Adventures in a world of print
I have been watching the excitement build for Vintage at the Southbank Centre, which kicks off tomorrow for 3 days of what looks like fantastic fun. I am a self-confessed Festival of Britain nut, so to have the event at the Southbank Centre 60 years after the ground-breaking festival took place there is absolute genius.
Just received some great photos back from Mark Sinclair of PhatSheep photography in Shetland for a 5-page feature due to be included in the coming issue of Scotland In Trust, the membership magazine for the National Trust for Scotland. Here is a sneak preview of what we’ll be printing:
We’d asked Mark to take photographs of Belmont House on Unst which is owned by the Belmont Trust and due to be available for holiday rentals through the National Trust for Scotland from this spring.
Mark did a great job and we must thank him for his considerable efforts including a lengthy drive and two ferry crossings to reach the property!
Not really mag related but take a look at these stunning photographs of water caught in mid air from Shinchi Maruyama. Gorgeous!
In an interesting experiment posted on LiveJournal, last year’s Vogue covers from each of the different editions have been overlayed to surprisingly varied effect. Some are light and airy looking while others – notably the Paris edition – are darker with more apparent typographic variation.
It’s interesting to see how the UK edition (above left) creates a sort of average model shot (Dave Gorman anyone?) while you’d be hard pressed to focus on a single clear face in the Paris edition (above right).
Spotted via Creative Review blog.
For some time now I have thought that food magazines are on the rise. Maybe it’s something to do with the recession – eating is our only comfort? After my recent trip to GmbH, the new mag store in Glasgow, I came back with no less than 5 new food-related titles, and there are more out there too.
Been really busy lately getting our own magazines out – The Keeper (for whisky drinkers) mails next week, The Gallery (for prisoners) delivered today, Practice Manager (for, er, Practice managers) at the printers. Not only have we been busy making mags, we’ve been buying a lot of them too. We have a fairly big backlog of new and interesting titles to tell you about – mainly after our trip to GmbH, the new mag store that opened in Glasgow last month. Plenty of splendid magazines on the shelves there. Here are some pictures, and yes, they are planning to sell coffee soon. Oh, and luckily, they take credit cards…
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