Newsletter 04
27.04.2006

 

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318 days before “Colophon 2007”, the international magazine symposium with exhibitions and round tables focused on magazine culture and held in Luxembourg from March 9 th -11 th at Casino Luxembourg – forum d'art contemporain within Luxembourg and Greater Region - European Capital of Culture 2007.

The registration for professionals has now started, read about the advantages and/or buy your Flash Pass online for 75€ only by clicking here (www.colophon2007.com/register).

magazine survey

We also are publishing a book about worldwide magazine culture, and are carrying out a survey of certain issues to help our research.

Please take five minutes to fill in this short questionnaire, and then forward the link on to as many people as possible. We all love magazine culture. Help us learn about yours.

Andrew Losowsky, Editor, Colophon2007 book

magazine blog

magCulture.com/blog: This is a blog about magazine and newspaper design from Jeremy Leslie, author of two books about trends in magazine design,'magCulture' and ‘Issues' (and who is also co-curator of Colophon 2007). The content examines the world of publication design in the broader context of the publishing industry while continuing to note current design trends. Visit this brandnew blog www.magCulture.com/blog

online directory

Some statistics: on April 26^th , 619 magazines from 129 cities in 48 countries have been registered in our online magazine directory. There are 2.191 covers posted, and 211 publishers as well as 642 magazine staff members listed.

on tour

Meet us at the 21^st International Festival of Photography and Fashion in Hyères this week-end or, our partners from Slanted a great german type- and designblog, at Typo Berlin from May 18 ^th - 20 ^th.

next newsletter

The next newsletter will appear in July, from now until then enjoy reading the interviews we have conducted with the following eleven magazines:

WHO WE ARE

Colophon 2007 is produced by Mike Koedinger Editions SA (Luxembourg) in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg - forum d’art contemporain within the framework of "Luxembourg and Greater Region: European Capital of Culture 2007"

 

latest interviews

"The multi-perspectivist view is an expression of democracy" Bob from Vienna (Austria)
"We still can’t figure out what percent of the Harvard student population are virgins" H Bomb from the Harvard University (USA)
"We want it to be the most important art magazine in Europe" spike art quarterly from Vienna (Austria)
"Reaming independent Is probably the only way to consider a long-term-development" Nico from Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
"We do what we want to do" Dong from Paris (France) and Berlin (Germany)
"The strategy is to do things happily" Rojo from Barcelona (Spain)
"Mistakes in our life provide us opportunities for learning" idPure from Morges (Switzerland)
"Don’t be afraid of failure, failure is creativity" Truce from Zürich (Switzerland)
"Looking for pure innovation" The Royal from New York (USA)