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.
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.
“Scripting Green” is the theme of the new Neural: issue #33 features eco-pornography and the alt-economy, interviews with Amy Franceschini/Futurefarmers, Ether Polak, Beatriz da Costa, The Owl Project, Jacob Kirkegaard, Guerrilla Gardening and HeHe, reports on the Green Platform and the Transmediale 2009 ‘Deep North’ editon. Order your copy here.
Turbochainsaw, the great bastard illustration zine from the UK, just released its new issue “Insane”, including works &y’s (USA), Andrés Brück (Argentina), Cat Lauigan (USA), Debbie Sharples (UK), Geoffrey Kayser (France), Alexander Binder (Germany), Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (Russia), Conteleta (Spain), Mark (UK), Disco Floyd (USA), Daniel Swan (UK), Paul Dixon (UK), Rob Pybus (UK), Paul Bonnet (France), The Horror (UK), Bomba Massi (Italy). More details, more pictures and you can order your copy (there are only 150 copies) immediately for 7 Euro here.
Gudberg #06 features big names of the international street art scene like: Boxi, Dave the chimp, Miss Van, Zezao, Bronco, Herbert Baglione, Vitché, Daim, Daniel Man, Os Gemeos, Zevs, Banksy, Daniel Tagno, Mark Jenkins, Blu, Tilt, Victor Ash and Heiko Zahlmann. Gudberg is a DIN A3-magazine about art, design, illustration and photography, based in Hamburg, and available here for 5 Euro.
A new magazine project from Berlin: Aufstieg und Fall (”rise and fall”). Released the 15th june and coming quarterly in a circulation of 10 000 copies to selected bookstores and kiosks this magazine celebrates “the exciting and often tragic rise and fall of life” and “the wild roller-coaster around every corner”. Chiefeditor Iván Aránega Tortosa explains in the editorial: “Aufstieg und Fall investigates the curious human behavior and extravagant details that lie under the headlines dominating the media and the conversations in the cue of the supermarket. As the old saying goes: what goes up must come down. True, but boring. Long before the information age, Flannery O‘Connor took it a step further and wrote ‘everything that rises must converge’. Life is and will be a journey and all what we see, hear and feel along the way come together and form who we are. People come and go, trends rise and fall, ideas heave and ho and the best we can do is hold on and enjoy the ride.”
The quality of the paper creates multiple orgasms, the pictures are amazing and very emotional (Frank Kalero is documentating the indish Holi Varanasi ritual and Casper Dalhoff photographed people with psychoses), also the illustrations of Herr Müller (who did also the cover artwork) are original and a facinating new visual approach. The layout (art director is Christian Schneider) is playful and stylish, but readable; and finally the texts: they are no revolution or will win a Pulitzer Prize, but they are very amusing and diversified (Ariadne von Schirach is writing about sleeping yourself to the top, there are last words from pilots before the crash, an interview with trend scout Jozo Juric). After all a great new launch! We hope that you´ll rise to the magazine heaven and are already curious about the next issue. More details, more pictures and you can order your copy for immediately 5,80 Euro here.
Manfred Naescher just finished his third issue of Screenshots: This issue features images from the film “The French Connection” (1971) by William Friedkin. This issue of Screenshots is concerned with only one scene: The car/elevated train chase, as reflected in Gene Hackman’s face. The French Connection is a series of portraits of Hackman’s cop on the hunt. The watercolors focus exclusively on Hackman’s facial expressions, while the actual car and the context of the chase remain strictly peripheral. This issue of Screenshots is an homage to the power of acting: Free of gimmicks, quick cuts and other means of distraction, this scene shows the visceral intensity and clear focus of Gene Hackman’s art. Read more details, see more pictures and order your copy here.
Specialten-Co-Founder Fabio Sebastianelli founded together with Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne another superb DVD magazine: File #1. File is a bi-annual, large format newspaper-style magazine featuring over two hours of short films, music videos and interviews on DVD (with September, The Archive, Hearts Revolution, Rainbow Arabia, Thunderheist, Mississippi Witch, Lost & Found: Jim Lee, Planetarium of the Soul, Efterklang, Support, Cinematic Orchestra, Larytta, Dead Soul Brothers, Of Montreal, Autokratz, Roots Manuva, Eugene McGuinness, Beck, El Guincho, Soft Gun Lilly pt.1) and an exclusive limited print by Geoff McFetridge. Have a look inside - and reserve your copy for 12 Euro here.
