Fantastic sister
Over the next week or so, copies of Fantastic Man’s little sister The Gentlewoman will be finding its way to a store near you. I’m really looking forward to seeing an issue – meanwhile here’s a first glimpse of the front cover.
Design Week redesigned
Designing for designers is often a thankless task. First, your audience always think they know better. This view then splits in one of two directions – the reader either believes the work in question is over-designed and fussy, or that the design is a missed opportunity and under-designed. These two extremes will also be offered about the same project by different people. You’re faced with a bunch of critics who believe their opinion valid, yet have probably never designed a magazine in their lives.
The big iPhone
‘A digital magazine without links is a CD-Rom’ – right. ‘the most vibrant magazines… will live on the Web (not some jewel-encased app)’ – wrong.
GQ winning race to launch Condé Nast’s (and worlds?) first iPad magaizne app. But is it a full-blown magazine experience or an enlarged version of its iPhone app?
Maria Garcia places the iPad alongside other editorial advances, and notes there’s always someone ready to dismiss the new.
Overmatter
The Guardian notes the toughest challenge for politicians in the upcoming UK election: getting the tone right when interviewed by womens magazines.
Kimerley Lloyd is giving a talk about her latest project, the gorgeously produced Qompendium. Luxembourg, March 26.
Over half of bigger magazine websites profitable.
Real Simple celebrates its tenth birthday by giving its readers the gift of time.
EDO/BSME event: What’s on your iPad?
Apple unveiled the first iPad ad during the Oscar ceremony yesterday.
First up, disclosure: as EDO chair I helped set up last week’s combined EDO/BSME panel discussion about digital publishing. It was originally scheduled for last November, but the delay allowed the iPad announcement and subsequent speculation to convert an important subject into an essential one. It also allowed me to hand over the role of EDO chair to Simon Esterson, and meant I was in the audience at LCF and able to write this review.
The big iPhone
Apple have announced the iPad will go on sale in the US on April 3, with full-spec versions following at the end of April. Prices $429–$829. All versions will be available in the UK at the end of April, prices tbc.
Review of EDO/BSME event to follow
Overmatter
SPD shares the latest redesign of Fortune magazine, and MediaWeek has some background to the project (thanks Bob).
Happy 4th birthday, Vague Paper. To mark the milestone, they’re selling the final 50 copies of their launch issue here.
Times 2, the daily features section, gets the chop.
Mr Magazine discusses the future of print.
Brit Designs of the Year winners
Congratulations to the Newspaper Club, who won the graphics category at the the Brit Designs of the Year event last night. They go through as a finalist to be judged against the other category winners, below. Overall winner will be announced March 16.
Architecture: Monterrey Housing, Mexico.
Fashion: Alexander McQueen. Catwalk presentation Plato’s Atlantis.
Furniture: Grassworks. By Jair Straschnow.
Graphics: The Newspaper Club. By Ben Terrett, Russell Davies and Tom Taylor.
Interactive: The EyeWriter. By members of Free Art and Technology, openFrameworks, Graffiti Research LA, The Ebeling Group and Tony Quan.
Product: Folding Plug. By Min-Kyu Choi.
Transport: E430 Electric Aircraft.
UPDATE: pictures of all winners now on Design Museum site. Watch the announcement as it appeared on TV last night.
Manzine 3
Manzine returns, not only pinker and funnier than ever, but available to buy online.
Celebrate The Tree (Manzine Design Classic No3); take a photographic tour round the former Iraqi embassy in East Berlin; learn bachelor cookery. There’s even a free colour print by Ralph Steadman. And days after Monocle claimed their tote bag sales had funded their new Hong Kong bureau, enjoy Manzine’s pop-up Berlin street store (after the jump) which rather than fund a new bureau was presumably diverted to pay for the free print.
It’s free that
The third issue of It’s Nice That is at the printers. The magazine, shortlisted for the Brit Designs of the Year, is attracting ever-bigger names, with the likes of Milton Glaser, Paul Smith and Tom Dixon all involved this time. Geoff McFetteridge discusses his preference for writing over designing, and Ken Garland reveals his love of rust. Mixed in among these features is the usual selection of archive material from the past six months of the excellent It’s Nice That blog.
Pre-order the issue before March 31st and you’ll also receive a free 980 x 550mm print by Parra (below).
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