Great cover idea: A double cover - but for two different magazines. Geoff McFetridge’s artwork for Huck Magazine and Little White Lies. Via

The Visualisation Magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the complex, such as: Data Visualisations, Information Graphics. Featuring: Theo Deutinger Architects, Pitch Interactive, Bradford Paley, Julien Bayle, Telegeography, Tom Gauld, Zero Per Zero, Quentin Delobel, Peter Crnokrak many more… Via Mail, thanks Pedro!

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.

Holly Palmer: The Book Porcupine

Linus Svärm: Piniwini

Sebastian Errazuriz: Repisa N5

And many thanks also to Anke and Kevin who found even these two nice bookshelves-blogs: “Books At Home” and “Bookcase Porn“.

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.

The new Otaku magazine just arrived yesterday from Romania (by the way: our first magazine from Romania!) – Otaku is a lovely magazine about visual art, strongly influenced by japanese culture. They feature articles about graphic design, comic strips, illustration, painting, design, fashion, video, toys and accessories. And this issue comes also with an interactive DVD (includes 8-bit artists from around the world: Dubmood (FR), Graffiti Monsters (USA), Ikuma (SG), Jellica (UK), Kaseo (JP), Kplecraft (JP), Makunouchi Bento (RO), minus (RO), Moloh (RO), Nordloef (SE), Nullsleep (USA), Peter Swimm (USA), Pixelh8 (UK), Random (SE), she (SE), Sidabitball (FR), USK (JP); Video performances from Blip Festival NYC (8GB (AR), 6955 (JP), Alex Mauer (USA), Bit Shifter (USA), Blasterhead (JP), B.S.K. (JP), Bubblyfish (USA), Coova (JP), Covox (SE), Glomag (USA), Kaseo (JP), Markus Schrodt (AT), minus (RO), minusbaby (USA), Neil Voss (USA), Nullsleep (USA), Postal_M@rket (IT), Saitone (JP), Saskrotch (USA), The Depreciation Guild (USA), YMCK (JP) and some trailers from these indie games: Blueberry Garden, Cletus Clay, Cortex Command, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dyson, Feist, Machinarium, Mightier, Osmos, Retro/Grade, Snapshot, Walkie Tonky, World Of Goo) – and a New York Poster from EbOY. Limited to 1000 issues – get more pictures and information about our hot new friend from Romania and/or order your issue here.

Designboom has a nice feature about the making process of the “papier” bags from german designer Saskia Diez. “The different-size travelling bags are made of DuPont™Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time robust. A silk-screen printing technique was used on the surface of the material. the bags are light, waterproof, recyclable and tear proof.”