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IT’S AN APP

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Dear Friends,
while we’re busy promoting our current issue as well as already putting the finishing touches to our next, we have not forgotten that we still have a promise to keep: on the back cover of our issue #26 featuring Manfred Eicher of ECM Records, we hinted at an app for iPad ‘coming soon’. Soon [...]

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GIRL POWER

Monday, March 28, 2011

As a little postscript, our friends at Koi Klub write a lot these days about Japan and the effects of the earthquake, from a very personal point of view and best of all, in Japanese and English. For instance, this curious tidbit that a blog by a 15 year old girl has become very popular [...]

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THINK QUARTERLY WITH GOOGLE

Friday, March 25, 2011

Right aftter making into the news and seeing its Google Books agreement with publishers cancelled by a US court, Google discretly launches a new magazine, expected by most to be Google’s first big move into the media and publishing world. Nevertheless, ‘Think Quarterly‘ is not intended to be a print magazine, neither is it supposed [...]

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ARCHIZINES

Saturday, March 12, 2011

As online forums for printed matter abound, here’s a nice archive of a slightly different kind: Archizines is run by Elias Redstone of London’s renowned Architecture Foundation and presents titles from all over the word that deal with, obviously, architecture. With dozens and dozens of magazines dedicated to the genre, many of which we’ve never [...]

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MAGAZINE MARATHON

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

In the meantime, over at MagCulture, one of our favourite magazine blogs, a marathon of a different kind is currently taking place in real-time: to celebrate its fifth anniversary, they’re working their way through a pile of new and independent magazines, by the hour. 24 magazines in 24 hours, that is. The curious thing is, [...]

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LESSONS IN DESIGN: PROJECT THIRTY-THREE

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ah, record covers… don’t you miss them in times of torrents and iTunes? There should be entire sites dedicated to preserving the fine art of record sleeve design, and in fact there are: Project Thirty-Three is a great blog by Seattle-based record store Jive Time dedicated entirely to, as they put it, ‘circles and dots [...]

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VIEWING IN PRIVATE

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Ever wanted to get into art collecting but didn’t know where to start? Wanted to pick up a Warhol for the living room but couldn’t find one in the local gallery? The presently-running VIP Art Fair might be just what you’ve been waiting for. VIP in this case stands for ‘viewing in private’. It’s the [...]

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THE YEAR IN PRINT

Thursday, December 30, 2010

In case you happen to be a magazine addict like us, there is a nice little round-up of the year over at magCulture, one of our favourite print blogs, with an accurate reflection on this much-loved medium experiencing its own digital revolution, once again. And even more looking back from a slightly more American perspective [...]

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Real Wall Post

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

By embedding USB-sticks into walls Aram Bartholl started an anonymous offline peer-to-peer network. Many of you may still remember the book exchange shelves of pre-internet hostels, or even came across Bücherwald a paper based ancestor of Bartholl’s digital Dead Drops. And similar to its online predecessors posting on a real world wall is all about [...]

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DIGITAL READING SOUVENIRS?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Booktwo.org is a blog created in 2006 which aims ‘to investigate, analyse, catalogue and debate the future of literature and the publishing industry.’ Among the big fuzz, discussion and reading junk being published everywhere about the end of books and the future of literature in the digital age, I must say this is one of [...]

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