Editorial All Stars

Tomorrow is a great day in the making.
St Brides still have tickets available for a day of talks from some great magazine gurus.

‘Magazines are Dead! Long Live the Magazine!‘

For £60 (£35 concessions) you could hear an all star cast talk about their considerable experience in the magazine industry. There are many many visual treats in store.

10:30 Paul Rennie: Projecting the New Elizabethans: magazine art direction in 1950s Britain
11:00 Simon Esterson: Lifestyle and Letraset: the British magazine landscape 1960-2000
12:00 Jeremy Leslie: State of the art
12:45 William Owen: New names please
1:30 Lunch
2:30 Luke Hayman: The restoration of New York magazine
3:15 Richard Spencer Powell: Monocle magazine
4:00 Tea & coffee
4:15 Sara Horrocks, Art Director, New Projects, EMAP
4:45 Tony Chambers, editor-in-chief, Wallpaper*


I think we should all take note of 4pm in particular. There might even be biscuits

Paradis

I encountered this magazine while doing the very nerdy thing of looking at a photographers credits, and found that Thomas Lenthal has setup a new magazine as well as continuing his role as Creative Director at Numero.

Paradis has had a set of mixed reviews here in the office, some said that its a really boring piece of magazine design and journalism mixed with pornography.
I was quite shocked at this reaction. For me the magazine is trying to mix two different kinds of content that you wouldn't usually see together.
In Paradis long articles by respected writers, and interviews with non celebrities such as the co-discoverer of DNA structure and the editor of the Economist are punctuated by nude photography by the likes of Jurgen Teller and Sølve Sundsbø.

Thomas Lenthal spoke to Herald Tribune early last year and said that he wanted to make something French and 70's; I think he's pretty close.

Idea Magazine

The best thing about Idea Magazine is that it's only ever about one subject from cover to cover. When you get one on a subject you're interested in, it's a pure joy. There are pages of generous reproductions, of great Letterpress books all beautifully laid out with some great close up details. Well worth every penny if you're interested in Hot metal.

Design+Design

Another Dieter Rams homage yet again. A combination of a Flickr pool and Erik's contentious argument that Jonathan Ive is actually a droid controlled by Dieter Rams brought us, here at Things to Look At, to think once again how great the covers of the Braun Magazine are. You can even spend more of that January cash by buying a few here or simply drool over this collection.

Portfolio 9x5 Konkret

Here is a great place to spend your extra January cash.