The Journal

 

Art & Literature, USA

Quarterly

192pp + Cover

Review Issue: Entry Number 28, 2010

Published by:  the journal inc., 168 North Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211

Background:

First Issue:  Entry Number 1, 1999

Founder & Editor-In-Chief:  Michael Nevin

The magazine operates as a personal journal, where you're out there seeing things, pulling things in and writing them down, like an open book. I feel that the gallery should function the same way—to take in whatever we feel is important at the moment.

• Started when he was 19 with two friends he met at the Montserrat College of Art
• Originally a black & white ‘zine’ for skate & snowboarding
• Moved from Vermont in 2004, to East Village space which was large, so evolved into a gallery as well
• Last year marked the 10^th anniversary edition & included the first fashion spread
• Magazine has essentially evolved with personal growth of Michael Nevin

Managing Editor:  Julia Dippelhofer

Design:  Peter Miles

• Previous issue, Entry Number 27 was premier of new design by Peter Miles [a graphic designer who has worked for Marc Jacobs & Sophia Coppola]

Previous contributors have included Helmut Lang, Juergen Teller

Inside:

Urs Fischer

Swiss contemporary artist who also did the supplement which comes with the magazine

Interview by Georg Herold

Photography by Leigh Johnson

Terry Richardson (above)

Interview by Michael Nevin

Photography by Terry Richardson

Fashion

Photography by Danko Steiner

Styling by Ana Steiner

Model Hannelore Knuts (also in Self Service magazine)

Music

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Fountain

These New Puritans - Hidden

Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

Thee Oh Sees – Dog Poison

Hot Chip – One Life Stand

Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise

Price: 37.00 NZD from Mag Nation 

Website: http://www.journalinc.com/

Rating:  3  /  5

• Advertising is quite sparse apart from the front section
• Beautiful photography, dreamy & abstract
• Content is very ‘art’, but meets its objective of being someones ‘journal’
• Very New York
• Simple layout & has a Peter Miles designed typography

AIE

Fashion & Science

Quarterly

80pp + Cover

Interior printed on pale blue stock

Review Issue: No 1. - Summer, June 2010

Published By: AIE, 37 Avenue De Paris, 78000 Versailles, France

Background:

AIE means:

• French - sound of pain, Phonetically is garlic, Japanese - means love
• 'Combined it's an all too true explanation of what love is. It hurts, yet it is tasty. And sometimes it smells.'

Goal is to have greater insight into both science & fashion

'Science & art can undeniably meet since both require imagination'

- Dr. Alan Pradel from The Museum Of Natural History

Dedicated to highlighting the talents of emerging generation of artists, photographers & designers

Founded By:

Editor-In-Chief: Alexandra Bircher-White (Fashion stylist)

Science Editor: Isabell Kruta (Paleontologist)

Art Director: Elle Azhdari

• Together they have worked in the world of art, fashion & design
• Worked on Vogue, Teen Vogue, Purple Magazine, Citizen K, The Independent & The Guardian

Distributed internationally via Tate Modern, Selfridges, Museum of Contemporary Art

Inside:

Artist Slater Bradley

Uses actors or dopplegangers to take photos of icons of his time i.e. gets people to recreate famous icons in famous pictures

Belmacz

Jeweller who uses buttons from Ashanti tribes, semi-precious stones but all with an anthropological, geological & archaeological aspect.

Heavily influenced by Ethiopian culture

Goal to create modern jewellery whilst respecting cultural heritage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philippe Levy

Photographed Kurt Cobain, Michael Stipe

We Have Band

Shoe Designer Pierre Hardy

Oscar Winning French Collective H5

Fashion Designer Gabriella Marina Gonzalez

Jaws

300 million year old brain fossil of an ancestor of the shark

Price: 21.90 NZD [Airfreight] from Mag Nation

Website: http://www.aiemagazine.com/

Rating:    4.5 / 5

‘No advertising other than from Richardson magazine, a deliberate decision to showcase creative independence & highlight the ethos of the brand’ 

• Great layout, like the use of the baby blue stock
• Quite small & concise, but leaves you wanting more
• Combination of fashion & science is new & interesting
• Typography can be hard to read
• Art direction is unique
• Cover is intriguing & disarming at the same time. Cobain looks maniacal – happy but crazy
• Well constructed, thoughtfully art directed publication with attention to detail (like blue stock) adds to subject matter with its pages

Fallen

Reviewed 07 September 2010

Australia

128pp + Cover

Tri-Annual

'Dedicated to discovering & supporting Australian creatives'

Review Issue:  5

Background:

First Issue: 1 (2009)

'Seeking the inspiring & inspired, Fallen is an agency for the collection of talents, trends, tangibles, traditions & thoughts. What unites our contributors is their addiction to their craft - a dedication and enthusiasm that drives their creativeness & personal idiom.'

Produced by a collective of journalists, stylists & photographers

Editors: Kara Allen & Lauren Whiffen

Audience:

• 18 to 39 years
• 65% Female / 45% Male (inaccurate in media kit)
• Fashion aware & design conscious
• Conscious creators as well as conscious consumers
• Style ambassadors

Circulation:

5,500 Nationally

2,000 International

Also available online

Inside:

Andrew McDonald - Cobbler & bespoke shoemaker

Darren McDonald - Photographer

Konstantina Mitas - Fashion Designer

Kid Sam - Musician

Price:  17.00 NZD [Airfreight] from Mag Nation

Website:  www.fallenmagazine.com

Rating:  4  / 5  

• Advertising very sparce (at rear of magazine), but suspect their must be some advertorial
• Advertising limited to 10% of the total content
• Simple, but effective layout
• Beautiful photography
• Different stocks add to texture, lends to tangibility

Uncut

Music & Film

130pp + Cover

Review Issue:  Take 160 - September 2010

Published By:  IPC Media Ltd, Blue Fin Building, 100 Southwark St, London

Background:

First Issue:  May 2007

• Fastest magazine launch in IPC's history - seven weeks
• IPC publish 85 title including NME
• Focus mainly on cored audiences: men, mass women & upmarket women
• IPC founded in 1963 following the merge of three major magazine publishers, who can trace origins back to early 19th Century

Founder & Editor:  Allan Jones

• Started at Melody Maker in 1974
• Famously wrote the line 'Melody Maker needs a bullet up it's arse. I'm the gun - pull the trigger' in his application letter
• Wrote about people, not just the music, so went on tour with a number of bands, including The Clash
• Became editor of Melody Maker in 1984
• When the publisher of Melody Maker instructed him to put Kajagoogoo on the cover, he chose to put The Smiths on instead
• Was a major supporter of early careers of influential bands
• Unhappy with the narrow & ungrowing view of Melody Maker, especially when he discovered Americana (starting with Lambchop)
• Melody Maker stayed focused on Britpop, Jones felt the magazine should evolve
• Melody Maker merged with NME in 2000
• Left in 1997 to create Uncut

Audience:

• Aimed at 25 to 45 men (reality is 86% men, average age 37)
• Had a radical redesign in 2006 where film features were cut back
• Originally 90K circulation, latest figures 74K

Inside:

Nick Cave: 30 Greatest Songs

Musicians, directors & members of Cave's bands reflect on their favourite songs

Interview with Grinderman

Straight To You: Uncut Complilation

Gothic & Country tracks of original artists who've inspired Nick Cave

[Featured Track: Gene Vincent - Cat Man, covered by The Birthday Party on Hee Haw EP]

Escape To The Country - 'Life After The Beatles'

Paul & Linda McCartney retreat to the West Highlands of Scotland to toil the land & Paul's post Beatles career

Price:  24.00 NZD from Mag Nation [Airfreight]

Website:  www.uncut.co.uk

Rating:  3  / 5

• Uncut & Mojo (competitor) go round in circles by featuring the same artists, but from different angles
• Do bring new artists in (once they're sure of them), to discuss older artists
• Uncut fits it's audience, younger readers would probably go online to find the information
• Still relevant for history & 'golden age' of music
• Standard layout, simple, a lot of advertising, but relevant

Semi Permanent 2010

Annual

220pp + cover

180mmx240mm

Publisher: Kinky Is Design PTY Ltd, Rushcutters Bay, NSW, Australia

Review Issue: Semi Permanent 1st Edition 2010

Background:

First Issue: Semi Permanent 2005 (Below)

Design Is Kinky

• Essentially a website / online magazine / blog which has been running for 12 years
• Also have a designer who does side projects

Semi-Permanent

• A design event which encourages creatives to network & collaborate
• Now in it's seventh year in NZ

Empty Magazine

• Reviewed in March 2010 – 4 / 5

Editors & Founders:

• Andrew Johnstone & Murray Bell are founders of Semi-Permanent

Inside:

• 2010 is the fourth year of the Semi-Permanent book, but this is the 5th Book as there were two editions in 2009
• 20,000 artworks to work to look at collating the publications
• Includes illustrators, photographers, artists, multi-media, designers
• Both professional & ‘hobbyists’

Semi Permanent 2008 (Above & Below)

Price:  $44.90 NZD from Mag Nation 

Website: www.semipermanent.com

To purchase previous issues online, visit:  Design Is Kinky

Rating:  4.75  / 5

• Something for everybody
• Beautifully presented, lots of colour & art to look at
• Amazing variation, but also cohesive
• Artist’s name at the bottom of page, along with website to find more info

I Like My Style Quarterly

Quarterly

236pp + cover

Bigger than A5, less than A4

‘the first user-generated fashion magazine’

Publisher: ilikemystyle Quarterly GmbH, SchÖnhauser Allee 149, 10435 Berlin, Germany

Review Issue: #2 The High School Of Fashion

Background:

First Issue: #1 This Could Be You! (April 2010)

Founders & Editors In Chief:

Eva Munz

• Movie Director & Writer

Adriano Sack

• Studied architecture
• Writes style column for Welt am Sonntag
• Participant of MTV’s The Real World, Berlin
• Written books, including ‘The Curious World Of Drugs & Their Friends’

Art Director: Judith Banham

• Works on BMW Magazine, Germany
• The Curious World of Drugs & Their Friends

• Ilikemystyle.net was started in 2008
• Social network site which members share fashion & style
• Post photos & comment on themselves & others
• Also a blog
• Named because ‘you have to like yourself to be liked yourself’
• Members are invited to contribute to magazine
• ‘imagine your favourite posts put together into a glossy & trendy magazine’

Cathy Horyn of NY Times blog ‘On The Runway’ says:

’ruggedly assured world view of style seekers’

‘ideas are fresh & interesting’

Inside:

Lunch Chez Ali's

• Michael Ladner [username: apollinaris] invited to artist/bartender Ali Zreik's [username: alizreik] home, where he demostrated his love of Lebonese food & collages of it-girls, pop stars & revolutionaries

Best Friends

• Six girls from ilikemystyle.net about friendship

With Compliments

• Users of ilikemystyle.net choose their favourite current season's fashion editorial from magazines

Remember Where You Lost It

• Photos & stories of nightlife where people remember their most embarrassing, infamous & wasted evenings

China S, M, L

• Sigrid Rothe [username: siro] street style snaps from Beijing, Shanghai
  

Price: 29.90 NZD from Mag Nation

Website: www.ilikemystyle.net

Rating:  4.25  / 5

• Reminiscent of ‘Readers Digest’ in the way it’s presented
• A magazine of fashion blogs reminiscent of Weardrobe, or The Satorialist
• Whereas ‘i love you’ is a printed version of a blog, this is a collection of posts from a social networking site
• Something for everyone, covers all aspects of culture - includes recipes!
• Advertising throughout, & layout is quite busy
• Typography is a mixture of capital & lower case letters, which lends to the 'blog' atmosphere
• Size makes it really easy to carry around