Journal tagged by Resources
Cover story
Overmatter 13.06.13
What-is-a-magazine update: ahead of the soon-come and hugely exciting Container, Little Utopia reviews The Thing Quarterly. The new Spare Rib will not be called Spare Rib. Bo Sacks reports from retail conference: more magazines sold on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays...
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Print x Digital
More fun than a server farm
A quick reminder what happens after you email the PDFs. Kids’ newspaper The Loop made this short film about the printing of their latest issue. Buy a copy here.
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Opinion
Port x The Golden Age
The idea that this is a Golden Age for magazines seems counter-intuitive to many. We’re so conditioned to websites, devices and apps being hailed as the only possible future. Yet there is great creative work being done (as I hope...
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Resource
Mr Magazine tells it as he sees it
‘Today’s print is not your father’s print. Today’s magazines are not your father’s magazines. But in both cases they are still print and they are still magazines. Like it or not, they are here to stay. So, to the gloom...
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Event
Interview with Fantastic Man
Last week I did a live interview with Gert Jonkers and Jop von Bennekom, the editors of Fantastic Man, at the third What Design Can Do conference in Amsterdam. You can watch our conversation above (25mins). The conference encompassed all...
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Books
Remembering Blitz magazine
My first magazine job was art directing eighties style mag Blitz, a magazine that has largely been overshadowed by The Face and i-D since. These two were launched by experienced industry figures – i-D’s Terry Jones was previously Vogue art...
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