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Behind the front cover, Gym Class #12
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Out now: Neptún #2
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Out now: Double Dot #6
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Magazine of the week: COS Magazine #16
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Nicer Tuesdays, publishing night
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Magazine of the week: Collection of Documenteries #1
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31.05.17
Subsail is a new subscription service for self-published mags from the guy behind MagPile. Could be a game-changer.
New York, 17 June: intriguing lineup as part of Typographics brings Gratuitous Type, This Great Discontent and Babe Vibes together to discuss indies and type.
A brilliant piece of forensic news design from NYTimes extracts maximum info from brief video clips.
Coming very soon: details of this years ModMag.
23.05.17
Distribution meltdown: in the UK, Comag backers Condé Nast and Hearst pull out; in US, Ingrams sells its business.
‘She knows that the magazine — the product of nearly five months of work by a dozen young female volunteers — could very well be burned.’
Hamburg: catch exhibition ‘Making a Magazine’ about ZEITmagazin, until 2 July.
Drew Barrymore on her new magazine Flower Press: ‘It’s going to be really large format. I love magazines like Egoïste and The Manipulator.’
Condé Nast launches another special subscription box, this time for the new Teen Vogue.
11.05.17
London, 25 May: Simon Esterson will be sharing recent projects at the latest Typo Circle night.
It’s Nice That take a look at the redesigned Tate Etc.
Le Gun, ‘Somewhere between art object and pulp fiction’ is Kickstarting a new issue.
05.05.17
Brooklyn, this weekend: Bleed & Score features many of our favourite sports mags: Victory, Mondial, Racquet.
Check out the new-look UK edition of Wired.
AirBnB team up with Hearst to launch a new magazine in the US, because, ‘it can be saved. It isn’t ephemeral, as opposed to content on a feed that expires.’
Creative Review jumps of the monthly treadmill to ‘provide much richer content, greater depth and even better quality in an issue covering two months, instead of the smaller monthly issue.’
26.04.17
How the New York Times decides between linking and matching stories.
Tomorrow, 27 April, at LCC, London: Decoding Diversity includes Jack Self from Real Review.
Street art indie VNA is closing after ten years, and is holding an exhibition and auction of works.
See a complete archive of US design mag Print’s design awards covers.
19.04.17
Photographer Nick Knight interviews stylist (and soon-Vogue UK ed) Edward Enninful.
Kickstarters: new ‘food history’ mag Repast and single-plant-per-issue title Future Fossil Flora.
Rethinking digital design: ‘Could an initial headline reflect visually that the story is evolving and contains incomplete information?’
Archive: a look back at Eye’s 1993 review of Octavo’s eight editions.
12.04.17
Love seeing this type of reaction to a front cover.
Eye on Design notes the Singapore indie boom.
New York, 15 May, Jeremy will be moderating ‘The State of Independence.’
10.04.17
‘Since launching in March 2016, the Refugee Journalism Project has trained 35 refugees with different backgrounds and levels of reporting experience, to help them get a foot in the door of the UK media industry.’
Excitement at British Vogue: Edward Enninful to be new editor.
Must-read: How the NYTimes, Huffington Post and CNN approach multiple publishing channels.
London, Weds: Join us for an evening about travel mags with Suitcase, Lodestars Anthology and N for Norwegian.
04.04.17
Book your tickets to magCulture Meets Real Review, this Thursday and Travel in Real Life next week.
Jeremy notes the continuing failure of digital magazines, ‘just as 18th century publishers adopted a French word… for their publications, maybe we need a new name for digital magazines.’
New Yorkers! Visit new store Import News to see our selected shelf of magazines.
Hear Penny Martin and Jake Silverstein on the latest Monocle24 The Stack.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad world.
28.03.17
Elsewhere is a new Chinese fashion mag that’s currently Kickstarting. Take a look, and support it…
…also crowdfunding, Mold is a new ‘anti-foodie food magazine’ that is clearly not anti-design.
NYTimes takes a look at four women’s indie titles that hope to reach men too.
Tickets already selling fast for magCulture Meets Real Review, 6 April, magCulture Shop. And look out for news of other London events soon.
11.03.17
Hear Jeremy on this weeks Monocle24 The Stack.
We love how the music changes as you scroll on this NYTimes Magazine package.
07.03.17
NYTimes migrates their succesful digital round-up to their print edition.
‘It’s a golden age for magazine covers – thanks Trump!’
Holly Catford takes a look at the design of The Guardian’s daily Long Read feature.
‘Why is marketing for print magazines so outdated?’
23.02.17
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop disccusses their highest-ever sales figures and avoiding digital.
London, 2 March: a great line-up for the first Monocle Media Summit.
London, 4 March: hear how to launch an indie mag from the Delayed Gratification team.
17.02.17
A living, walk-in version of Toilet Paper magazine. Yikes!
German design mag Novum has produced a remarkable 12,500 different front covers for its new issue.
New York magazine to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a series of books.
Good to see plenty of indies among the ASME Ellie winners this year.
14.02.17
Illustration overload! Good to see music mag Recorder make it over the Kickstarter line… next up, support film title Beneficial Shock.
Munich, 9-11/03: QVED returns as EDCH, with Penny Martin, Sven Ehmann, Astrid Stavro, Rob Orchard… great line-up.
London, 14/05: DIY Cultures zine fair.
06.02.17
Editor Liv Siddall talks about her favourite stories in Rough Trade magazine.
Pop-Up Magazine is touring the States this month.
‘…it is difficult to downplay the 1,793 display ad pages Vogue UK published across 2016.’
‘a weekly magazine full of finely edited journalism does not a website make:’ how The New Yorker translated itself to the web.
02.02.17
Get ready for Valentine’s Day! It’s the Mushpit card workshop, Sat 11 February at the magCulture shop.
Great piece about how The New Yorker’s adapted its editorial approach for its website.
The New Yorker and US Vogue are the only two mags to retain the traditional publisher role in Condé Nast reshuffle.
Highly recommended: Riposte event featuring MoMA’s design curator Paola Antonelli.
30.01.17
Tickets still availble for magCulture Meets OOMK this week; read the background to their new mag.
Steven Heller looks back at the ‘legibility wars’ of the mid-80’s, reminding us of April Greiman’s edition of Design Quarterly. Download a copy of the issue here.
‘The longest-serving and most successful Editor of (British) Vogue in its 100-year history,’ Alexandra Shulman resigns after 25 years. Read an interview given on her appointment.
‘If you give the consumer what they want, they will buy it,’ says Time Inc President.
Here come the annual PPA Awards.
23.01.17
How Teen Vogue came to be at the forefront of opposition to Trump.
Ruth Jamieson asks, ‘just what is it about bad taste that feels so damn delicious right now?’
Indie publisher offers some great advice based on experience with The Eighty Eight.
Hear the OOMK team discuss their new Risograph studio; and book tickets for magCulture Meets OOMK next week.
18.01.17
Israeli mag A5 is looking for submissions for its next issue, theme ‘Island.’
…meanwhile The New York Times has been considering what its newsroom of 2020 will be like.
Management changes at Condé Nast as Nicolas Coleridge moves on to become Chairman.
Jeremy looks ahead at 2017 for Design Week.