Why fashion struggles with race
A really good piece on the colour barrier faced by fashion editorials and the catwalk – and why societally the “paint chip” theory doesn’t work

Eye gets a preview of Port
Review here when I can get my hands on it

Slate writer hates his iPad
The backlash is strong with this one

How a publisher is dealing with the OnePass/Apple subscription situation
Fascinating reading. The key for the big players seems to be “be everywhere, but hope Android on tablets gets big enough to force Apple to back down”

Marie Claire Brazil goes 3D
3D fashion apparently also featured in new mag Archetype X (about which I can find nothing at all except for descriptions of this shoot – does it even exist?)

A round up of books about zines / comic books / small magazines
Contains short summaries of a few things worth knowing about

i-jusi exhibition hits London next month
Well worth checking out their back issues at that. Speaking of which…

Mute offers complete set for 200 pounds
Intelligent mag that did some interesting design things in the late 90s (disclosure: I interviewed Cory Doctrow for them once, eight years ago)

Indiana University student magazine actually well designed
Text’s a bit ropey, but it sure is purrty

People create their own Top 10 magazines
No, don’t ask – I wouldn’t know where to begin

A fascinating-looking Chinese magazine blogger
Sadly, I suspect something is lost in the Google Translation

How a magazine page is designed
Video of putting together a page for the Royal Academy magazine, designed by Studio8. ‘Light Fantastic’ was a much better headline, I reckon (via MagCulture)

Wallpaper* uses clever ink for The Secret Elite edition
Brilliant. But why subscribers only? (and did they subconsciously copy Wire for the main image?)

Rolling Stone gives away magazines with t-shirts
It’s all about the ad numbers. Start of a trend?

London Magtastic on 12th July
Gathering of independent, London-focused magazines; nothing to do with me

Archives don’t need to pay contributors again
Potentially big ruling in the USA. Thank goodness for common sense

Fashion-ation reads fashion magazines
So you don’t have to