The Magaziner
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Archive for March, 2011
There’s a new magazine site that all of us magaziners will probably want to add to our RSS feeds. The site is called MagSpreads, and as the name suggests, the big draw here is that each post contains a very large collection of interior spreads from the titles covered. Using a tagline like “the worlds [...]
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This article was posted on March 27, 2011 under the category News, Print, and covers the following topics: Flydende Lava Studio, Magazine Design, MagSpreads, Spreads, Volture Magazine
Starting April 23, Starbucks (in the US) will be offering at all its locations free access to the full library of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, which contains a rotating collection of 8000 comics. Would be interesting to see something similar happen with magazine titles, maybe with Zinio for example. Marvel’s Digital Comics Unlimited to Stream Free at [...]
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This article was posted on March 26, 2011 under the category Comics, News, and covers the following topics: Digital Comics, Marvel Comics, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, Starbucks, Zinio
Andrew (Magtastic Blogsplosion) kicks off a new monthly series of posts he’s calling “Three of the Month,” in which he highlights 3 crowdfunded — using sites likes Kickstarter — magazine-related projects. This is a great idea, because it does look like more and more indie titles are launching this way, but it’s hard to keep [...]
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This article was posted on March 26, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: Andrew Losowsky, Crowdfunded, Ferocious Quarterly, Kickstarter, Magtastic Blogsplosion
The new issue of Amsterdam-based fashion brand Tenue de Nîmes’ magazine, Journal de Nîmes, is out (No. 7), and the theme this time is North America. You can read the entire issue online here (Issuu-powered), but proceeds from sales of the print copy here will contribute to Japan aid. Also, this issue features Luis Mendo‘s [...]
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This article was posted on March 25, 2011 under the category New Releases, Print, and covers the following topics: Issuu, Japan Earthquake, Journal de Nîmes, Luis Mendo, New York, Tenue de Nîmes, Tokyo
The new issue of Elephant is out (#6), and not only is it available in print, but for the first time I notice that you can also purchase a digital edition (for previous issues as well). The digital option is available from the Elephant website, but they also offer it through Other Edition (a site/service [...]
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This article was posted on March 24, 2011 under the category New Releases, Print, and covers the following topics: Elephant, iPad, Other Edition, Zinio
The site has been on hiatus for a bit — I’m sure most of you have heard about what has been going on in Japan since March 11 (and for those of you who didn’t know, I am in fact based in Tokyo). We’re slowly getting back to a state of “normality” — although warnings [...]
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This article was posted on March 24, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Afterzine, Art Space Tokyo, Hamish Robertson, Ian Lynam, IDEA, Japan Earthquake, Japan Society, Red Cross, Wordshape
Another week, another terrific Bloomberg Businessweek cover, and this time we get another “Cover Story” post on creative director Richard Turley’s blog. To think that it all come out of this sketch. Cover Story – Cloud Computing [Richard Turley]
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This article was posted on March 5, 2011 under the category Print, and covers the following topics:
Not all of them, but rather to two of the three titles — Glamour, Vanity Fair, and GQ — that didn’t use the Adobe publishing tools that are used for other Conde Nast titles, like Wired and The New Yorker. The justificiation for the price hike — up to $5 from $3-4 — is that [...]
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This article was posted on March 4, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: Adobe, App, Glamour, GQ, iPad, Price, Subscriptions, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired
If the soon-to-relaunch Newsweek turns out to be like what is described below, we may be in for a fun new weekly read. “It’s not your Grandpa Jon’s magazine anymore,” said one staffer, who was pleased with the results on display, aiming a none-too-subtle dig at departed editor Jon Meacham. “It’s slick, contemporary and feels [...]
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This article was posted on March 4, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: GQ, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Time
Consider myself schooled — it didn’t take long after I posted that new Time cover that Robert Newman got in touch with a link to this old post (from 2009) on the SPD’s Grids blog that not only covers a few covers that did the same trick, but it also reveals that this isn’t even a [...]
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This article was posted on March 4, 2011 under the category Print, and covers the following topics: Covers, Mad, Robert Newman, Time, Upside Down