With Christmas nearly upon us, I’ve put together a list of books for the designer in your life. Or just treat yourself.
Tag Archive for 'magazine'
Team CMYK. Photos: Mike Wilkinson. http://mike-wilkinson.photoshelter.com
There was much excitement last night as CMYK scooped three awards at the PPA Scotland Magazine ceremony.
Aurora, the magazine for Highlands and Islands Airports won Customer Magazine, and FYi, produced for the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland took Best Magazine Design in the business & professional category.
Neil Braidwood, centre, accepts the award for aurora magazine
Matt McArthur, centre, accepts the award for FYi
The much coveted Member Magazine award went to Surgeons’ News, published on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
John Duncan, editor of Surgeons' News, centre, accepts the award
The V&A have a postmodern exhibition on at the moment. Right up my street. Neville Brody and Terry Jones are talking this Friday about their massive contribution to the magazine culture that flourished in the eighties (sold out I’m afraid). But it got me thinking about the last time Neville Brody was involved with the V&A. It was back in 1988 when there was a retrospective of his work. The book of the exhibition is on every designer’s shelf. Continue reading ‘Telly addict’
In the era of the always-on, always-connected, never-sleeping, cloud-syncing, at-your-fingertips media, the one thing all of us print heads can agree on is that a physical magazine – considered, planned and committed to ink and paper – offers a rare opportunity to disconnect and lose oneself in a moment of calm. Nothing is updating live before our very eyes. There are no shifting RSS sands and when you pick it up tomorrow, it will be the same thing it was today.
This unhurried state of affairs is at the heart of Delayed Gratification. Forget the deadlines, forget up-to-the-minute, let’s think about all this for a while. Then let’s think some more and when we’re done, let’s write something about it all.
Femina: French magazines from the Belle Epoque
We are going all French here at CMYK Towers. Emma, our intern from Biarritz is helping on the advertising side of things, and Benedicte, our freelance designer from Bordeaux is laying a few pages out for Scotland in Trust magazine.
I had a few copies of ground-breaking French magazine Femina, dating from 1906, lying around, so I asked Benedicte to give her opinion. The magazine is still going in fact – Emma knew the title, however, it seems to have morphed into a fairly standard women’s magazine, lacking the identity it had in the early days.
Killing time in Athens airport last week, I picked up a free airport magazine called 2board. I flicked through, expecting puffery for the watches, perfumes and sundry cakes on sale all around me. Instead I marvelled at superb photographs, many of Greece, many not, and at absorbing features including one on The Gypsetters, a social group who had hitherto not crossed my radar. These affluent hippies, inspired by Lord Byron, wander the globe in Pucci kaftans, whatever they may be, and keep their American Express Black Cards in crocodile wallets. Nonsense, but enjoyable nonsense, and lavishly illustrated with portraits of Gypset icons such as Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo and Brigitte Bardot. All this is seemingly documented in a book entitled Gypset Style, by Julia Chaplin, in case you want to know more. But 2boards real triumph is to look so good while running all its content in two languages – Greek and English. This is a devilishly difficult thing to do. I once had a friend who edited a tri-lingual industry magazine called Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen. He found it far from easy – and he didn’t have to worry about gorgeous layouts.
Recent Comments