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Print Culture
Syntax
Great narration and content direction combined with irony, humor and intelligent critique. A magazine to be enjoyed alone and by yourself – no other distraction should be allowed. Quote by Kimberly Lloyd.
Extended feature here.
Editor’s Choice
Michael Specter
Michael Specter is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book, Denialism, asks why we have increasingly begun to fear scientific advances instead of embracing them.
Watch Michael Specter on Ted.
How much would you pay for the Universe?
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on the importance of NASA for the United States and the world.
Watch the video here.
Eric Sanderson
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife – accurate down to the block – when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
Watch Eric Sanderson on Ted.
Introducing
Aubrey de Grey
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta teams with anti-aging experts Aubrey de Grey and Dan Buettner to bring you an in-depth discussion on the search for immortality. Watch it here.
Arcademi
Art Lawyer
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Tuesday, 31.08.2010
Many brands have discovered curatorial journalism for themselves and many are turning in to experts when it comes to utilizing the force of multiplication by tying up creative professionals in their branding process as well. And so did Gas Jeans with its 25th anniversary celebration by creating a book and an exhibition with 15 creative individuals – graphic designers, illustrators, writers, photographers, designers and directors to interpret the brand Gas Jeans.
The process resulted into a hardbound book of 226 pages with nine chapters reflecting the passion and philosophy of this company to its one and only product “denim”. As publishers, journalists and graphic designers ourselves we can certify that this brand book is thoroughly Italian in its quality; brilliantly offset printed on the Munken paper stock, solid typography and colorful photography. Each book is hand-signed by the mastermind of the brand: Claudio Grotto.
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Journal de Nîmes Issue 5
The newspaper is designed with love to illustrational details and typography by our friend Joachim Baan, the founder of Another Company.
The British Issue features the new collection of Nigel Cabourn, the factory visit at Grenson, a city map of London by Luis Mendo, British Treasures and the announcement for the opening of the Red Wing Shoes store in Amsterdam and more.
This tabloid should be an inspiration and an example for any concept store to follow meticulously.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Tuesday, 24.08.2010
The newspaper is designed with love to illustrational details and typography by our friend Joachim Baan, the founder of Another Company.
The British Issue features the new collection of Nigel Cabourn, the factory visit at Grenson, a city map of London by Luis Mendo, British Treasures and the announcement for the opening of the Red Wing Shoes store in Amsterdam and more.
This tabloid should be an inspiration and an example for any concept store to follow meticulously.
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Podcast
The Monocle Mediterraneo Review
We believe that print is more than alive but it can only stay alive if you keep your content strong, your design inspiring and find commodities to prove your unique selling proposition and then you will also find advertising companies. Here comes Monocle's extension line and it keeps all promises.
Download podcast now.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Tate Etc.
“Tate Etc.” is the official print magazine of the museum Tate Modern and the publishers claim that it is the “largest art magazine in Europe”.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Tuesday, 27.07.2010
“Tate Etc.” is the official print magazine of the museum Tate Modern and the publishers claim that it is the “largest art magazine in Europe”.
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Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 26.07.2010
Newspaper aficionados, this summer is indeed one of the best for us. We are very happy to see Monocle launch its summer newspaper, which is supposed to be a super-sized, high-quality newspaper, targeting holidaying readers around the Mediterranean and city hubs throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
We have not received the hard copy yet, but we will be posting soon in detail on its haptic, functionality and ofcourse content factor. As our publisher soul-mate Tyler Brûlé puts it: “There’s a huge amount of talk about the death of print, thanks to various types of ‘pad’ devices, but if you think of summer – with sand, swimming, sun cream and socialising - a carefully crafted newspaper is more useful and reader-friendly than a backlit screen that hates the sun and salt”.
We believe that print is more than alive but it can only stay alive if you keep your content strong, your design inspiring and find commodities to prove your unique selling proposition and then you will also find advertising companies. Monocle partners with BMW, BlackBerry and Pictet as part of the mix for their summer newspaper.
The Monocle newspaper is available on newsstands from 29 July for eight weeks, accompanied by the weekly Monocle Summer Series audio bulletin, online at www.monocle.com from 30 July.
The Monocle newspaper cover price: £3.50/€5; size: 460 x 300mm; pagination: 60
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Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Wednesday, 14.07.2010
As the name of the magazine Inventory reveals, it is a print publication for goods and materials and the Creative Director Ryan Willms likes to be quoted, “it is a curation of ideas in product, craft and culture”. Inventory is printed in Canada with a total run of 5,000 copies altogether by the printing house “Printcrafters”. This menswear journal delivers the typical material of a promising independent magazine. Giving the reader interviews, short articles, spreads of photography, still-life details, portraits of retailers and even product placements alongside illustrations, solid typography focusing on middle-sized to small companies specialized in quality and craftsmanship. Design wise it does remind extremely of the almighty Monocle. Paper wise it is printed on an uncoated stock, unfortunately the printing profiles could have been modified to the paper as printing on an uncoated stock is not an easy job and we know that mostly all printers hate doing it.
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Highsnobiety Magazine
Who says print is dead? Here is another proof of publishing entrepreneurship. This magazine is a simple adaptation of a blog into printed media – from Highsnobiety.com to 84 pages of printed matter.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 12.07.2010
Who says print is dead? Here is another proof of publishing entrepreneurship. This magazine is a simple adaptation of a blog into printed media – from High Snobiety.com to 84 pages of printed matter.
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You know, this is probably the last interview I will be doing in a long time.
Pieter Hugo
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 01.07.2010
An excerpt from Syntax #2, a book edited by CS Leigh. Find out more about it here and read on the converstation between CS Leigh and Kimberly Lloyd.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
I believe a book must be like a giant Kinder Egg.
Pontus Frankenstein
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 01.07.2010
Pontus Frankenstein is one of the personalities featured in our favorite bookazine Syntax by CS Leigh. A collector's item so look for it on ebay or bokstores as it is almost sold out.
Read interview with CS Leigh and Kimberly Lloyd here.
Syntax –
a Book of Ideas
A crusader for boldness? It is a dwarf compared to some big Taschen books or some over-proportioned newspapers that brand themselves as magazines. The exact dimensions are 14,5 cm by 19 cm and 2,5 cm thick, and it weighs ca. 750 grams. This 384 pages could be classified as a cross between a magazine and a soft-bound book. And it is almost sold out.
Edited by CS Leigh
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 01.07.2010
A crusader for boldness? It is a dwarf compared to some big Taschen books or some over-proportioned newspapers that brand themselves as magazines. The exact dimensions are 14,5 cm by 19 cm and 2,5 cm thick, and it weighs ca. 750 grams. This 384 pages could be classified as a cross between a magazine and a soft-bound book. And it is almost sold out.
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Me and My Penis
I think most of them are a waste of trees. On the one hand you have all of these faux fashion magazines which are about gaining access and on the other you have the "Me and My Penis" magazines which are all about who the editor has slept with or wants to sleep with or pretends to have slept with.
Quote by CS Leigh.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 01.07.2010
I think most of them are a waste of trees. On the one hand you have all of these faux fashion magazines which are about gaining access and on the other you have the "Me and My Penis" magazines which are all about who the editor has slept with or wants to sleep with or pretends to have slept with.
Read interview here.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Afterall Books
Afterall is a research and publishing organisation based in London. Founded in 1998 by Charles Esche and Mark Lewis at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Afterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 21.06.2010
Afterall is a research and publishing organisation based in London. Founded in 1998 by Charles Esche and Mark Lewis at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Afterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context.
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What is Fillip?
Fillip is a publication of art, culture and ideas released three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Find out more about the latest issue Fillip No. 11.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 14.06.2010
Fillip is a publication of art, culture and ideas released three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Find out more about the latest issue Fillip No. 11.
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PWR an irregular Publication
PWR Paper is a limited to 1000 pieces poster tabloid curated by Hanna Terese and Rasmus Svensson along with contributors John Divola, Ignace Wouters, Arran Ridley, Daniel Swan, Breena Murphy and many others.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Wednesday, 09.06.2010
PWR Paper is a limited to 1000 pieces poster tabloid curated by Hanna Terese and Rasmus Svensson along with contributors John Divola, Ignace Wouters, Arran Ridley, Daniel Swan, Breena Murphy and many others.
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Curating and the
Educational Turn
Well produced and unadorned in its design, this book is for any one interested in curating or maintaining an art practice. It is compiled with tweny-seven critical essays describing the phenomenon and representing an extremely helpful tool for anyone interested in the future of curatorship and exhibitions. Hans Ulrich Obrist describes the book as a huge potential for art institutions to be laboratories and places of knowledge production.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Tuesday, 01.06.2010
Well produced and unadorned in its design, this book is for any one interested in curating or maintaining an art practice. It is compiled with tweny-seven critical essays describing the phenomenon and representing an extremely helpful tool for anyone interested in the future of curatorship and exhibitions. Hans Ulrich Obrist describes the book as a huge potential for art institutions to be laboratories and places of knowledge production.
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Thursday, 27.05.2010
Industrie Magazine claims to be the first and only media title dedicated to presenting an independent, in-depth look at the fashion industry, going behind the scenes to chronicle the personalities, stories and defining moments in the world of fashion.
Fresh from the press by Erik Torstensson and Jens Grede, of the Saturday-Group, Industrie aims to shift focus away from current collections and trends and provide a considered insight into the culture of fashion. Industrie documents the individuals who influence fashion and critically examines the ideas which shape it.
More information to follow soon.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Zineswap
Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people
can swap their zines with one-another. And if you are not sure what a zine is then check this.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Archigram Archival Project
More than 200 Projects are included in the Archigram Archival Project. The AAP uses the group’s mainly chronological numbering system and includes everything given an Archigram project number. This comprises projects done by members before they met, the Archigram magazines (grouped together at no. 100), the projects done by Archigram as a group between 1961 and 1974, and some later projects.
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Tate Etc Issue 19
From essays to interviews, from ancient Tate archives to cutting edge studio work, Tate Etc. follows the work creating the most interesting debate, and explores its context, history and meaning. Within these features, we blend the historic, the modern and the contemporary to show that art does not exist in a vacuum, but is rooted in many traditions.
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Open Library
One web page for every book? Ever wanted to play librarian? If you love books, why not help build a library?
Now on Open Library.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 06.05.2010
Unlimited, open, flexible, a room for imagination and experimentation, new paths of preception and artistic reflection – this is how Mini Deutschland has envisioned their temporary Pavillon 21 Mini Oper Space on the Marstallplatz, in Munich. Translated into print, this is how Germany's enfant terrible Mirko Borsche with his bunch of helpers have understood their brief, producing a rather low profile, high content pamphlet-like guide.
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Posada Art Books
Located in the heart of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, you can find "Posada Art Books" a bookstore specialized in new and antiquarian books on visual arts in all languages. Almost all subjects are covered, including architecture, photography and applied arts. The bookstore stocks other kinds of printed matter including studies, artist's monographs, exhibition catalogues and serials.
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Design and Truth by Robert Grudin
“If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related ... to the getting or abusing of power.”
A must-read book.
Review here.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 19.04.2010
The /5 collection of books is intended to showcase the work of various artists. It aims to transmit the new dimensions of expression that flow from their hands. The work of five artists who form part of the whole Project is presented in each series. The purpose of the collection is to support up-and-coming artists and at the same time contribute to the dissemination of cutting-edge, affordable, nominally priced art.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Friday, 16.04.2010
Meet Frank Hülsbömer, German photographer who has made a trademark for himself by delivering scientific, artistic, conceptual minimalism art to various international magazines – a creative director's dream come true, he is.
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The Panda People and Other Works
A book by Henrik Vibskov
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Wednesday, 14.04.2010
The jack-of-all-trades, here comes Vibskov again with yet another venture into the publishing realm. Published by Jap Sam Books.
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The jack-of-all-trades, here comes Vibskov again with yet another venture into the publishing realm. Published by Jap Sam Books. Printed on uncoated Paper. Find more close ups here. |
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The Pulitzer Prize 2010
The Pulitzer Prize is an American award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. Established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer it is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir".
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Monday, 12.04.2010
Fiction – Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
Drama – Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
History – Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
Biography – The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry – Versed by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
General Nonfiction – The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)
Music – Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 08.04.2010
Tokyo – Moloch und Metropole, ein faszinierender Ort, an dem Trends gesetzt werden und unkonventionelle Ideen entstehen. Life – das Leben in dieser Megacity: ihr Design und ihre Kunst beeinflussen mittlerweile den Alltag auf der ganzen Welt. Style – es werden 80 berühmte und einflussreiche, aber auch junge und aufstrebende Künstler, Architekten, Designer, Modeschöpfer, Fotografen und Regisseure vorgestellt, die das Bild unserer Welt gestalten und verändern.
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Charles and Ray Eames Memory Game
Parents may fancy buying this version of Memory for their youngsters but the Eames disciples would rather not. Ravensburger has tried to bring back design classics and Memory together. We cherish the idea but must admit that the execution of the board game leaves room for wishes and improvement.
Books, Magazines, Fanzines
Thursday, 08.04.2010
Parents may fancy buying this version of Memory for their youngsters but the Eames disciples would rather not. Ravensburger has tried to bring back design classics and Memory together. We cherish the idea but must admit that the execution of the board game leaves room for wishes and improvement.
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