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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

The Last Newspaper exhibition opens at The New Museum
The catalogue is being published and handed out for free as it goes along, in a weekly newspaper format created by Latitudes. Here’s a video of the first one – at the end, they’ll all be bound together and sold as a limited-edition book. I have a piece in the second paper, out next week

Doux is a visually striking online-only mag from Argentina
An increasing number of great-looking mags are publishing exclusively on Issuu. Will they please hurry up and do a tie-in with MagCloud please?

Tabloid magazines don’t tell the truth
But how much can we trust Gawker?

Vag magazine is a web comedy about making a feminist magazine
Gags in the trailer are more about feminism than magazines. Still, worth a watch it seems

Scott Dadich, George Lois, Nate Williams, and Dublin – together at last!
Interviews from the OFFSET festival for your audible pleasure. More on that festival on the Blogsplosion soon…

Stranded is getting some lovely reviews
Here (“a zillion pages (official count)”), here (“so good I changed my tagline”), here (“una obra de 88 páginas fruto de las frustraciones y el tiempo libre de los pasajeros atrapados”), here (“it’s charming”), here (“makes me wish I’d been stranded”), here (“some truly incredible photography”), and oo, all over the place really. What do you mean you haven’t got a copy yet? All for a good cause, you know. (Digital edition to come, as soon as the lawyers have all done with their business)

Innovation presents the Newsslate prototype
The future appears to be an ever-doubling interactive publication that forces you to buy a bigger table in order to read the news

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