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As my faithful Twitter followers already know, Stranded magazine, the only publication made entirely by people unable to take flights home due to the volcanic ash cloud of April, is a couple of short weeks away from being on sale. It’ll be available both digitally and in print, with all proceeds to the International Rescue Committee.
Sneak previews available here… and it’s looking lovely. Keep watching the skies, people.
Scooped about my own project. How embarrassing.
But yes, tis true, many of those deadlines I cryptically tweeted while not blogging here were indeed related to this forthcoming book published by Die Gestalten, in which I was invited to write about, well, the stuff listed on the top corner of the cover:
Out in September, people.
It’s been deadline craziness over here, hence the relative silence over the last few weeks. However, I’m back, and with a table groaning full of overdue things to write about.
I’m going to work through them systematically, by which I mean unsystematically. Let’s start by calling my catchup Ten Things, that’ll give me some kind of structure. Strap yourselves in, and stop flirting with the support staff. We’re going in.
Meanwhile, apropos of nothing very much, this is the worst case of low magazine self esteem I’ve ever seen. Why bother with a logo at all?
If any of you happen to be of a South Eastern European persuasion, or perhaps fancy an exotic few days away, why not come to the glorious Bulgarian capital for Sofia Design Week?
I’ll be there speaking, and also on display (from the end of this month until mid June) will be an expanded and updated version of my Objects as Magazines exhibition.
This year’s theme is More or Less. Just about, anyway.
I mentioned before that I’ve been partaking of a little three-dimensional storytelling in Providence, RI. We emptied out the window this morning, but not before we took the information gathered and turned two blocks of a downtown street into a museum about itself.
Here’s what happened.
So I’m now officially on Twitter, @twitsplosion. Hunt me down, follow me, say hello.
I say ‘officially on Twitter’ because, well, I’ve been lurking there for a while, as well as using it for various other means.
I have my own method of dealing with new social media: I join it straight away, peer under the bonnet, poke at it with a stick, figure out what I think it does and why, calculate how much time it threatens to bleed from me, and then leave my account in a drawer somewhere to gather dust, until I’m persuaded to give it another prod. Come, join my group on Orkut, and list me on Friendster, why don’t you.
So why Tweet properly, and why now? Three reasons, really.
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Shameless, I know, but time is running out to be a founder subscriber of Stack America. Or to sign up a loved one, for that matter.
What better gift for any designer, writer, story-lover based west of the Azores? I know of at least one professional waiting room that will be supplied, from January, with some of the best in independent magazines – so why not buy a subscription for the doctor/psychiatrist/Thai massage therapist in your life?
(NB It’s also available all over the world, for those that want it – and is guaranteed to be different from Stack Original flavour, with no repeat titles between the two for at least a year. Here’s an idea: sign up to both!)
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This website focuses on developments
in the magazine industry around
the world.
It is written by
Andrew Losowsky,
a writer and editor based in the USA. He has so far edited two books about magazines, and
has ideas for
many more.
He writes about magazines for The Wall Street Journal and others, and
is co-curator of
the Colophon international magazine biennale. He also runs
Stack America.
The rest of the time, he creates experiences.
