Overmatter: 21.05.14
Behind the scenes of the recent Boat redesign, ‘inspired by classic literary journals.’
Issue one of Four & Sons, ‘Where dogs and culture collide’ is now available for order.
Interview with the founders of US mag Cherry Bombe, ‘It's food, femininity, and a kind of fierceness in two simple words.’
The Guardian continue to build their future, nabbing NYTimes digital news editor Aron Pilhofer.
Offscreen editor Kai Brach, interviewed by Coolhunting, describes how paper ‘forces us to slow down, to switch off and read for pleasure"
It’s the World Cup in three weeks, get that front cover ready! Here are the first examples, via Nascapas.
‘We wrote in inverted pyramids,’ Jeff Jarvis looks back at how newspaper articles once had to fade out rather than reach a crescendo.
Some lovely original illustrations available on this online auction in support of Bob Newman.
The magCulture hour of Megazines from last month’s Pick Me Up is now available online. Hear me and Steve Watson run through an A-Z of magazine making as our guests share their favourite independent mags.
And… don’t forget next Tuesday, straight after the bank holiday, is the next Printout night, a design special.