Curious Iconic Craft
A couple of weeks ago my friends at Human After All launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book about their work for Little White Lies and Huck magazines.
‘Curious Iconic Craft’ will document the art direction and design Paul Willoughby and Rob Longworth, respectively, have done over 85 issues of the magazines across the past eight years or so, as they step away from the projects to take on new challenges. As well as recording the creative work itself, the 100pp book promises real insight into the magazine-making process.
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Steve interviews Dan and Paul from football mags The Field and Spiel on Stack.
Future group publisher Katherine Radarecht describes how they build a pre-launch audience via Facebook.
An archive of the controversial Black Panther Party newspaper (1968-73).
Who Made That? – an interactive version of the New York Times Magazine’s recent Innovations Issue.
Ever wonder what that Sky Mall catalogue in the seat pocket of your US flight is? Wonder no more.
At Work With: Heath Killen, Desktop
As its names suggests, Australian monthly Desktop started out covering early desk top publishing. Recently it has developed a more challenging approach to its subject, each issue exploring broader themes around graphic design in the context of Australia. Here, we look ahead at the week with editor Heath Killen.
magCulture x Monocle Country Fayre
Thanks to everyone who came down to the Monocle Country Fayre yesterday and visited our stall. It all starts up again at 11am this morning – come and say hello.
11am–5pm, Saturday 15/Sunday 16 June
Midori House, 1 Dorset Street, W1U 4EG
Entrance is free but donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists encouraged.
If you can’t make it along you can hear me talk about some of the featured magazines on yesterday’s edition of The Stack (along with an interview with Sam Walton, founder of beautiful new mag Hole & Corner, there in the picture below). And don’t forget our online shop!
My Favourite Magazine update
First of all, thank you to everyone who tweeted, facebooked and generally spread the word about My Favourite Magazine, our project in support of Bob Newman. A big thank you to Creative Review for blogging about it, and The Huffington Post media section for tweeting about it.
An even bigger thank you to the 80+ people who have contributed from around the world. The line-up ranges from the creative directors of some of the world’s biggest magazines to people behind smaller independent titles. They all tell great personal stories about the magazines that inspire them, stories we can’t wait to share. Who chose Colors? Octavo? RayGun? National Geographic?
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What-is-a-magazine update: ahead of the soon-come and hugely exciting Container, Little Utopia reviews The Thing Quarterly.
The new Spare Rib will not be called Spare Rib.
Bo Sacks reports from retail conference: more magazines sold on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays than other days (scroll down).
With the arrival of iOS7 all apps will need to be reconsidered, says Marco Arment.
New-writing/illustration magazine Popshot have posted their illustrations on Pinterest.
‘Best Covers’ lists, where would we be without you?
Out now: the seventh issue of Put A Egg On It. Yum.
magCulture shop at the Monocle Country Fayre
This weekend magCulture will be setting up shop at the Monocle Country Fayre, selling a selection of our favourite independent magazines (listed below) and one or two surprises. Click on the flyer to see who else will be setting up stall.
Come and say hello – we hope to have some of the people behind the magazines joining us too.
11am–5pm, Saturday 15/Sunday 16 June
Midori House, 1 Dorset Street, W1U 4EG
Entrance is free but donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists encouraged.
Anorak
Apartamento
Article
Cereal
Eye
Fantastic Man
The Gentlewoman
The Gourmand
Hole & Corner
LAW
The Modernist
Noble Rot
Port
If you can’t make it along, try our online shop.
More fun than a server farm
A quick reminder what happens after you email the PDFs. Kids’ newspaper The Loop made this short film about the printing of their latest issue. Buy a copy here.
Port x The Golden Age
The idea that this is a Golden Age for magazines seems counter-intuitive to many. We’re so conditioned to websites, devices and apps being hailed as the only possible future. Yet there is great creative work being done (as I hope this site regularly demonstrates) right under our noses in the traditional medium of print.
i-D x V&A
i-D founder/editor Terry Jones has designed the latest cover of the V&A Magazine to mark the museum’s soon-come 80s exhibition ‘Club to Catwalk’. Editor Thomas Phongsathorn asked him to create a cover that captures his personal and professional memories of the decade; Jones dug into the i-D photo archive to create it (click image for larger version).
The issue also has a piece by Blitz fashion editor Iain R Webb about the club fashion of the era.
UPDATE: read Terry Jones on the making of the cover.
