Colophon 2007 - NEWS 25.01.2007

 

REGISTER NOW!

Only 44 days to go! The kick off for Colophon 2007 – International Magazine Symposium - is getting closer and closer. Be present right from the start at one of the most significant and relevant events in the wonderful world of magazines. Be part of this global gathering, featuring international exhibitions at fantastic locations, stimulating discussions and a groovy electro pop party. Take a look at everything this forthcoming event has in store and get ready to register! (if you haven't already…)

FIVE EXHIBITIONS OF MAGAZINE CULTURE:

A visual representation of 10 groundbreaking magazines, by the people who make them. Here are the ten magazines: Carl's Cars (Norway), Coupe (Toronto), Frame (Amsterdam), Omagiu (Bucharest), Rojo ( Barcelona ), Shift! (Berlin), S-Magazine (Copenhagen), Street-Fruits-Tune (Tokyo), Yummy (Paris) and Thisisamagazine.com (Milan)

Plus: The Magazine Graveyard dedicated to those publications that no longer exist - Classic Magazine Covers: a projection of + 1,000 covers. “20 Years of X-Non-Magazine”, a celebration of the underground fanzine – A tribute to the publication “Magazine” (Paris) ... All hosted in a spectacular, multi-level venue.

PRE-PROGRAMME OF TALKS

can now be downloaded here. Panel discussions, conferences and portfolio shows. More than 25 hours of talks with speakers including Angelo Cirimele (France), Samir “Mr Magazine” Husni (USA), Jeremy Leslie (UK), Andrew Losowsky (Spain), Horst Moser (Germany), David Renard (USA), Boz Temple-Morris (UK) and Victor Zabrockis (Spain). Plus magazine art directors, illustrators, photographers, designers, agents...

Featuring simultaneous translation from English to French and from French to English.

The symposium will be blogged, live during the three days, by www.slanted.de (german) and www.magCulture.com/blog (english).

PRESS INFO:

Download the latest press release in english, french or german. Several visuals are available on request. We would love you to send us the magazine with the review or the link to your website once the news is published. Thank you. Our address: Colophon 2007, Press clipping, PO Box 728 , L-2017 Luxembourg (Europe)

ROOM WITH A VIEW, THE TEMPORARY MAGAZINE STORE

is open during Colophon 2007. Magazines - promote, distribute and/or sell your magazine. All you need to do is, register here and send us the magazines to: Colophon 2007, Mike Koedinger, 10 rue des Gaulois, L-1618 Luxembourg (Europe). The shop will be managed by Hans Fellner, our partner from art-design-photography bookstore Fellner Art Books. Unsold copies from the symposium can be sold in his bookstore (probably better than sending back the magazines), which is also available as your future point of sale in Luxembourg .

CALL FOR ENTRIES: PORTFOLIO SHOWS

is a series of live presentations of artwork in the fields of photography, illustration and graphic design. Each one hour session allows 10 talents to show samples of their work on a projected screen for a period of 5 minutes. Each session will focus on illustration, photography or graphic design, either by professionals or by students, and offers a chance for the artists to speak about their work if they wish. The audience will be given an index with the contacts of the 10 artists. An excellent networking forum for artists and a great opportunity for the right audience to view a wide variety of artwork in a fast paced and entertaining format. Be a part of it. Register

Registrations are open till February 9th. Note: the section “Editorial Graphic Design” is open to magazine art directors to offer them an opportunity to talk about their work on the magazine. We've been asked this question so often that we are answering it here, so yes!

Full technical instructions on how to prepare the files will be sent out within the next two weeks.

WE LOVE MAGAZINES, THE BOOK

is now in pre-press. 400 pages full of exciting stories on magazine culture, breathtaking visuals and the world's largest directory of the independent stylepress. You can pre-order your copy. If you are a retailer please contact Die Gestalten Verlag, the Berlin based publisher is in charge of worldwide distribution. Read more about the book here.

THE ECLECTIC ELECTRO POP PARTY

on Saturday March 10th. Flash Passers have free entrance (not yet a flash passer? Register) But the amazing big rotondas welcome all Colophon 2007 visitors and regional clubbers  ; - ) We recommand to buy a ticket online in advance, you can do it here. But first have a look at the programme with four live bands and DJ Corrine from Pink TV (Paris)

READY TO TRAVEL TO LUXEMBOURG?

Please read carefully our travel tips and, if you are already a Flash Passer benefit from important reduction on hotel rates. (If you are a Flash Passer and have not yet received the password, please drop a line to ariane@colophon2007.com). Want to register as a Flash Passer, this is the register form

We would like to thank very much our 76 media partners which help us to promote the symposium. Full list see below.

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The Colophon 2007 Newsletter is sent on a monthly basis to our subscribers and to all the registered magazines.

WHO WE ARE

Colophon 2007 is produced by Mike Koedinger Editions SA (Luxembourg) in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg - forum d’art contemporain.

 

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