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Designing Magazines is a book and blog edited by Jandos Rothstein. The book is published by Allworth Press You’ll find contributor biographies and links here.

News & Views on Visual Communication from the writers and readers of creative review

The story behind Premiere Issues is simple. Over the years I've amassed a small, but steady collection of premiere issues that I want to display, and develop into a project. It started with a copy of Ray Gun that I picked up in a bookstore in Monterey, California. That particular magazine became an important design and cultural reference and set the tone for a number of magazines that followed. When I moved to New York in 1995, I would spend an afternoon visiting my favourite newstands and read through magazines. Foreign. Fashion. Culture. Art. There were loads to choose from. But I often thought of this first issue I had, stored under my bed somewhere, and started to pick up copies of premieres whenever I spotted them. Suddenly it seemed there was a new one hitting the stands each week. New magazine publishing was exploding. It began to get interesting, and I began collecting.

Premiere Issues is a way of documenting these first issues, and providing an index and reference guide to some of the magazines we love, collect, subscribe to and read. Since magazines are about individual tastes, my concentration is mostly on fashion, design, art, culture, film, or related topics.

In the collection, you will find for each publication a 'stat' sheet; it is essentially a list of who the creators are; the founders, publishers, designers, editors as well as what the magazine is; its physical attributes, frequency, and opening statement. The message, if there is one, usually defines the tone of the new publication. While each statement is thoughtfully written and unique, seen altogether they compose a greater magazine landscape; one that is continually shifting, generating new ideas, recording current trends and capturing a part of our identities and imaginations.

In the meantime hopefully, the collection will grow. This is a personal project, lead by curiousity and the desire to document, but also subject to the everyday whims and fancies. Aside from the help and commen

mag nation is the world’s first and only magazine superstore. With a growing number of bricks and mortar retail stores in Australia and New Zealand stocking over 4,000 magazine titles, we have the largest range of mainstream and special interest magazines in the galaxy.

The mag nation Land of Mags website allows you to subscribe to both popular and special interest magazine titles. Magazine subscriptions can also be bought over the counter at our retail stores. The Land of Mags is also creating a magazine community centred around magazine culture. Members can sign up to our newsletter, and best of all, create their own coffee table to store their favourite mags, share them with friends, and invite comment.

mag nation and the Land of Mags is devoted to magazines. Nice and simple.

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Selvedge Magazine... offers the world’s finest textile photography, unparalleled design and peerless writing

Open a copy of Selvedge and you sense there is a philosophy that Selvedge readers subscribe to. A belief system based on a cerebral and sensual addiction to textiles in all forms. Readers share a belief in the importance of their material surroundings and a passion for the beautiful and beautifully made.

Our aim is simple: to provide a textile publication which fits seamlessly into their creative lifestyle. Directed towards an international, discerning audience, Selvedge covers fine textiles in every context: fine art, interiors, fashion, travel and shopping.

the happy mag for kids

New Found Lust is dedicated to fashion's odds and ends, trends and anti-trends, where to get them, how to wear them and why they are worth trying on.

Small is a magazine of creative work on a small scale and for the small sized. Although primarily for children’s products and designs it is also about small-scale productions. We are looking for people that are interested in play, children, childhood and the child within and who produce high quality work and independent products and design on a small-scale.

It's Nice That was launched in April 2007 by designers Will Hudson and Jez Burrows to document and inspire creative talent.

an online pdf magazine showcasing the best emerging talent in the visual arts

Iconique Fashion Magazine: Fashion, Luxury, Art, Beauty

About dezeen

Our mission is simple: to bring you news of great projects before anyone else. Dezeen was launched at the end of November 2006 and has grown rapidly to become one of the most popular and influential architecture and design blogs on the internet. We now get over 500,000 unique visitors a month, and traffic is growing fast.

Who edits dezeen?

Dezeen is edited by Marcus Fairs, author of the major new book Twenty-First Century Design (published October 2006) and founder and former editor of icon magazine.

A furniture design graduate, Marcus began his journalism career writing for publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Conde Nast Traveller.

He launched icon, the international architecture and design magazine, in 2003, and edited the publication until November 2006. Under Marcus, the magazine rapidly established itself as one of the world’s most influential and respected design journals, winning a string of awards including Launch of the Year and Designer of the Year in 2003 and Monthly Magazine of the Year in 2005 and 2006.

Marcus himself has won numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004). He also regularly appears on radio and TV, writing and presenting a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck for the BBC in 2003 and appearing in the major BBC series Home in 2006.

An accomplished public speaker, Marcus has spoken at conferences in London, Tokyo, New York, Stockholm and Cape Town, among others.

Marcus lives and works in London.

Style Will Save Us. StyleWillSaveUs is an independent digital style magazine magazine (no paper here, we’re saving trees!) that loves all things super-stylish, organic, ethical, fairtrade, eco-friendly, vintage, recycled and sustainable.

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art, dreative director, designer, illustrator, photographer, robert lindstrom

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