Howies

Howies is a magazine that I stumbled across a few years ago, its big focus is the environment so its very relevant. its a beautiful put together magazine with amazing photography with nice illustrations. It’s a clothing brand but the magazine makes it feel like your reading something a friend has put together.  

The Last Magazine.

After feeling a bit fed up of looking through magazines, I found myself looking through a book (about magazines). Even though I was jumping the gun a little, I decided to go ahead and document it anyways. It gave me inspiration to get going again it made me feel like drawing and going out to take photographs. Which is what I will do. It also had a bit of collage in there.

Baseline.

Baseline is a magazine compleatly about typography. Baseline appeared in 1995 but has won several major international design awards in the USA, Europe and Japan. It is characterized by its large format, sumptuous double cover which is always quirky in design and relates to the topic. I like parts of the magazine but sections of the magazine comes across as old fashioned, that may be due to the small market of people it is aimed at.

Colors.

Colors magazine is a multilingual quarterly magazine developed in Italy by Fabrica, Benetton’s research center. The magazine is known for its photoessays and features a sardonic point of view. The Magzine usally contains quite controversial imagery (sometimes horrific). Each magazine usually focuses on one topic this editon sent correspondant Karl Prinsson to investigate how climate change and sustainable development affect the island of Vörland, in the year 2057. Which I will look at in a bit more detail later on, for its relivance to my brief.

Wallpaper*

Wallpaper* is a magazine that focuses on travel, design, entertainment, fashion and media. It was launched in 1996, it has since been sold on to Time Warner. They do not appear to have altered there cover design in the issues I dug out (apart from slight witty relivant changes, like the mouse pointer on the * above ^). The title varies in colours. All the covers of the issues I seived through in the libary all had striking eye catching images, Making good use of vibrant colours and intresting photography. One thing that stood out to me was wallpapers high standard of advertisements. They don’t seem to clutter the magazine, just add to it.

BLUEPRINT.

Blueprint is a magazine I discoverd in college, but is something I haven’t kept reading, untill given the task too look at 100 magazines. After looking through a few issues I was dissapointed to see a cover change from october 06 (that is not as good as the previous cover layout). I also notced they had focused there attention more towards architecture. The word culture isn’t present on there new cover design where as the old one advertised Architecture, Design and Culture. I rememberd an article I read while I was at college about the future of head sets, and as it was relivant I hunted down the issue to refresh my memory. The article suggests that in the future everyone will be using head sets that do things from showing people what mood they are in (by coloured lights), to shutting outside noise off by reversing the frequency of the sound making it then become silent (so you can listen to music in peace). Using similar technology they think that the ear piece will be able to hone into one direction so that surrounding sound won’t interrupt ones conversation, genius!

Graphik.

Graphik is a magazine I find myself flicking through on a regular basis. It is relivant to my subject, and it’s beautifully presented pages hold intresting articles about the design world. It is published on matte paper which gives it a quality feel which I noticed in other magazines. Above I have documented there different cover changes. This year they have kept pretty much the same but with every issue the profiled artist gets profile photograph on the front (which damn witty!). They profiled Sam Winston in this months issue. It’s a good example of grapik’s presentation and quality content. Sam Winstons works in a artistic graphic design manner. Using typography alot in his work but very conceptually.

Second Look At Magazines

COMPUTER ARTS – Computer Art
WILD LIFE MAGAZINE – Wildlife
GEOGRAPHY REVIEW – Geography
GRAPHIS INTERNATIONAL – Graphic Design
IMAGINE – Animation
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Geography
NEW SCIENTIST – Science **********************************
NEW WELSH REVIEW – Welsh Culture
POETRY REVIEW – Poetry
RESOURCE – Enviroment
SCREEN – Film
STERN – German ???
THE WORLD TODAY – Culture
WIRED – Technology **************************************
WALLPAPER* – Life Style **********************************

First Look At Magazines.

TANK – Fashion
SOURCE – Photography
GRAPHIK – Graphics *********************************
DAZED AND CONFUSED – Fashion Ad’s
DESIGN WEEK – Design
BLUE PRINT – Architecture + Design *******************
PHOTOWORKS – Photography
PHYCHOLOGY REVIEW – Psychology
PORTFOLIO – Contempory British Photgraphy
COLORS – Focuses on a Particular Topic ****************
ART FORUM – Art ***********************************
I-D – Fashion
BASE LINE – Typographic ****************************
AN – Art
THE MIDDLE WAY – Journal of The Buddhist Society
RE:PORT – Newport Union Magazine

Silly Libary Stickers!