San Francisco Zine Fest kicks off on 4th September 2010. It’s a free two-day event that has been going since 2002.
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So, Vintage at Goodwood kicks off today, and our trip down magazine memory lane comes to an end in the 80s, with a copy of Blitz magazine.
Wrongly accused as a pale imitation of The Face, Blitz was a great reflection of the time, as this Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover testifies. First published in 1980, the magazine closed in 1991. This issue is from 1984, the year I moved to London to study design at the London College of Printing. Blitz, the Face and ID magazines were all very much part of my life then. Looking through this copy, I am amazed at the amount of mono pages – we just take full colour printing for granted now. Jeremy Leslie took over the design soon after this issue, and he now writes one of the best magazine blogs around – magculture.com
Enjoy Vintage at Goodwood! I will post up some spreads later from the magazines featured throughout the week.
Nearly there. Vintage at Goodwood starts tomorrow, and our countdown of magazine covers through the decades continues with Oz from 1972.
This is the fifth anniversary issue, and the list of contributors is amazing: John Peel, Auberon Waugh, Robert Crumb and Peter Till. Sadly, the magazine was on a downward spiral, having been through the courts on an obscenity charge which became the longest in legal history (for the time). Felix Dennis, one of the men behind Oz came out reasonably unscathed, forming Dennis Publishing in the eighties and tapping into the new computer market. Today, Dennis talks of its publications as “brands” rolling them out as franchises in different countries and also online.
Last vintage post tomorrow – and it’s the eighties. Plus, a sneaky look inside some of the magazines.
We continue our countdown to Vintage at Goodwood on Friday, and today is the turn of the sixties.
Homes and furniture was a massive part of the 1960s, with new designers like Charles Eames and Terence Conran shaping the way people lived. Ideal Home magazine was one of the biggest selling titles at the time. Published since the twenties, it is still around today, and recently had a redesign. Some of the furniture in this issue from October 1964 wouldn’t look out of place in today’s copy!
Four days to go till Vintage at Goodwood, and today we celebrate that event with a magazine cover from the fifties. 1951 to be precise. The year of the Festival of Britain, and the advent of a nation determined to pull itself out of austerity and war.
Picture Post was the ‘Life’ magazine of the UK. It began in 1938 and became an overnight success, selling 1.6million copies at its peak. Through a combination of superb photojournalism and striking covers, like this one, the publication kept the British people going through the war years and out the other side. It closed in 1957.
Tomorrow – the sixties.
Vintage Goodwood – (a celebration of all that is great about British culture) begins on Friday. Brainchild of Wayne Hemingway (he of Red or Dead fame) – the festival will consist of music, fashion and all things cultural. I dearly want to go, but it is just too far to travel with the current workload we have. Continue reading ‘Vital Vintage (1940s)’
After five years at CMYK our advertising manager Kirsti Thomson is leaving for a new challenge. Having poached her from Wyvex Media all those years ago, Kirsti proved a driving force behind Scotland in Trust, the membership magazine we produce on behalf of the National Trust for Scotland. Continue reading ‘Situations vacant’
There will be plenty to inspire you at the 2010 O.K Festival in Arnhem, the Netherlands between 16-18 April. Featuring leading Dutch and International independent magazines, the roll call comprises (amongst others), Anorak, Found Magazine, Graphic, Gym Class, Karen etc. With workshops and speakers, including Simon Esterson and Luis Mendo, this promises to be an unmissable event.
Now, I wonder if we can get a flight from Edinburgh…
Photograph: Tina Norris
Last night the team from CMYK were celebrating in style after winning Member Magazine of the Year at the PPA Scotland Awards 2009.
Continue reading ‘CMYK win at PPA Scotland Awards!’
Talking of awards, The Maggies have been announced. Nice to see a couple of Scottish magazines in there – notably, Clash, winning the lifestyle category against titles like Red, She and Good Housekeeping. Well done lads!