magCulture Live London 2024
magCulture Live London is back! Join us on Thursday 7 November for our annual celebration of magazine culture. The day will focus on the creative power of the double-page spread, and feature a series of talks from designers and editors.
Note: all live tickets have now been sold, but you can follow online by buying a Livestream ticket.
Here is the full line-up for the day:
Richard Turley
Interview, Civiliazation, Offal et al
Shira Inbar
MSCHF & A24 zines
Davide Cazzaro & Tom Lobo Brennan
Notebook
Nina Carter
It’s Freezing in LA!
Anna Morrissey
Tummy Ache
Chris O’Leary
Fatboy Zine
Lucy Roeber
The Erotic Review
Clarke Rudick
Crosscurrent
Auste Skrupskyte Cullbrand
Playground
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Every year magCulture Live London features a series of talks from people behind the most innovative magazines. Each will provide their own unique insight into the role of the magazine in contemporary culture, this year focusing on that fundamental building block of the printed magazine, the double page spread. The day is also a great opportunity to catch up with fellow magazine lovers.
Tickets are limited and selling fast. Book yours now!
It all takes place at the Vitsoe shop in Marylebone. We’ve worked with Vitsoe since our 2014 Reading Room during the London Design Festival, and use their 606 shelving, 620 chairs and 621 tables in our London shop. We also collaborate annually with their New York team during the NY edition of magCulture Live.
The space features a brutalist double-height open space that will be converted into a live venue for magCulture Live. As well as the talks, the magCulture pop-up shop will be open all day, alongside table displays from our partners. The space opens at 12 noon, and talks start at 1pm and run through to 5pm, when everyone’s welcome to stick around for a beer and chat with the magCulture team and guest speakers.
We hope you’ll join us live in London, but are also offering livestream tickets for those who can’t join IRL. All ticket holders will receive a gift bag and have free access to a video of the talks after the event.
Plus!
This year, we’ll be extending our stay at Vitsoe across Friday 8 and Saturday 9 November, with the magCulture Pop-up shop open both days and apair of events under our MagMagMag banner. Read more about that here.
Tickets cost £110 inclusive of VAT and fees, or £80 for students (please book using your university email).
Group rates are available for bookings of over five people—please email events@magCulture.com
The space is fully accessible.
magCulture Live London 2024
Thursday 7 November, 12—5pm
Vitsoe, 21 Marylebone Lane
London W1U 2NG
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Meet the speakers
Richard Turley
Interview, Civilization and more
The last time we presented Richard in London was at our first event back in 2014, at the height of his time at Bloomberg Businessweek. He later turned away from publishing in favour of TV and branding. Today he runs his own creative agency, Food, in New York and is very much back into magazines following the creative success of his experimental broadsheet Civilization.
He is currently editorial and creative director of Interview, has just overseen the redesign of Rolling Stone, challenges the world of fashion with the self-published Nuts, and designs literary mags Heavy Traffic and Offal. All are fascinating experiments in editorial creativity—Offal, for instance, was designed using Word—and it is not an exaggeration to say Richard is one of the key figures forging the future of magazines. He is also a keen observer of the industry and we’re excited to offer him a platform at magCulture Live.
food.xyz
Shira Inbar
A24 and MSCHF zines
Shira spoke at magCulture Live New York earlier this year, and we’re looking forward to welcoming her to London to reprise that brilliant talk. Working at the intersection of editorial design, motion graphics, and illustration across the fields of entertainment, news, tech, and pop culture, she also teaches design at Parsons School of Design and at Yale University.
For magCulture Live she’ll be focusing on her print magazine work for A24 Films, designing magazines inspired by movies and their worlds, as well as her work with MSCHF, the art collective known for viral conceptual exploits.
shira-inbar.com
itsnicethat.com/articles/shira-inbar-julia-dufosse-a24
Lucy Roeber
The Erotic Review
Lucy relaunched The Erotic Review last year, taking a publication with a mixed history—first launched in 1995, it had been dormant for several years—and reinventing it for a modern audience under the banner ‘Exploring Desire’. The result is a beautifully produced magazine exploring our common humanity through desire. As the second issue under her editorship is published, Lucy will be reflecting on the process of reinvention.
As well as Erotic Review, her work has been published in The Guardian, Real Review and The Sunday Times and she’s currently commissioned to write fiction for Lickerish Library.
ermagazine.com
magculture.com/blogs/journal/erotic-review-1
Davide Cazzaro & Tom Lobo Brennan
Notebook
Davide is publishing director at MUBI and oversees projects including Notebook magazine. Before joining MUBI, he launched the independent film magazine Nang; Tom Lobo Brennan is a graphic designer who has experience in different sectors of the creative industry, and currently works at MUBI as Notebook Design Manager.
The two will be sharing insights into the successful launch of Notebook, the magazine dedicated to cinema art and culture, created as an extension of indie cinema streaming platform, MUBI.
mubi.com/en/notebook
Nina Carter
It’s Freezing in LA!
Nina is co-founder of climate change magazine It’s Freezing in LA!, and currently one of the magazine’s creative directors. The magazine has a key role in addressing the climate crisis without scaremongering. She’ll be talking through the ups and down of the project, its focus on illustration, and introducing their upcoming issue 11, ‘Knowledge’.
She is also an illustrator and educator with a focus on the place of illustration and visual storytelling in climate.
itsfreezinginla.com
Chris O’Leary
Fatboy zine
Chris launched his zine about Asian food and identity as a way to document the recipes he grew up with in Hong Kong. Five years later, Fatboy has developed into a sought-after food zine, the latest issue taking the reader on a journey across Taiwan. He’ll be sharing his story and belief in the link bewteen food and culture.
fatboyzine.com
Auste Skrupskyte Cullbrand
Playground
Auste launched Playground to challenge the state of creativity and community by fostering more honesty, play, and less gatekeeping. It’s a publication for imaginative minds—‘If social media is the ego, this is the soul,’—and she’s also a magCulture Flatplan alumnus, having attended ahead of launching her magazine.
Auste will be discussing the big picture of magazine making, and how to hold it together when you are neither a designer, nor an editor.
Clarke Rudick
Crosscurrent
One of our favourite fashion titles, Crosscurrent stands out from the crowd—and the fashion shelf is crowded—for its choice of interview subjects and subtle art direction. He’ll be introducing the imminent fifth issue.
Anna Morrissey
Tummy Ache
One of a new generation of smaller magazines bridging the space between magazine and zine, each issue of Tummy Ache explores a single emotion. The first issue explored vulnerability, the second jealousy, through essays, interviews, poetry and more, with the aim of challenging ‘emotional stagnation’. Anna will present her magazine and her experience of publishing to date.
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