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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

News from the Magosphere October 8th ’10

October 8, 2010 in Death of print, News round-up, Stranded magazine | No comments

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

News from the Magosphere August 4th 2010

August 4, 2010 in Archives, Clever ideas, ipad, Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up | 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, technology, Trend | 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, ipad, Magazine covers, News round-up | 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.

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