Marcus Bösch wrote a great text about the future of print and GuteSeiten for Deutsche Welle (sorry, german only): “Lang lebe das bedruckte Papier: Die New York Times wird immer dünner. Die Zeitungslandschaft immer karger. Immer weniger Menschen lesen Nachrichten auf Papier. Komisch, dass junge Kreative weltweit trotzdem munter immer neue Magazine basteln.”
Amazing idea: Abe’s Penny is a new magazine in postcard form. “Each issue is a series of four postcards featuring a narrative that unfolds in sequence, one part per week. The narrative is a combination of photographs and text, in the format of a traditional postcard. Collectible and temporal, the cards vary each month, with a different artist and writer collaborating on each issue.” Via
Peeping Tom was an award-winning British small press magazine in the 1990s, founded by David Bell and Stuart Hughes, and specialised in dark fantasy and horror - now a french collective arround Caroline Niémant and Stéphane Blanc refounded a new Peeping Tom magazine which aim is to promote emerging artists. And for this first issue Peeping Tom scouted talents through an unconventional open call for submissions, based on the traditional system of chain of letter: in order to be eligible, aside from being part of the Berlin art scene (the first publication dedicates itself to the great art community of Berlin), each applicant needed to forward the open call to one or several Berlin artists he (she) greatly admires. This system of chain letters placed each participant in the position of a curator/editor by proposing one or several artists. Peeping Tom believes that artists are the most exciting curators and wanted them to take part of the process of creation of this magazine. In total, Peeping Tom received more than 220 submissions and selected 53 artists to be part of this first publication. Get all details, see more pictures and participating artists and/or buy your copy of this amazing new magazine here.
If you are into graphic design, illustration or typography - it´s christmas again! The new Slanted magazine just arrived and is again packed (196 pages!) with stunning new works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), Pixelgarten (Frankfurt), Maxime Buechi (Lausanne), Ina Saltz (New York), Erwin K. Bauer (Vienna), Sangho Park (Stuttgart) and many others. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with Sabrina Tibourtine, Christoph Dunst, Sipho Mabona, Gemma O’Brien and Mr. David Carson. Besides a portrait of “Buchstabenmuseum Berlin”, the Slanted Magazine introduces numerous 2d3d-works of professionals and students (Ebon Heath, Yulia Brodskaya, pleaseletmedesign, MWM Graphics). The new issue “2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. Get all details, see more pictures and buy your copy for 12 Euro here.
der:die:das: is a brandnew monothematic magazine made in Zurich, which examines items, objects and various “things” from everyday life, trying to get to the bottom of their meaning to newly orchestrate them. der:die:das: calls for the new in everyday life and the ordinary in the novel and assembles the various perceptions of different disciplines in art and design by various artists, designers and authors in one magazine. According to the alphabet the things will be selected, dissected and analysed. The first issue started with the letter A for apple. Contributing artists are Sasha Haettenschweiler, Zürich; Saša Kohler, Basel; Sandi Kozjek, Zürich; Katharina Rippstein, Zürich; Shirana Shahbazi, Zürich; contributing photographers are Véronique Hoegger, Zürich and Flurina Rothenberger, Zürich; and the authors are Valérie Knoll, Zürich; Petra Pan, Berlin/Germany; Aline Rinderer, Basel. See more details, pictures or/and buy your copy here.
I´ve been invited to Frankfurt - to participate at a panel/party/discussion called “Medienmittwoch“. And it was really great - i´ve met the guys behind the TV-magazine concept “Programm” - a magazine about television and culture - still looking for a publishers and Patricia Gebhart from “Ramp” - a magazine about “car culture”. Like for our first show in Hamburg i brought some magazines from our growing GuteSeiten-archive - and the people there enjoyed them so much that they even stole magazines. The most favorite stolen mags are: Turbochainsaw #4, Umlaut #5, Otaku Play and Gudberg #6. Just for the next time, dear GuteSeiten-Lounge-lovers, you can also order them here without risk - or rent them at our Zinothek. But i really had a fun time in Frankfurt and hope to see you all again soon - our next lounge will come for sure.
Just arrived: um[laut] magazin #5, a small but great magazine from Cologne, about political and young artists - mostly featuring “art, photography, streetart, literature and projects of ambitious, young and creative artists and there way of seeing the world.” The new issue includes work by Slinkachu (the new “Little People” serie - photography), Ute C. Latzke (”Got lost out there” - artwork), Tassilo Sturm (”Findet mich das Glück?” - Installation), Frederic Lezmi (”Arabian Prospects” - photography). See more details and pictures - and order your copy for only 5 Euro here.
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