The next zine exhibition (and open call) is on its way: “Kaugummi Books announces an open call for artists and publishing houses producing zines and artists books focusing on contemporary drawings and photography. The selection will be shown in may and june 2010 in Rennes - France. This exhibition is called Kaugummi & Friends and is curated by Bartolomé Sanson for Kaugummi Books. This exhibition is part of the ninth edition of Periscopages festival and will be shown in other galleries later this year. A list with each contributor’s name and contact will be available for the public. Feel free to drop a line to wearekaugummi [at] gmail [dot] com if you have any question. Send your zine to: Kaugummi, 8a allée pierre tumpoine, 35000 Rennes, France; Deadline : 05/05/2010″
TIDE TV hat einen Beitrag über GuteSeiten gedreht! Tausend Dank, Sarah!
San Francisco Panorama is an upcoming 300-plus-page, single-edition newspaper from McSweeney’s, the indie publishing house founded by author Dave Eggers. “The Panorama may be the biggest, most creative and famously bylined edition of a newspaper ever printed,” says Ward Bushee, San Francisco Chronicle editor
* The Gentlewoman: “The launch issue invokes a number of famous women in its editorial, including Germaine Greer, Patty Hearst, Janet Jackson and Olga Korbut, as it describes an optimistic outlook focused on the remarkable and contemporary rather than celebrity.” Via
* Monu - a magazine on urbanism is a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics
* Junk Jet n°3 asked for fluxing architectures, boogie, buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, and temporary eternities
* Dorade magazine: Brilliant and sinuous, collector of photographic discoveries and forms of criticism, Dorade is an artistic periodical where mermaids admit to their slightly fishy odour
* Grey a new fashion magazine
* Plug & Play: Visionaire #57. For the smart partner issue, Visionaire is going electric. The artwork features a calendar with 365 works of art selected by 52 curators and art collectors that plugs into the wall using a smart fortwo-shaped plug
* Waterfall Magazine is a beautifully laid out art magazine based in Taiwan. Via
* The young photographer from Moscow Anna Yausheva did a great looking zine
* Hunter and Cook is a fantastic quarterly arts magazine from Toronto, Canada. Via
* A Guide Magazine: This guide-within-magazine format will present a different city from a characteristic perspective with every edition.
* 80*81: What happened? A retrovisionary research by Christopher Roth and Georg
* ilinx, new german magazine about cultural studies
This nice trophy for Der Wedding was handmade by Anna Wentzel, thanks!
The jury of our first award (right to left): Ale Dumbsky (Radar), Heike Grebin (HAW), Karsten Henning (ART) and (not in the picture) Florian Waldvogel (Kunstverein Hamburg).
And the lucky winners: Chiefeditor and Publisher Julia Boeck and Axel Völcker from the Berlin-based magazine Der Wedding!
Last friday we celebrated the first GuteSeiten-Award in Hamburg – in form of a Live-Magazin (inspired by the great Pop-Up Magazine from New York). We invited journalists (from food, music to sex), photographers and artists to have a journalistic live experience. Around 400 people joined us – and we had a great time (even a lot of things were a bit chaotic, but hey, it was an experiment and the first time – and we had no money). At the end our jury presented the winner of the first GuteSeiten-Award: Der Wedding, a monothematic annual publication based on the ordinary and everyday life in the urban neighbourhood, from Berlin. Besides the handmade trophy the winner got also a professional magazine consulting from the Deutsche Presse Vertrieb. The jury gave also a honoray mention to: Schnitzel from Cologne, Edit, a literature magazine from Leipzig and the porn mag for girls: Jungsheft from Cologne. Congratulations! And thanks to everybody that made this evening possible, we’re looking forward to party with you again next year! Pictures by Felix Rettberg, see more impressions here, here and here and a video here.
Blog and press echo:
– PAGE ONLINE: 9.3.
– derFreitag: 10.3
– Sommer in Hamburg: 8.3.
– rebel:art: 8.3
– Superlative: 9.3
– Balkon & Garten: 4.3.
– Lonely people talk a lot: 6.3.
– DerWedding: 9.3.
- Tide TV (Coming soon)
“Friday the 16th of April sees the opening of O.K. Festival: A unique three-day event entirely devoted to the independent magazine. The programme features an exposition of special magazines and workshops by renowned magazine designers, as well as debates on various topics, festivities and interesting encounters.
The event takes place at Arnhem and continues a series of independent magazine festivals previously held in Luxemburg, Barcelona and Tokyo. In the wake of the larger publishing houses an increasing number of magazines are being issued independently. Thousands of independent magazines exist worldwide, with millions of readers. Their magazines are usually spread in limited edition and behind them is an active new scene of magazine design. During the O.K. festival the most striking examples will be gathered in an exhibition. There will be room for Dutch art, design and architecture magazines like ‘Mister Motley’ and ‘Items en Archis’, but also for ‘artzines’ in particular, like the extremely slim ‘One Page Magazine’ from the Netherlands, the Spanish art magazine ‘La Más Bella’, which takes on a marvelously original form for every new issue (ranging from a candy machine to a wallet), the Swiss ‘Nimes’, the Finnish ‘A4 Casino’, the South African music magazine ‘BruceLee’, the English magazine slash diary ‘Karen’ and periodicals like ‘Yummy’ and ‘Meat Magazine’, the lifestyle glossy for carnivores.
Creative director William van Giessen sees the independent magazine as an answer to the uniformity of the mass media: “The printed media are falling victim to increasingly strict formats. Sales figures reign. In the gaping hole they leave behind the independent magazine manifests itself. Everything that is excluded by the mainstream media finds its place here. In this sense, the independent magazine offers a sanctuary to designers, illustrators and writers. It is at times defiant and headstrong but always brimming with energy and playfulness. Readers from across the world are increasingly drawn to its versatility, originality and creativity. Whereas the printed media are trying to come to terms with diminishing advertising revenues, the independent magazine thrives. It achieves this by embracing the new media and ‘social networking’, phenomena that large publishers are still struggling to understand.” (From the press release) Via: Mail
