Overmatter 21.02.11

Latest on the next EDO event – it’s confirmed for March 17 and features magCulture favourites Fire and Knives, Ride Journal and Grafik talking about their projects. Details from edo@gillbranston.com

An archive of Frieze front covers and Google’s archive of eighties wonderful (and still influential) satire mag Spy.

Colophon2011 was due to happen in a couple of weeks but as reported previously it’s been postponed. The good news: I met with my fellow curators Mike and Andrew yesterday and have shaped plans for the next year or so. Details soon.

SPD Awards finalists announced, featuring Bloomberg Business Week, Elle Collections, New York, Wired Italia, New York Times Magazine and what appears to be just about every page from the year’s editions of US Wired.

The latest UK ABC figures show a continued downward trend, but some magazines are doing better, inparticular weekly news titles.