Colophon 2009

about

Colophon 2009
International Magazine Symposium
13-15.03.2009

producer

Colophon 2009 is produced by Mike Koedinger in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain.

curators

Jeremy Leslie is Executive Creative Director at the John Brown Group, the UKs leading customer publishing agency. Previously he ran his own studio working for clients including Blitz magazine and The Guardian newspaper, and spent three years as group art director at Time Out. Leslie is a passionate advocate of editorial design, regularly contributing to the creative press and design conferences on the subject. He has written two books about magazine design: Issues (2000) and magCulture (2003), and designed the book We Love Magazines. He is a co-founder of Colophon, deputy chairman of the newly formed Editorial Design Organisation in London, and a member of the executive committee of D&AD. His blog about magazine design can be read at www.magCulture.com

Andrew Losowsky creates editorial experiences for clients around the world. For four years, he was editorial director of le cool publishing, based in Barcelona, overseeing the creation of their Weird and Wonderful Guidebooks to Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Lisbon and Madrid, as well as the remarkable, award-winning inflight magazine Ling. A passionate commentator on magazines, design and unusual ways of telling stories, Losowsky has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Times of London and Grafik among many other publications. He edited the book We Love Magazines, and his collection of short stories, 'The Doorbells of Florence', will be published in Spring 2009 by Chronicle Books. He currently lives in the USA, and writes about magazine issues at www.losowsky.com/magtastic

Mike Koedinger Luxembourg 's leading independent publisher is running a publishing media group dedicated to producing high quality magazines, corporate publications, guides and events for Luxembourg. With currently seven publications, an advertising management company, a studio for editorial design and numerous events and websites, his group monitors the pulse of popular culture and society in the greater Luxembourg region. Koedinger is the founder and co-curator of Colophon, as well as the publisher of the book We Love Magazines. www.mikekoedinger.com, www.tempo.lu