Colophon is now Twittering!
Follow us all the way to Luxembourg – and then receive updates on talks and events during the festival. Also some early spreads from our forthcoming book are now viewable (click on the small images)
Docu recalls the love behind legendary New Orleans independent mag
I can’t imagine anything more opposite to The September Issue
Designer returns to his pet project: Diamante magazine
John describes it as “printed using letterpress, screen-print, lithography, die-cut, foil-block, a range of materials, inks and whatever I feel appropriate at the time.” He’s creating 6 issues a year, printing only 300 of each issue and selling them for (I think) £12 each. You can see some pics of the lovely-looking first edition here (PDF). A handful of subscriptions remain – email him for more information
Another online photography magazine launches
A great start, too. Following on from 1000 Words, and others, it seems that love of great photography is leading to some of the most interesting online magazines so far
Prada asks fashion editors to decorate their windows
Who’s doing product placement now?
Digimag Spektacle cryptically returns
It’s not a real suburban village, I promise. Somewhere I have their first edition from 2001, that came on a mini CD-Rom. They’re still experimenting with the strange combination of fashion and QR codes, now with iPhone reader. I can just never be bothered to take the picture and do the searching
Great magazine covers, daily
Not sure who we have to thank, but thanks (and thanks René for the heads-up)
Crisis roundup
Craft closes
Make survives. The spin-offs keep on spinning away
Guardian prints a publishers’ report card
I know things are bad, but there’s no need for those unfunny puns
