- 2021
- 5177
- 2485
- 662
Colophon 2011
we love magazines
the essential read for anyone with passion for print
The essential read for anyone with a passion for print. There really is no feeling like that of picking up a good magazine. It can easily be described as a sensuous pleasure.
You peel back its cover to discover all that it has to reveal. You flick through its pages and thousands of hours of work flash past your eyes, condensed into an instant. Suddenly, you stop at a page. You linger, expectant. You look down at what fate has chosen, and hope to find something that will blow your mind.
Sometimes it doesn't. But sometimes it does. And when that happens, when you are magazine-satisfied, there is no feeling quite like it.
We love magazines. This book is our love letter to those magazines we love.
WE LOVE MAGAZINES examines both the mainstream and independent sectors to reveal the essence of some of the world's favourite publications.
Features include: how magazines evolve, ever-changing design tools, intelligent advertising, historic moments in print, the challenges of distribution, a magazine graveyard... and some of the biggest names and newest faces in magazine creation today.
Published to accompany the Colophon 2007 symposium, this 400-page book, edited by Andrew Losowsky and designed by Jeremy Leslie, reveals how and why people make magazines.
Also inside, ten of the world's most original publications are given eight pages each to showcase their work, and WE LOVE MAGAZINES contains the first-ever publication of the Colophon directory: 1,100 independent magazines from more than 50 countries, plus a list of international magazine stockists. Set to become the “HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE” to the magazine galaxy.
Popular and exclusive, groundbreaking and mainstream, international and local, physical and digital, frequent and occasional, handbag sized and too large to hold, absolutely free and impossibly expensive...whichever one (or more) tickles your fancy, everyone loves magazines.
WE LOVE MAGAZINES shows you why.
Approx. 400 pages, 168 x 237 mm, printed in 8 colours on m-real paper by Victor Buck and published by Mike Koedinger.