Magazines in the design press
There’s plenty to read about magazines in the design press this month.
Cars, meat, homes and music
Four years ago yesterday I uploaded a couple of hundred words on Grazia, and magCulture began. I had no idea it would still be around this much later. Thanks you for your support over the years.
Be way of a quick celebration here are the latest covers of some magCulture favourites, starting with Carl*s Cars, above.
New Pop
So… we started the week with the cover of the new issue of Love, now here at the end of the week is the next cover of their rival Pop. It features new generation supermodel Abbey Lee shot by Richard Prince, and surely positions Pop as the edgier of the two titles.
New London freesheet
I pride myself on being positive here on magCulture. It would be easy to take cheap shots at new projects.
But London Weekly, a new free newspaper launched today, really is shockingly poor. I didn’t last year’s redesign of the long-standing London daily Evening Standard was a great step forward for newspaper design, but this new weekly plumbs new depths, leaving the Standard up there with… well, just about any professionally executed newspaper.
Previous free newspapers in London weren’t great design either, but benfited from being good enough. That is, they looked better than you expected from a freebie. Sadly, the London Weekly looks exactly what you expect from a freebie.
View the pages one by one here.
Overmatter
Malcolm Garrett feels good about the iPad: ‘For me the real interest lies in the evolution of the interface rather than any debate about the precise form factor’. More here.
US shopping title Lucky is latest to experiment with using printed barcodes to activate digital content, this time using Microsoft Tag technology to link to videos on smartphones.
Italian magazine Rent looks interesting – infographics ahoy!
Not magazines really, but Duke Press are making some cool short-run publications, particularly this one from Jess Wilson.
There was a great excerpt from Patti Smith’s upcoming autobiograpy in the Observer last weekend. It has it all: Mapplethorpe, New York, the Velvets, Warhol, but overlooked one key detail. Here, designer/writer Steven Heller reminisces about how he worked with Smith on a music mag back in the seventies. His short piece sums up the story arc of young rebel through to happy mom.
Mike Koedinger interviewed
Luxembourg publisher and Colophon colleague Mike Koedinger, above, is interviewed about independent publishing by Qompendium editor Kimberley Lloyd here.
One week to go to EDO DIY 2010
Don’t forget that the next EDO event is set for Tuesday 9th February. Bring your favourite piece of editorial design along to LCF (Oxford Circus) and we’ll blu-tac it to the wall to create a one-off snapshot of our industry’s best bits from last year.
What’s your favourite? Bring it along and join friends and colleagues for a few drinks on us. Full details here.
New Love
Issue three of Love is published next week, with eight different covers. Each one features a completely naked supermodel – Kate (above), Naomi, Kristen, Amber, Natalia, Daria, Jeneil and Lara – shot in the same pose by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot. More here, and see complete set here.
All reproductions seem to have blanked out the naughty bits. How will they appear on the shelves?
Overmatter
Much as I enjoy Dwell, this site did make me laugh (thanks Marcus).
Stack’s blog asks some independent publishers what they think of the iPad.
OK Periodicals call for work for issue 4, themed Curiousities.
Preston is My Paris moves into limited edition book publishing and opens a gallery.
Mark provides images of and insight into the personalised newspaper project Personal News.
Johnny Wilkinson to guest-edit London’s free weekly Sport.
Some random but beautiful ‘magazines of yesteryear’ (thanks Adrian).
That name
Criticism of the iPad name has centred on the use of ‘pad’ and the (particularly US) association with women’s sanitary products. But the word has plenty of other non-tech associations – launchpad, sketchpad, bachelor pad, cotton pad to list a few – plus it can be used as a verb.
So far I haven’t seen the most obvious comment about the name noted anywhere. It’s short, simple, easily pronouncable in most langauges, and most importantly of all is the word iPod with one character changed. The name and logo create a powerful synergy and immediately speaks to the millions of people in the world who already own an iPod.
Gizmodo has a complete round up of iPad news and comment.
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