster Wallace exclusive
Requires free subscription, but it’s well worth the hassle – and it’s a lovely mag anyway. Also still the only PDF mag I know that’s designed to be printed out on normal printer paper before reading

Limited-edition Emigre prints for sale
Really pretty combinations of previous front pages. Shame they’re so expensive

New Feltron Report prepares to launch
Every year, Nicholas Felton releases his limited edition, infographically gorgeous Annual Report. This year’s is twice the price of last year’s – and is a 16-page, four-colour extravaganza. Almost guaranteed to be worth it

News from the Magosphere Dec 29th ’09

December 29, 2009 in News round-up, Trend, technology | No comments

Cartoonist annotates each week’s Guardian Weekender magazine
They should commission him to do it for real one week

Tablets can’t save magazines
The backlash has already begun. And they both make good points. Right now, the industry is focused on making payment possible. But will enough readers want to do so? (via Bob Newman)

Magazine Magazine to launch
Except it already exists

Archive of underground classic International Times available online
Not new, but I finally caught up with it. Contains some fantastic experiments with design on newsprint – future Newspaper Clubbers take note. Speaking of underground magazines…

“That’s what the world needs now – love, sweet love, and a good underground magazine”
Cult hero and graphic novel writer Alan Moore launches his own print magazine, Dodgem Logic. Click around the website, there’s plenty of surprises tucked away in the corners

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