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News from the Magosphere Sept 24th ’09

September 24, 2009 in Fashion, Magazine covers, New launches, News round-up, Opinion, technology | No comments

Diesel invites top fashion magazines to make t-shirts
Unfortunately, they were asked simply to choose an old cover, so the results aren’t special

Life back issues now available on Google
They did it before for the images – now the actual pages from 1936-1972, including the ads, are online. It’s ok for historical research, they’ve embedded links into each contents page, and I like the “places mentioned in this magazine” map, but otherwise Google’s book viewer isn’t suited to magazines at all. The zoom isn’t good enough, especially when you switch to view spreads. A much better interface is needed if they’re going to make a habit of this

Elephant about to enter the room
Looks very good, as we’ve come to expect from Matt Wiley. I also really like the five-part structure. Can’t wait to see a copy

The Most Controversial Magazine Covers Of All Time
A mixed bag. Some are obvious – OJ’s darkened skin, Golfweek – but did people really protest over National Lampoon’s dog? Was Andy Warhol drowning in soup quite such a shocking statement? Discuss

French gallery creates large-format exhibition to coincide with magazine
Or vice versa. More evidence that photojournalism these days is treated more as art than journalism

How publishers outsource their circulation
Is there a danger, however, that the brand could get diluted into an offsite formula?

Magazines spread swine flu!
Maybe. Not sure if there’s a scientific basis to this, aside from stopping people touching things other people have touched. Still, that headline will give me lots of Google juice

What New Yorkers read on the subway
Top result: The New Yorker

Jeremy crowdsources map of London’s magazine stores
Some great recommendations there. More! Onwards!

Martha Stewart dresses up for Hallowe’en
Nice/freaky twist on the ever-present cover star

News from the Magosphere 6th March 2009

March 6, 2009 in News round-up | No comments

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New file-sharing magazine site appears
Just PDFs, without Mygazine’s slickness. Odd disclaimer: “You may not use this site to distribute or download any material when you do not have the legal rights to do so”

Dutch museum makes an exhibition magazine
You can read it (or at least 20 pages of it) here

New York magazine archive now on Google
Makes sense. Here’s a sample – and it’s great to see that the ads have been included. New York has featured some good articles, but its archives are now mostly of niche historical interest – not much money for them in that. And it’ll make internal research so much easier

A list of all the magazines that have appeared in The Simpsons
My favourites include “GLUTIUS MAXIMISER”, “MARTIN SHEEN’S TEEN SCENE” and “AMERICAN BREAST ENTHUSIAST”

Wired gets philosophical on designing a magazine
“You’re looking at a box…”

Where Arena went wrong
The author then apologised for the article’s timing – a little unfortunate for one of the mag’s contributing editors. He stands by the piece though, which is good and contains the fabulous phrase “Squares are always more powerful than cool kids, they just need to get organised” – very true. Speaking of which…

Nick Logan on the closure of his last big title
“Since 1999 I’ve not looked at magazines very much.” Unusual and insightful interview with the quiet man who we wanted to get for Colophon, but he kindly declined, saying that one of the motivations for starting his own company was so that he wouldn’t have to speak in public

Ten style magazines for men
Perhaps all is not lost outside the boundaries of EMAP, Conde Nast, Natmags, etc

Heat launches non-celebrity gossip mag
Kind of looks like an 80s teen magazine

Freestyle speaks to Magtastic!
“Every issue will come with a professional-grade frisbee. The first issue has a 110gm fastback from Whammo. We are currently deciding on what will go on the frisbee but it will definitely be either a high-profile designer’s work or a fashion brand. We plan to change the type and size of frisbee each issue (and hence the magazine) – they will always be professional standard as we are all devoted frisbee players.” First issue out in June, apparently

Love, New York

December 15, 2008 in Opinion | 5 comments

Timeless image for a timeless fallback story. Great cover, and good to see them getting away from the big number theory (“1803 reasons! 935 reasons! 32,803 reasons!”)

News from the magosphere 20th Nov ’08

November 20, 2008 in News round-up | 1 comment

‘Sexiest men alive’ issue includes Scratch n Sniff
Thankfully not the smells of the men themselves, but the smells that make them feel sexy. Though you can bet it isn’t the chemical reproduction of the smells that does the trick

Cost of DVD partworks adds up
£457.92 for a series of Buffy you can buy for £20 or less on Amazon (thin naff pseudo magazine not included)

PC Magazine embraces the inevitable before its too late
Goes online for real, rather than pretending to while firing all its staff. More reaction here

Google digitises Life’s database
More than 10 million pics, most of them never seen by the public. The first part of a much bigger strategy I mentioned earlier

Free drinks, free magazine subscription too
Following on from Rolling Stone giving away subscriptions with t-shirts. I think we’ll see a lot more of this in the States before it goes away

Teenagers invited to create Dazed cover
Deadline of today, kids. As it says in the small print, 37-year-old graphic designers beware

Bible magazine launches in English
I interviewed the team behind this for the Wall Street Journal back in February, when it was published in Swedish. I haven’t seen yet if the images are different, though I think some will be. And the New Testament is more bankable than the Old in the USA, it seems

Swiss distributor blogs new magazines
One of those things that makes so much sense, it makes you wonder why everyone doesn’t do it

Japanese fashion magazine for train travellers
Does it include a section called “Rail Lives”?

Tomorrow’s news, today

November 13, 2008 in Clever ideas, USA | No comments

Hurray for desktop publishing. A special spoof edition of the New York Times was distributed free on the streets of the Big Apple yesterday, dated “July 4th 2009″, filled with “all the news we hope to print”. The Iraq War is over, national health care has been introduced and all petrol cars have been recalled.

And apparently, the activists behind the spoof paper printed 1.2 million of the things.

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News from the magosphere 9th Sept 08

September 9, 2008 in News round-up | No comments

Time Out New York isn’t in trouble
Ish. The freelancers and vendors aren’t happy though

The Economist beats Berlusconi in Italian courts
That can’t have happened much. They celebrate by taking to the streets

Agent Provocateur creates alluring print insert
Posters, riddles hidden in images, online interaction to complete the story. Titillating

Videos from Stanford publishing course for mag professionals
Big names from Wired, Glamour and more reveal their insights on the mag world. Surprisingly engaging in parts

Universal News on demand!
Magazines from around the world delivered within two hours in NYC. Blimey

Magazine publisher uses its ad selling know-how online
Creates a network of popular sites to offer to existing and new clients. Good synergy of skills there

Beautiful Zaha Hadid die-cuts on the newsstand
Tony Chambers continues to make Wallpaper* groundbreaking in a non-blinking e-paper kind of way. Can’t wait