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Archive for February, 2012
Terroir is a very interesting magazine that absolutely exemplifies the D.I.Y. ethos. Here’s how its creator, Benjamin Koh, describes the process of producing an issue (and by issue, I really do mean issue): Terroir Magazine (no, it’s not Terror) is a bespoke bi-annual publication that seeks to collaborate with and showcase Singaporean perspectives on travel. [...]
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This article was posted on February 19, 2012 under the category New Releases, Print, and covers the following topics: Benjamin Koh, DIY, Singapore, Terroir
Sure, it’s not a magazine, but we certainly see a lot of square-bound bricks out there — think Monocle — and so it would be interesting to see one of them take a cue from the Torafu-designed Pick-a-Book. It’s a notebook that has a shape that makes it stand out from your shelf. Pick-a-book by [...]
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This article was posted on February 19, 2012 under the category News, Print, and covers the following topics: Monocle, Pick-a-Book, Torafu
MagCulture’s Jeremy Leslie and Eye magazine’s Simon Esterson are launching a new event in March, a celebration of editorial design. Making Magazines 2012 will take place on March 16 at St Bride Foundation in London. The last few years have seen huge changes to how magazines are created and consumed. The result has been a [...]
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This article was posted on February 19, 2012 under the category Events, Print, and covers the following topics: Eye, Jeremy Leslie, Making Magazines, Making Magazines 2012, Simon Esterson
Here’s a video of what the five digital judges thought about the entries for this year’s SPD 47 Awards — judging took place a week ago. SPD 47: What the Digital Judges Liked [Grids]
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This article was posted on February 19, 2012 under the category News, and covers the following topics: Awards, Competition, SPD, SPD 47, Video
The big promise of Newsstand was that new issues would be downloaded in the background, ready to be read when you turn your iPad on. Lots of titles are now included as part of Newsstand, but so far, I’ve yet to ever see any magazine that is built on the Adobe DPS tools automatically download [...]
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This article was posted on February 9, 2012 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Adobe, Adobe DPS, App, Bloomberg Businessweek, Conde Nast, GQ, iPad, Newsweek, SPIN Play, Subscriptions, The New Yorker, Wired, Wired UK
It’s not often that I get to cover something that is happening in Tokyo, and here’s an event/exhibition by mono.kultur that recently kicked off (running until February 17) — I unfortunately couldn’t make it to the opening due to a flu outbreak at home. Our first project in 2012 is kind of an unusual one [...]
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This article was posted on February 7, 2012 under the category Events, Print, and covers the following topics: Kai von Rabenau, mono.graphie, mono.kultur, Palette Gallery, Tokyo
We’ve been seeing more and more Kickstarter campaigns to help launch or publish new issues of indie titles, but it’s not the only service around to help do such things, and here’s an example of IndieGoGo being used for the same (and it’s a better option if you’re not based in the US, since Kickstarter [...]
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This article was posted on February 5, 2012 under the category News, Print, and covers the following topics: IndieGoGo, Kalimat, Kalimat Magazine, Kickstarter
The latest Linefeed Reading List video (for January 2012) brings together two fellow magaziners — Michael Bojkowski and Gym Class Magazine‘s Steven Gregor — for a dynamic dose of magazine reviewing fun. Linefeed Reading List — January 2012 [Linefeed]
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This article was posted on February 4, 2012 under the category News, Print, and covers the following topics: Gym Class Magazine, Linefeed, Linefeed Reading List, Michael Bojkowski, Steven Gregor, Video
And if that Good Times “making of” video wasn’t enough, here’s one that reveals the process behind cover for the new issue of Novum. Novum’s geodesic front cover [MagCulture]
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This article was posted on February 4, 2012 under the category Print, and covers the following topics: Cover, Making, Novum, The Good Times, Video
I absolutely love this short video montage that offers a glimpse at the making of the recent The Good Times free paper. A tightly packed video capsule of magazine making porn. Here’s the site for the Good Times project, and you can download a PDF version of the paper here. The making of The Good [...]
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This article was posted on February 4, 2012 under the category Print, and covers the following topics: Making, The Good Times, Video