“do you read me? - Magazine und Lektüre der Gegenwart“, Auguststrasse 28, Berlin
“Motto Berlin Store“, Skalitzerstr. 68, Berlin
“Pro qm - thematische Buchhandlung zu Stadt, Politik, Pop, Ökonomiekritik, Architektur, Design, Kunst & Theorie“, Almstadtstraße 48-50, Berlin
If you´re in Berlin make sure not to miss these three excellent magazines and book stores. You won´t need to go to other places, you´ll find everything there for sure (only some fanzines are missing, check out for more indy-stuff Neurotitan and Staalplaat).
Paperwarrior at the Papertoy Mag
* Really great project: at the Zinelibrary you´ll find hundreds of radical zines and books ready to print. Banksys “Wall and Piece” or “banging your head against a brick wall“, and also amazing manuals of billboard subversion (like “Smashing the Image Factory“), “Art and Science of Billboard Improvement” and “How to make adverts better“. Via
* Wonderland Magazine: a young architects network initiated by a group of former Berlagers, is now offering their Wonderland Magazine as a free PDF download. Via
* New Candy magazine is also ready to download: Candy was launched June 2005 to showcase Irish creativity alongside international equivalents to a worldwide audience.
* And also the new Destructed PDF-mag, for art and design, is ready to download.
* Your Acrobat is still not satisfied? You need more PDF magazines? Check out pdf-mags - the website for PDF lovers!
Save the date: Sunday, 3rd May 2009, The Rag Factory, London: “The London Zine Symposium is a annual event where people interested in zines, small-press, comics and / or radical culture can get together, buy or sell zines and share ideas with each other. The idea is to build a stronger DIY network and community by having people meet up, chat, maybe participate in a workshop or two but definitely have a good time.” Via
The winner of this year´s Gruner + Jahr creative award (Grüne Wiese) has been announced this week: The first place goes to “BEEF!” - a cooking/lifestyle magazine for men. Btw: The winner from the last competition is “Dogs” - a lifestyle magazine for doglovers. “BEEF!” is about food, kitchen, adventures, technique, gadgets - and a lot of meat. The second place goes to an online project (“My-next-challenge.de”), a personal Online-Coaching for Marathon/Triathlon. And the third place goes to “Businesspunk” - a business magazine concept for alpha animals; the claim was something like “work hard, party hard”, target group were young and trendy trainees, bankers and consultants, on the search for girls, money and coke. Ok, the concept was really ironic, but wasn`t this exactly the attitude of bankers that were responsable for the worldwide financial collaps?
Besides this big corporate award, there are some individuals working on some promising new concepts. For example: Raban Ruddigkeit und Jan Peter are working on a new magazine called “MGZN” - they want to collect the best textes from other magazines and newspapers - and create a “magazine of the magazines”. After 1000 orders they`ll start to produce Mgzn.
And Martin Schmitz Kuhl, Andrea Ruhland and Christian Sälzer are working on a new television and culture magazine: “PROGRAMM”. And yes, it´s true: Not everything on TV is shit - but all TV-magazines are looking like shit. The dummy is online and looks really great - now they are waiting to be discovered by a major publishing house.
