With what must surely be painstaking effort, Peter Funch pieces together themed sets of photographs to create street scenes that oscilate from the comedic to the downright creepy!
Check out Peter’s handywork here
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
With all this talk of magazines closing, it’s about time we told you about our new (glossy) project, which launches today. Aurora – the inflight magazine for Highland Airways – is now officially out and available on scheduled and charter flights from the company.
CMYK Design create editorial content, commission photography and illustrations, sell advertising space in the title and handle print and distribution. It’s fantastic to be involved in a magazine like this – and we expect the magazine to go from strength to strength.
So another men’s magazine closes. Maxim, which, to be honest, I won’t miss much – has closed in the UK. However, it still continues to sell 2.5m copies in the US, and has franchises in other countries such as China, India and France. I found only one copy in my archives – it dates from 2000 – around the height of the lads’ mag boom, but it is pretty dire, and I am surprised it held on for so long. I can’t even bring myself to put the cover up here. The image above is the launch issue from 1995 – edited by Gill Hudson – now editor of Radio Times
The digital version of the magazine will continue we are told – and I guess that is the way things are going anyhow. In this YouTube culture, you can access pretty much anything you want immediately, so waiting a month for a printed magazine to hit the shelves seems pretty redundant.
I’m a bit late with this post about Arena magazine, which sadly closed the doors in March.
Just thought I’d tell you about the time when I worked at (previous publishers of Arena) Wagadon on an issue of The Face. That’s another story, but while I was there I was chatting to then editor, Dylan Jones, about the Greta Scacchi cover they ran in summer 1991. It was the first time they had ever put a woman on the front cover, and the issue sold out completely. This made him realise – a men’s magazine doesn’t have to have images of men on the front cover (as every issue had done before). Well, you just need to look at any men’s magazine today – to see that Arena started the revolution – for better or for worse. Continue reading ‘Arena – gone but not forgotten’