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This is the year in all the various Vogue covers, overlaid.
Simple concept, fascinating results. Click here to view each of the editions as overlaid images.
(via @coverclub, Fashioncopious.com)
UPDATE: A similar visual display with Elle covers was on view at Art Basel Miami this year. Photo shot by @BeccaClaraLove.
UPDATE 2: Stylite tries it with a few other titles, with varying degrees of success.
In 2003, the art/publishing collective The Continuous Project Xeroxed and distributed the first issue of short-lived New York art magazine Avalanche from 1970. In 2005, all the pages from Avalanche‘s 13 issues were photocopied and displayed in the Chelsea College of Art and Design space in London.
And now all 13 issues have been reprinted in a limited-edition run by small press Primary Information, much in the manner of Taschen’s Arts and Architecture reprint.
Known by many as the artists’ art magazine, Avalanche lasted seven issues in a square, Avant Garde-style format, and six as a tabloid newspaper. I don’t know the magazine’s innards myself, but its name still sometimes crops up, and it seems to generate a healthy level of fanaticism in the right circles, as this reprint shows. The full facsimile set costs $150 plus shipping, which works out as not too bad per copy, if they’ve done a good printing job on it. You can also pay more (presumably quite a lot more) for a set signed by the founders.
You can read more about Avalanche‘s content here, see a few pages here and here, and download a PDF of some of its early history, as written by its two founders, here.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: all I need is a budget, a copyright negotiator and a distribution channel. There are some back issues out there that really need to be reissued.
(Thanks Mike)
Esquire UK features plasticine clothes
Very lucky with the timing, as Morph’s creator died recently and reruns have been everywhere. Lovely idea gets its rewards
Fanzines refuse to die
“What’s going on here is what academics describe as ‘slippage of the auratic’”- in other words, people like things
Gallery launches magazine for “the creative and curious”
Looks interesting/fun
Another iPhone magazine launches
Still looks crap
Music magazine goes online, then online spins off into print
Next up: TV series creates radio spin-off, radio retreats into Morse Code
British firm tried to buy Google’s Print Ad service
Good publicity either way
Inside a small independent Japanese magazine company
Their name means “two beers”, which is enough for me
Harper’s Bazaar gets bigger
Getting ready for Love
Intern drunk-dials editor, gets arrested mid rant
Editor gets even
Crisis watch
Arthur refolds, puts last issue online
Two writers refuse to release the digital rights of their work, demand cash for copies of their unedited text. “Remember: these yokels are self-proclaimed potheads, so buyer beware, etc”
UPDATE: Ralph points out: “Arthur isn’t officially folded, they just don’t have enough money to print the current issue… also, they never pay writers – the reviewers just don’t want their writing used unless printed first.”
Magazine goes up for sale on eBay
Stunt finds private buyer, magazine survives
Vanity Fair runs same cover image twice
Sorry Annie, you’ve been replaced by your own back catalogue
Tar is one of the most thoughtful, well-designed new magazines I’ve seen in a while. And yet something doesn’t feel right.
Mediabistro reports that Sotheby’s will soon be auctioning the first 53 editions of Visionaire, the extravagant, silly limited-edition objet d’art/magazine from the publishers of V and V Man. The expected sale price is £15,000-20,000, which isn’t bad for a magazine that often retails for several thousand dollars a copy, especially considering some fool apparently paid $65,000 for the same editions in December. Whether it’s worth it or not all depends on your view of art.
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