Journal tagged by Magazines

Hype for the launch of a magazine: '"A new type of magazine will either elate the top 100,000 thinking men in this country, or be a miserable flop". This frank and frankly snobbish advertising heralded the advent of a new...

The fifth print compendium from online magazine thisisamagazine.com has just been published. The previous editions have been remarkable for their use of printing and finishing techniques, and this one sounds even better. Called 'Who I Think I Am', it features...

Deadline for entering the 2007 D&AD Awards is next Wednesday, January 10. The more magazine/newspapers entered the better; this is only the second year they've had a seperate category dedicated to magazine and newspapers (see previous post). Yes, it's expensive,...

I celebrated the start of 2007 with a trip to the Alan Fletcher show at the Design Museum, and very good it was too. Plenty has been written about him and the exhibition already, and I expected it to be...

Following the news about Creative Review handing the editorship of it's February 2007 issue to ad agency Mother, I had the opportunity to talk with the magazine's editor Patrick Burgoyne about the project. Guest editorships have drawn some criticism recently,...

Some new/newish books about magazines for your Amazon wishlist to Santa: 100 Years of Magazine Covers is a big, fat but rather confused book. In fact it feels like two books shoe-horned together. The text by Steve Taylor (editor of...