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    2007 Best Magazine Covers

    The ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) have just run their annual "Magazine Cover of the Year". As usual it’s a real feast of visual delight and there’s some pretty special work included in the entries. Visuals of the full list can

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    Every cover tells a story

    Inspired by reading Steve Taylor’s book on 100 Years of Magazine Covers, I have dug out the link for a project the American Society of Magazine Editors ran not so long ago to pick the most iconic covers of the past 40

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    Am I missing something?

    ‘Digital magazines’ like Monkey and the recently launched Jellyfish – I just don’t get it. Using your mouse to ‘turn the pages’ in a digital facsimile of an offline format may be a neat way of sampling an offline magazine online (in

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    The best book on magazines…ever

    Possibly. Steve Taylor’s ‘100 Years of Magazine Covers’ tells its own story. An eclectic and broad mix of covers including The Face, The NME, Vogue, LIFE, Paris Match, i-D, Rolling Stone, Time and Oz are presented alongside references to their ‘historical and

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    Magazines for the creative

    Couple of things for the more creative amongst you…First up Wallpaper*. Always daring to be different, the March issue features a limited edition moving lenticular cover previewing Hussein Chalayan’s mechanical dress. Also just in, courtesy of magculture, the latest print edition of

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    Look out

    Not everyday you launch a new magazine so couldn’t let this auspicious occasion pass by without at least a mention on my blog. LOOK is the ‘glossy, fast fashion fix for today’s discerning young woman’ as it says on the blurb. The

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    On longevity of brands

    You read a lot about the increasingly short life-span of brands, driven (as so many things are) by the pressures at retail. There are some notable exceptions and here’s one – Country Life this month is celebrating its 110th birthday. Yes, that’s

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    I found my naked pics in a phone box

    User-generated-content has of-course been around in an offline format for a long time. Pick Me Up is one of my favourite magazines. The bizarre but true stories it features are as scandalous as they are funny. My favourite headline from this weeks

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