Colophon2007 - Newsletter 01 - 19.07.2005
This first issue of the Colophon2007-newsletter was sent to 560 decision-makers from 310 magazines worldwide.
Colophon 2007 is an on-going project building a database of magazines and a network of organizations and people from all over the world. The database includes factsheets, covers, interviews and information for creatives, journalists, publishers and advertisers.
The website colophon2007.com will be launched during CMYK - international independent magazine culture festival in Barcelona from 21 - 23.07.2005.
You are now viewing a pre-version of the website. This newsletter is meant as a call for entries, an invitation to complete your factsheet, add covers, publish more data about your magazine, etc.
Colophon2007 will gather entries before being launched with an international conference in collaboration with the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain from March 9 - 11th 2007. At the same time the Colophon 2007 book will be published.
Colophon 2007 is not only an invaluable resource for everyone involved in magazine creation and publishing but it is a meeting point where current practice meets future trends.
HOW DO THE UPDATES WORK?
Colophon2007 is a 100% free service. Please upload as much content as you can: complete fact sheets, history, information about advertising contacts and about subscription contacts (please, do not use a LINK, but fill in text). Visitors to our site very much appreciate discovering from each magazine a large number of covers, interviews with the "makers", spreadpages, etc
First send us a mail. You will receive your personal ID and password in order to: access the database, start publishing and complete or change data whenever you wish.
Important notice: No content will be published automatically - our team will need from 6 to 72 hours to publish your content.
INTERVIEW
Meeting with Kimberly Lloyd, co-founder of the collectible "M Publication" for a discussion on the international scene for independent magazines, the CMYK festival in Barcelona, and how to succeed in four editions only to go on to create an international reference point for editions of collectors' magazines.
Mike Koedinger: M Publication is a magazine out of the commonplace. 224 pages packed full of surprises: a dozen different papers are used like a panoply of printing techniques (Blindstamping, hot foil stamping, punching, UV varnishing ...). The editions are monothematic (Power, Luxury, Surprise, Germany) and the collaborators are international. Somewhere between a book and a collector's item, all the same you prefer to regard it as a magazine. Why? And how would you like "M" to be presented?
Kimberly Lloyd: If you take a 100 dollar note in your hand, you won’t look at it and throw it away, right? It has value and you get some kind of personal profit out of it. I always want to make a piece of paper worth 100 dollars at least. The question was, how I could I make this physically possible? What information would I put on that piece of paper or what materials will it consist of to make it valuable for my taste? Then I learned that publishing is similar to cooking.
Meet Kimberly Lloyd at CMYK 2005.
UPCOMING EVENTS
21-23.07.2005 CMYK – international independent magazine culture festival in Barcelona (Spain) www.cmyk-mags.com
15-18.09.2005 Atypl 2005 – Helsinki (Fin) www.atypi.org
30.09-09.10.2005 The best of Belgian and international advertising Brussels (B) www.creativeclub.be
13-15.10.2005 GraficEurope Budapest (H) www.graficeurope.com
21-23.10.2005 ADC Junior Days München (D) www.adc.de
26-29.10.2005 Druck+Form Sinsheim (D) www.druckform-messe.de
more events here - register your event here
LATEST REPORTS
La Cambre show05. Backstage report from the internationally renowned Brussels-based fashion school La Cambre. Pictures by Andres Lejona.
Typo Berlin 2005. International conferences on design in Berlin (Germany). With presentations by the makers from etc publications, tupigrafia, Typography, vorn and with WIRED-Founder Louis Rosetto. Pictures by Mike Koedinger.
Festival International de Mode et de Photographie in Hyères (France) With new and established talent, see our picture report from the twentieth anniversary edition. Pictures by Andres Lejona.
Modo Bruxellae 2004 A weekend full of fashion in Brussels (Belgium). Pictures by Alexis Juncosa.
CMYK 2004 .The first magazine festival was launched in Barcelona (Spain). We were there ; - ) Pictures by Alexis Juncosa.
See those reports and more here
PRESS RELEASE FOR INSTANT USE
Share the passion of magazine culture with your readers by publishing our press release.
Download text in English here - html version here
Download picture here. Please mention the credit: Photo: Andres Lejona / Blitz.
SUGGEST A MAGAZINE
We very much appreciate our visitors’ and publishers’ suggestions. Colophon2007 is about international collaborations, so why not collaborate? All you have to do is fill in the form after having clicked here.
SEND US YOUR MAGAZINE(S)
Please keep us informed about your magazine(s) and your projects. We very much appreciate receiving: “issue 01”, a recent copy and/or a free subscription to your magazine.
Your publications should be sent to: Mike Koedinger Editions SA, Colophon2007, PO BOX 728, L-2017 Luxembourg.
CUSTOMIZE THE COLOPHON2007-LOGO
Colophon2007’s corporate identity was designed by Franck Samery from bizart.
As Colophon2007 is about worldwide collaborations, we invite designers to create their own version. Their version, once it is selected, will influence the whole website.
The different logos will be used by random.
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE IMPORT TO LUXEMBOURG
In order to promote international magazines to the Luxembourg audience, we do import magazines with our partner Hans Fellner from Fellner Art Books. We are speaking about little quantities (hey, Luxembourg’s population is less than 600.000 including 115.000 daily commuters, and it’s ONE bookstore) but it’s one more country on your distribution list. Please send us a mail to IMPORT@COLOPHON2007.COM.
WHO WE ARE
Colophon 2007 is produced by Luxembourg based independent publisher Mike Koedinger in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg - forum d’art contemporain within the framework of "Luxembourg and Greater Region: European Capital of Culture 2007"
We are a publishing media group dedicated to producing high quality magazines, guides and events for Luxembourg.
With currently five publications, a photo agency, an advertising management company and numerous events and websites, we monitor the pulse of popular culture and society in the greater Luxembourg region.
Our audience are the opinion formers, movers, and shakers in all fields including cultural & urban trends, politics & economics and popular culture.
We are now a team of 22 dedicated professionals producing over 4.000 pages per year and reaching a wider and wider audience in Luxembourg and the greater region.
IMPRINT
colophon2007.com and colophon2007 newsletter are published by © Mike Koedinger Editions (Luxembourg). Art direction: bizart. Webpublishing: Nvision.
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