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Oh, you do graphic design? So does my iPhone.
Next up: the InDesign plugin that turns photos and text into layout, and the Word macro that writes SEO-friendly punning headlines. And then in ten years’ time, people will be taken out of the equation altogether, and it’ll just be iPhones quietly talking to each other.
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Sorry Annie, you’ve been replaced by your own back catalogue
After a big PR push and a long delay, PMc, the first magazine designed only for the iPhone, is now available for 99c in the iTunes store. Rather than a brand extension of an existing title, instead it’s a brand-new fashion and style magazine from photographer Patrick McMullan. A brave new world or a missed opportunity?
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Mygazines starts to reveal its monetising strategy
No news on if the lawyers tracked them down. Meanwhile on the legal side of the fence…
Publishers to give away 50 million digital magazines
Zinio are behind this; a rather smart way for them to get the lead over their rivals, but will it get many readers? Speaking of digital, did “iPhone magazine” PMc ever launch? It’s fashion week, but it isn’t in the iTunes app store as promised yet…
Yet another version of that Obama cover
How come almost all the parodies are funnier than the original?
Wired gives a play-by-play on how they edit an article
I’ve suffered at the hands of their editors before
ITV becomes digital newsagent
That’s the leading UK commercial TV broadcaster, for non-Britishers. They also own Friends Reunited, which is what nostalgic stalkers in England used to use before Facebook; this diginewsstand adds one more random bullet to their scattergun web offering
Yet another new luxury fashion supplement
Washington Post arrives late to the party, hunts around for any uneaten vol au vents
Taschen publishes entire reprint of Arts and Architecture
Now there’s a trend that could get interesting/expensive. They should open up the choice of their next reprint to the audience (I’d probably vote for Nest)
Life magazine resurfaces yet again, as a social photo archive website
If we’ve seen less than 3% of what they have, there are going to be some amazing unseen images in there. I just wish they’d donate them to the nation / Library of Congress on a similar non-commercial clause that NASA uses. Set the archive free!
Main distributor of foreign magazines in Japan goes bust
Via Jean Snow
Esquire e-cover hacked. To death
My review of the full anniversary issue coming soon
Capricious #8 is unbound
Each spread is kept loose, so it can go up on your wall. Reminds me of Rakete, the rather fine poster magazine produced by students in Düsseldorf
BBC to launch Lonely Planet magazine
Grauniad claims it will compete with Conde Nast Traveller and Sunday Times Travel. Surely it’s more likely to have Wanderlust and similar in its sights?
Esquire US produces handwritten cover lines
Now plagiarising itself
New luxury mag for iPhone
Not a first per se but having daily refreshed content in a bimonthly you buy on iTunes sounds intriguingly confusing. The price point sends mixed signals too
Is this the launch of the revamped Baron/O’Brien Interview?
The Kate Moss/Catwoman cover line suggests so. I wonder how those half-tones will come out in the printing? UPDATE: Yep, with increased distribution too
BAD IDEA opens up the Butcher’s Shop
Transparency and a lesson in good editing; mouseover for detailed comments. Part of their new Writer’s Lab
(Yet another) new contemporary arts magazine “takes flight”
I like the look of its selection, how it gives images space, and the playfulness of some of the giant typography. Will need good printing to make it all stand out. Not sure why, but it feels similar to the less-inspiring-but-also-Aussie Monument. Maybe it’s the architecture spread
