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Not that kind of wedding

March 12, 2010 in Clever ideas, Trend | 2 comments

Der Wedding is an annual magazine about an everyday Berlin suburb. It’s also a conscious antidote to the trendy, hipster side of the city.

Just as Karen is “made out of the ordinary”, Der Wedding is, according to German magazine gurus GuteSeiten, “dedicated to the topics, events, items of everyday life and small stories that can be found right on the doorstep.”

It’s also rather lovingly designed too – images here borrowed from GuteSeiten, who have more on their site, as do Slanted.

Though I don’t speak German, it looks like a keeper.

UPDATE: GuteSeiten just gave Der Wedding their inaugural ‘mag of the year’ award at a pop-up magazine event in Berlin.

Direct distribution

December 15, 2008 in Clever ideas, Trend | No comments

No sooner do I bemoan a lack of distributor imagination than one saunters in and does something marvellous. Motto is a Swiss magazine distributor whose blog has been mentioned in posts passim; it has just opened its first physical store in Berlin (open Saturdays only, it seems), and to celebrate has a week of special magazine presentations from Mono.Kultur, Spike, Piktogram, Gagarin and Kilimanjaro, starting today (Dec 16th). Screenings, talks, the unveiling of Mono.Kultur’s new box set, and much more, all in a warmly wooden surrounding. Can’t wait to visit.

Here we have one of the futures of magazines: bespoke spaces for bespoke mags. More, please.