Motley is a new photography magazine with a limited print run (500), and an unusual premise.
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Qlix is an emerging fashion magazine with a difference: it arrives in an envelope, filled with a variety of different formats, and unexpected quirks.
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.
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
HomeSapiens is a magazine with a built-in lifespan: six magazines (five issues and one special), each themed around different encounters in people’s homes. The first issue is titled Els Chomedians; the others have equally confusingly pun-based titles. It’s far from perfect, but it is worth tracking down.
Even if what I wrote over here is true, and Ready-Media is only aiming for the lowest end of the marketplace, what about the principle of the thing? What about the potential threat to designers’ jobs from the introduction of template-based print design? What if it’s a slippery slope?
(Image by the Clippy Image Generator)
The design-related Blogotweetspheroid has been bubbling with bile at new venture Ready-Media, a creation of Satan and his minions well-known designers/typographers Roger Black, Eduado Danilo, Sam Berlow, Robb Rice and David Berlow.
I’ve not commented until now, as I’ve been trying to get my head around the controversy. Here’s how it looks to me, and you might not like it.
So I promised you a sight of what I made using this natty tool (now available to everyone).
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