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The Daily Mail identifies iPad owners as a problem elite.
Front cover shot using an iPhone 4 (via Subtraction).
Congratulations to Stack‘s Steven Watson for his inclusion in the Hospital Club 100.
Ex-Time art director Arthur Hochstein defends Roger Black’s Ready-Media project.
‘Condé Nast has evolved from a publishing company into a media company,’ according to new president Robert Sauerberg.
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Washington Post columnist bemoans recent changes in the priorities of the newsroom.
Apple sales boom includes computers, as consumers are enticed by iPhone and iPad. Coming later this year: ‘more amazing products’.
Roger Black and team collaborate on ready-made publication templates. Next up, monkey writes Shakespeare.
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Ben applauds Stack because it exposes him to ‘things that I would probably say I hated if you asked me.’
GQ editor Dylan Jones interviewed last week by the Guardian: ‘The thing that surprised me about last year was that not as many people went out of business as I thought they would.’
Luxembourg’s City magazine and Landjäger from Austria both win prizes at the European Design Awards.
‘Headline headghgh’ – what kind of headline is that?
Wallpaper* guest editors
Wallpaper* has just published their annual guest editor edition, this time featuring contributions and front covers from Karl Lagerfeld and Philippe Starck. The cover above is Lagerfeld’s, who self-indulgently strips his male model using a sticker, below:
More on Arena, Maxim closures
Tony at Magforum succinctly makes the point that despite the closure of two of the UK market’s most prominent names, many men’s magazines continue to survive and others launch; while James Brown adds his angle on the market in the Observer.
His argument – that the UK market is a victim of it’s own success – is a valid one. The first men’s title, Arena, launched against the prevailing wisdom that men’s magazines couldn’t work in the UK. From a starting point of zero, Arena, and later Brown’s Loaded, established a space for men’s content that has grown to encompass more monthlies, a pair of weeklies (Nuts, Zoo), plus free titles (Shortlist, Sport), TV channels (SkySports, Dave) and online titles (Monkey).
It’s not the market as a whole that’s failing, it’s the individual magazines.
Maxim to close
Dennis have announced that the next issue of men’s title Maxim wil be the last one. In 2000 it was selling 328,463 copies a month, a figure that had decreased to 45,951 at the end of last year. The familiar phrase ‘continue as an online brand’ has also been uttered, although in this case Dennis’s experience with digital-only brand Monkey suggests some truth in that statement.
Digital edition of The Week
Dennis Publishing, publishers of online magazine Monkey, will be producing a one-off online edition of The Week later this month (April 20). Full story here.
Monkey ‘hates the Zoo and eats Nuts’
I learned some great facts and figures at a presentation by Kerin O’Conor and Ben Raworth, the people behind Monkey magazine yesterday morning. Perhaps the most surprising was that user response has led them to halve the number of pages featuring girls from 16pp to 8pp. So much for my earlier assumption that it was just one level above a porn website.
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The Last Magazine, reviewed
Here’s my review of David Renard’s recent book ‘The Last Magazine’, published in Creative Review this week. Read the rest of this entry
