“Unlike a “pure” printing journal from the printing industry, what we describe here is the relationship between the graphic designer, the printer, and the printed matter. It is also an investigation of the similarities and differences in the viewpoints and attitudes towards printing, and to imagine new ways of collaboration.”
Highly Recommended.
Apartamento is an Interiors magaazine that looks for inspiration from everyday environments and the objects people choose to surround themselves with rather than an idealised aspirational model of traditional interiors magazines.
So we’re off to Berlin in a week or so, (and then 3rd/4th graphics next month), and coincidentally, the current issue of eye magazine has several special features on the city.
As an aside, the last few editions of eye magazine (72 and 73) have been full of interesting and useful stuff about illustration, graphics, graphic designers as illustrators, the changing world of photography, and generally stuff that asks lots of useful and interesting questions about these ‘distinctions’, their validity, and their place in the shifting world of visual communications. Strongly recommended.
(image by HORT).
NASA’s Earth Obsertvatory, and their amazing collection of free-to-use high-quality satellite photography, can prove a very fulfilling web-based distraction. It was brought to my attention via an article in Task Newsletter, an initiative which I think originates from the Werkplaats Typografie.
Also discussed a lot in that publication, which focuses on both design utopias and mundane science-fiction, is the Whole Earth Catalog — The product of Stewart Brand, some powerful drugs, and a left-over project from 1966 when he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, the first image of the “Whole Earth.”
It was Brands idea that the image of this “Whole Earth”, viewed as one, at once, might go someway towards creating greater global cooperation and understanding – a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny.
Leonora Belcher from Indicate got in touch about their magazine. They’re on the look-out for contributors; if you’re interested email indicatemagazine[at]hotmail.co.uk
Image: Max Henderson, from current edition.
Hi, my name is Dick Murray, and I have a total hatecrush on Momus. And he’s written this stupid book. And he even writes (or wrote) for these idiotic magazines and blogs; Wired, Vice, Index Magazine, AIGA Voice, and Design Observer.
Paul Jenkins digests the Typographica exhibition at Kemistry Gallery, mentioned here a few posts ago.
Just taken delivery of this: the 1969 book by Scottish designer of note Ruari McLean: Designing Magazines
The preface makes the quite audacious (but possibly true) claim that this is the first book to be published on magazine design in any language. Here are some more contemporary, but possibly not as ground-breaking, counterparts.
The next magazine meeting is 1pm, fri 9th october, second year studio. all welcome.
(Apologies for the crappy phone pictures above. Almost as bad as Sam’s Scanner.)
The magazine already mentioned as a vis com extra curricular project — will have its inaugural meeting on friday (25th) this week, 1pm, second year couches. If you’re interested in getting involved, please come along, if you’re not interested in getting involved, come along anyway, stand in the background and talk loudly. (semi-random link). If you’re interested in getting involved but can’t make it, please email n.mcguire{at}gsa.ac.uk and i’ll add you to the mailing list and keep you posted on further updates.
Advance warning of what looks to be an excellent exhibition and series of talks on the work of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins at Street Level Photoworks, in their new home at Trongate 103.
Have already mentioned this to a few, so broadening the discussion here, but planning to produce a visual communication magazine this coming year, (or a magazine that comes out of visual communication). It will be one edition per year, of the highest calibre (obviously), and open to anyone who wants to get involved. And on that topic, via oskar kron, I received this link, which might prove a good starting point: Typographica. In the meantime, if anyone wants to start collecting examples of interesting magazines, that’d also be a good starting point.
If you’re in London on the 26th July, and would like to swap stuff, the inaugural Barterama at the Barbican might be worth a visit.
On a drive back from the wonderful Kingdom of Fife yesterday I became enraged by the dribble on Weekend Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. It’s bad enough that ALL women’s magazines are full of CRAP. Most of Woman’s Hour was taken up by anthropomorphic dog stories from Battersea Dogs home, my favourite quote being “Border Collies are probably more intelligent than human beings” Hmmm, yes probably. Ok, so it wasn’t all this bad but it did get me started on a hunt for some better magazines and found KnockBack which I ordered, Subtext, which is always looking for contibutors in art direction and writing.
This article in G2 last week by Hadley Freeman also raises some interesting points about female journalism in daily newspapers.
An oversight to not have posted it already, but Wired Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of ideas, technology, design and culture. In the current edition one article which caught my eye was the emergence of online 3d print and fabrication on-demand facilities. One example (pictured) is an example of what you can do at Ponoko, and here is an alternative company doing similar things, Shapeways.
Perhaps Bruce Sterling’s predictions that every home will have an object fabricator, (to which designs for all necessary objects can be downloaded, then customised and fabricated on-site), is not as far away as we might have thought.
Makes our print-on-demand book look a bit ‘last year’…
This interesting report looks at the future of magazines in these economically/ecologically/fill-in-the-blank difficult times.
The Magazine Ning
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