Has anyone ordered a copy of this new magazine, called Stella, yet? …it looks so nice…
Stella..."Stella magazine is a new bi-annual magazine for women. The magazine features women who are interesting because of what they do and think rather than because of how they look or how big a wardrobe they’ve got. " ... more on their blog.
During my trip to the Netherlands I found out about two very nice press releases for Bloesem…yeahhh…first was a small mentioning in one of the best Dutch newspapers, nrc.next … telling it's readers that reading Bloesem will bring you to nice houses and shops all ver the world 🙂
You might wonder why I am showing you the image above…well Jessica Nielsen was so kind to send me a copy of this issue and added some of her fantastic postcards, thanks! you can buy them here…
…and the second release was this great mentioning in the beautiful Dutch lifestyle
magazine, ariadne at home. The lovely Maartje Mastboom...a great stylist
herself did a nice write-up about finding inspiration online. Together
with BlackEiffel, Design*sponge, FabulousFifi and more Bloesem got some nice apreasel…thank you Maartje!
We’ve just gotten word via our sister blog Agency Spy that Boards, the commercial production magazine, has closed its doors after ten years of operations. Said the staffer there who sent over word, “A sad day for all of us here at Boards.” The magazine’s Twitter feed confirmed the news: “R.I.P. @boardsmag. For reals. Shocker!” and “Thanks for the outpouring of support. Keep [in] touch with all of us.” A sad day indeed, particularly in losing one of our primary daily reads for keeping up with commercials and the people who make them.
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Hot off the presses and just plain hot is the special “Born in Brazil” June issue of Wallpaper*, which will be launched today with a bash at New York’s Espasso, the specialist Brazilian contemporary furniture gallery. Following last year’s “Made in China” issue, “Born in Brazil” was produced with the help of a temporary Wallpaper* HQ in Rio and São Paulo (offices that can’t have been to difficult to staff up with winter-weary Londoners). The magazine makes clear that Brazil has more to offer than beaches and superior flip-flops: think massive offshore oil reserves, the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics, and of course, the Campana brothers. Wallpaper* set out to create a portrait of a country at a moment of transition and profiled stars including architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, chef Alex Atala, and musician and actor Seu Jorge. Subscribers can feast their eyes on a special cover (above) designed by artist Vik Muniz. “Brazil is the most exciting country on earth,” says editor-in-chief Tony Chambers, “And Wallpaper* was there, en masse, to capture this extraordinary country at an extraordinary moment of transition.”
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While Architectural Record is flying high this week with their new iPad/iPhone availability, they’ve also been handed a bit of bad news. Their longtime designation as the American Institute of Architects‘ official magazine has now left them, with the AIA’s announcement that they’ve partnered with the publisher/media group Hanley Wood, which in turn makes their Architect the magazine that will be receiving the organization’s seal of approval. So for you AIA members, consider that your explanation when your free issues of A.R. stop arriving and this strange new glossy with a somewhat similar name shows up in your mail slot. Be not afraid, timid architects — here’s a bit about what members are going to get out of the new deal:
Under the new partnership agreement, AIA members will receive four Hanley Wood publications as a benefit of membership. Hanley Wood’s ARCHITECT becomes the official magazine of the AIA. It will feature exclusive coverage of all AIA programs, and initiatives, including AIA Knowledge Communities, State and Local AIA Chapter activities, and efforts that involve individual members, with an increased focus on three primary areas-design, business, and technology. The magazine will showcase design and design excellence wherever it is evident.
Members will also receive digital editions of Hanley Wood titles residential architect, EcoHome and Eco-Structure, including full access to their respective web sites. Each of these magazines will provide AIA members with the information they need to take their practice — or careers — to the next level through news, case studies, and research on essential sustainability practices and products as well as a niche focus on residential design, important to a large number of AIA members.
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We could be wrong, but we believe with this being announced this week, Architectural Record is the first architecture magazine to make the touchy-feely transition over to the iPad. They’ve partnered with the online distributor Zinio, who will be helping them port each issue from here on out onto all of Apple‘s devices, as well as onto desktops. While maybe not as flashy and interactive as some of Conde Nast‘s high profile releases, there’s still that page flipping we’re all fans of and the ability to send pieces along by email and social apps. You can play around with their latest issue here, sans-subscription. Here’s a bit from the announcement:
“Architectural Record‘s audience is digitally savvy and architects are using iPhones and iPads,” said Robert Ivy, FAIA, vice president and editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction and editor-in-chief of Architectural Record.
“We are proud to become the first business-to-business magazine to be available on the iPad,” he said. “We are excited to be able to offer these new formats, an important step in our continued commitment to applying the latest digital innovations for our customers.”
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48 Hour Magazine is out with their first publication appropriately named ‘Hustle’. The creatives behind the experiment explain, “From noon on May 7th through noon on the 9th, a team circled up around the original Rolling Stone conference table in Mother Jones’ offices to transform 1,502 submissions from around the world into a chorus of voices, all harmonizing around the same theme: hustle. 48 Hour Magazine features 60 pages of writers and artists from your favorite magazines sharing space with previously unpublished new talent, shaped by some of the best editors in the business.”
For a peak click here.
So what did you do this weekend? Anything productive? Anything creative? Whatever satisfying thing you achieved, whether it was mowing the lawn, painting a wall or baking some bread, it’s hard to beat the sheer audaciousness of the bright young media things in San Francisco who turned a magazine around in 48 hours, resulting in the inspired 48 Hour Magazine.
Yup, just in case you haven’t heard, i.e. if you’re not on Twitter, the concept of a working weekend was taken to new levels over the past few days by the 48 Hour Magazine team, who came up with what they described as “a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media’s old limits.” Which is to say that they decided to push all previously understood publishing boundaries and attempted to “write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.”
The great news is their experiment worked! In fact it more than worked, it was an outrageous success, and I say that without having even seen the magazine yet. But if you’ve been following the progress of 48 Hour Magazine, you will know that the energy, enthusiasm and community bonding the idea provoked in writers, photographers and illustrators around the world was awe-inspiring.
For all those creatives who’ve been understandably down on traditional media and the publishing world of late, this was the loudest wake up call of their lives. In the 10 days before kick off, over 6,000 people signed up to take part the 48 Hour Magazine experiment and during the production time the editorial team received 1,502 submissions. That’s a lot of people crafting and creating for this unpredictable and unprecedented concept of a 48 hour magazine.
The energy, experienced variously through their Twitter, Ustream and Blog was infectious and I, along with the other 1,501 crazy kids who submitted, was swept up in the creative possibilities of what new media technologies can produce.
48 Hour Magazine’s greatest triumph is that it motivated thousands of people to create something original, without knowing whether or not it would be used, just for the pure unbridled sense of joy, fun and pumping adrenalin that comes from being under a tight deadline and in the race.
The audacious 48 Hour Magazine editors Heather Champ, Dylan Fareed, Mat Honan, Alexis Madrigal, Derek Powazek, Sarah Rich, Joe Brown plus thousands of contributors made it happen. This informative interview with Gizmodo reveals the staff’s process in designing Issue Zero, aptly themed Hustle.
48 Hour Magazine is available from MagCloud. All the contributors and info about the magazine are available on the blog.
Production photos by Heather Champ
Earlier this week, Time celebrated its annual selection of the 100 most influential people in the world with a gala in New York, and while we’re suspicious of any list that includes both Ashton Kutcher and Amartya Sen, we enjoy the logistical wonder that is the Time 100 double issue. The massive editorial effort, led by assistant managing editor Radhika Jones, commissions a diverse group of notable figures—many of them Time 100 alumna—to write a paragraph or two about the chosen influencers. Yes, this strategy can result in a Ted Nugent-penned paean to Sarah Palin, who he would “be proud to share a moose-barbecue campfire with” provided that he can shoot the moose, and Palin’s own ode to Glenn Beck (“America’s professor of common sense”), but it also gives us Ruth Reichl on David Chang (“Whipped tofu with sea urchins and tapioca? Bring it on!”) and sphere-headed prophet and monkey newsman Karl Pilkington on Ricky Gervais (“He opens the locks on toilet doors with a coin when I’m using them”).
Time tapped Shepard Fairey to muse on the elusive Banksy, who created this self-portrait for the magazine. “He has a gift: an ability to make almost anyone very uncomfortable,” writes Fairey. “He doesn’t ignore boundaries: he crosses them to prove their irrelevance.” Ryan Pfluger‘s elegant full-bleed photo of Marc Jacobs, standing pensively beside his desk (on which sits a Philippe Starck for Flos gun lamp) offsets Victoria Beckham‘s less than memorable prose (“You can always tell when someone is wearing Marc Jacobs,” she writes, wrong-headedly, considering the designer’s astonishingly diverse output). Meanwhile, Donna Karan discusses Zaha Hadid—who is grouped with the thinkers, not the artists—and compares her buildings to a gust of wind: “organic, forceful, and utterly natural.” Our favorite matchup? Steve Jobs as exalted by Apple fan Jeff Koons, who brings his usual up-with-people verve while invoking a rival operating system. Writes Koons, “The tools [Jobs] has given us, from the Macs at my studio to the iPhone in my pocket, are like clean new windows, fitting between our selves and our work elegantly, naturally, and unobtrusively.”
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Who’s following in the footsteps of past Wallpaper* cover designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Philippe Starck, and Anish Kapoor? You. The magazine is offering readers the opportunity to design their own unique cover of the August issue, which will be devoted to the handmade. It’s as easy as registering here before May 17 to gain access (later this month) to the online cover-making application, a virtual buffet of images, graphics, and patterns contributed by the likes of James Joyce, Nigel Robinson, and Anthony Burrill. After you’ve scaled, rotated, colored, and tweaked to your heart’s delight on the front, turn your attention to the back cover, where media partner Rolex is offering nine ad options. Once you’ve finished your stint as guest art director, Wallpaper* will get to work realizing your vision. Subscribers will receive their customized issues in early July. No subscription? No problem. Register to learn how you can order a single bespoke issue. Meanwhile, we’re just as excited about what will be between the covers of the August Wallpaper*: recently commissioned design projects that were exhibited in the Brioni house at last month’s Milan Furniture Fair.
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