Hasta La Ideas

For the subscriber profiles in the upcoming issue, we’d love to see where you are creative — and how creative you are! Please draw, collage or otherwise illustrate your studio or workspace. Submit it along with a brief 150 word bio about yourself — include your full name, location and website url. Please note that this call is open to subscribers only.

Files should be at least 5″ wide at 300dpi and labelled with your last name. Please upload them here. Submit the bio as a text file via the dropbox or send it as an email to janine [at] uppercasemagazine [dot] com.

Submissions are due by May 17.

Space is limited, so we’ll publish the best ones in print. We’ll put together an online gallery to show all the submissions.

UPPERCASE is a media sponsor at the upcoming agIdeas conference in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s an ad I made that will be shown during the conference.

It is great that new people are discovering UPPERCASE magazine everyday! We often get requests for back issues, but issues #1 and #2 are completely sold, sorry. We do have backissues of #3 and #4 available while supplies last. I’ve added a new option in the shop where you can order #3, #4 and the current #5 which will be mailed out now in one package AND a subscription for the next four issues. (You save a bit of money this way, too.)

Despite many requests, I can’t afford to reprint backissues — and reprinting a magazine does deny the ephemeral and “of a moment” nature of a magazine. So once the print version is sold out, that’s it for the physical version. I am considering making digital versions of soldout issues available either as downloads or perhaps reinterpreted for the iPad… Although UPPERCASE’s ethos is firmly rooted in the tactile world of print and paper (long live print!), I’m proud of our content and do think it deserves a wider audience. I’m also interested in the future of publishing and see potential with the iPad for certain kinds of content delivered to specific audiences.

What do you think? Would you want a digital download of out-of-print issues? What fee would you pay? Would you read UPPERCASE on an iPad? Would you be interested in a print and iPad subscription combo? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. I’m curious!

Colin was lucky enough to be touring through New Zealand recently and look what he spotted in Mag Nation‘s Auckland location! Thanks for the picture, Colin!

I’ve sent a large batch of issue 5 to Mag Nation in Melbourne, Australia, via air freight, so those should arrive quite quickly. The magazine will be available at the onsite bookstore as part of the upcoming AG Ideas conference. “Each year in Melbourne, agIdeas presents 40 of the world’s creative leaders who share their insights with more than 10,500 designers, students and business leaders. agIdeas presents a series of events for designers who are seeking inspiration, for designers emerging in the industry to explore the possibilities of international careers in design and for companies looking to embrace design as an economic driver.” UPPERCASE is a media sponsor along with some other indie magazines.

I’ve just sent out a second renewal notice to our inaugural subscribers. If you started with the very first issue, then issue 4, with the bird on the cover, was the last issue included in the initial subscription.

This is an important time for the magazine: our inaugural subscribers represent almost a quarter of all subscribers so it is really vital that people continue to support the magazine by renewing. I’m not sure what a typical renewal rate is for a magazine, but then our magazine isn’t typical! We’re hoping for as high a renewal rate as possible since the magazine is almost entirely funded by subscriptions. From this point on, asking for renewals will become a regular necessity, along with nurturing new subscribers. Beyond the pleasure of content gathering, design and working with our collaborators, there’s certainly lots to manage! (Thanks, Jenny, for your tremendous help.)

Part of the unique quality of UPPERCASE magazine is the open dialogue I have as editor/publisher/designer with our readers. Through this blog and your emails, I’m in direct contact with many subscribers and have gotten to know you through your blogs, flickr and messages of support. You offer so much inspiration, thank you!

I hope you are all equally inspired by our quarterly publishing efforts.

{We will send you renewal notices by email when your subscription is nearing an end, but you are more than welcome to renew your subscription anytime by clicking here. We’ll add four (or eight) more issues on to your current subscription.}

Thank you!!!