Overmatter 10.06.13
A planned quick mention for Some magazine (‘a new magazine between art and design’) turns into an appeal to help them rebuild and repair the university printshop they use to produce the publication. Help them!
Little White Lies and Huck creative teams leave to launch new agency Human After All, mark change with a look back at their work for the two magazines. Support their Kickstarter campaign here.
New magazine Local Quarterly features different local areas of the US each issue.
Time Out chief exec Aksel van der Wal interviewed in today’s Guardian: ‘There is something about Tony (Elliott)’s vision when he set it up and at different times we’ve lost it or it’s gone commercial or safe, but it always comes back around and it is now.’
Great idea: France experiments with a magazine exchange programme (thanks Mike).
Mad idea: US professor attempts to print the internet.
Magazine of the week: Law #3
This is the third issue of London-based LAW, but the first I’ve seen and I’m already excited to see the first two issues. The limited edition (x500) magazine is edited by John Holt, who describes it as being ‘for those who can appreciate and relate to the stylistic value of real everyday Britain.’
At Work With: Paul Sethi, Special Request
We start the new week with a look ahead by Paul Sethi, founder and creative director of new magazine Special Request. Initially conceived as a food magazine, Special Request will have a different theme each issue. The first theme remains Food, but next up will be Television. For the past four years Paul has also been art editor of Clash Magazine.
Out now: Another Escape
At recent Printout evenings it’s been interesting to note the number of magazines appearing from Bristol recently: Cereal and Offlife are two examples. Another Escape is another, an occasional zine that has just morphed into biannual magazine. The result is a smart, focused new magazine about following your inspiration to do what you want to do. Something we can all relate to.
Creative Review column – football magazines
The June issue of Creative Review is out, and as well as lots of Hipgnosis goodies you can read my column about alternative football magazines. ‘Huge areas of newsprint and screen alike need to be filled, and endless tittle tattle does the job nicely. But what if want a little more thoughtful reflection?’
Features the Green Soccer Journal, The Field and Howler among others.
Posted: Acid, surf mag from Barcelona
Surf mags are usually for the obsessed semi-pro/wannebe-pro surfer. New magazine Acid promises to be different. This is a magazine for the weekend surfer, the type of wetsuited amateur I suspect is looked down on by those wannebe-pros. ‘Hardly Any Turns’ is the line on the cover.
Overmatter 14.05.13
‘The US magazine business had become too dependent on big, ad-supported audiences rather than circulation revenue,’ so top US editorial designer Roger Black is packing up his fonts and heading off to Asia.
Gym Class returns! First, a brief interview with UK Esquire art director David McKendrick online and a new issue of the magazine promised soon.
Peter Bilak of Works That Work, on magazine finance and his new Patrons scheme.
Save the magazines! Our friends at Stack are having a clear out, and promise free magazines at 71a Leonard St, Shoreditch this Saturday. Plenty of desirables!
Always good to see German business mag Brand Eins; thanks Voll Auf Die Presse.
Reminder I’m in Amsterdam Friday interviewing Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers from Fantastic Man at What Design Can Do. If you’re there come and say hello.
More wine, food and culture! Hello Noble Rot.
Out now: Off Life #4
Off Life is a free comic published in Bristol and distributed to clubs and galleries around the UK.
Overmatter 30.04.13
Microsoft puts free wifi into latest issue of Forbes. Nice gimmick, but are Forbes readers in need of free wifi? Perhaps try Big Issue next time?
Congratulations to Richard Turley and his Bloomberg Businessweek team for being named Design Studio of the Year by Creative Review. Includes access to my piece for CR about the BBW Steve Jobs memorial edition.
I already mentioned the Hall of Femmes talks in Stockholm later this month; they’ve added further names including Jennifer Daniel, part of that Businessweek team.
Journalist to relaunch the original feminist magazine Spare Rib.
Monotype present a lunchtime talk about ITC’s typography magazine Upper & Lower Case. May 6, New York.
Brilliant run-through the future of newspapers as imagined by TV, the movies and the industry itself: ‘Newsboy Wears a Neon Sign Lighted by Pocket Battery’.
Magazine of the Week: UC Quarterly
Barely a week goes by without another blog publishing a print edition, but not all are as successful as this example from the Austin-based Under Consideration network of blogs. U.C.Quarterly reproduces material from Speak Up, Brand New, Quipsologies, The Design Encyclopedia, Word It, and FPO in 48-page summary form.
