i - D Exhibit

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i - D from London visits NYC

@ Chelsea Art Museum, NYC

Is Not Magazine

Is Not Magazine. The 1.5 x 2m poster-format magazine has been flyposted bi-monthly at 50 sites across central Melbourne since April 2005. Each issue combines two themes, in these examples ‘Beatles & Stones’ and ‘Bigger & Better’, and features a mix of fiction and non-fiction.

The poster format is an ingenious way of avoiding the usual problems of distribution, but also gives the editors freedom to play with the magazine form. Each issue is a two-colour collage of articles, drawings and diagrams, with a grid reference system providing navigation via a contents list. There are spaces for people to add their own content, crosswords to be completed communally, and mini-stories designed to be stored on your mobile phone camera and read later.



Until now Is Not Magazine has only been available in he backstreets of downtown Melbourne, but issue four (’Young & Free’) has just been repackaged as Is Not Takeaway No1. This booklet version of the original poster gives a good idea of the actual content. There’s a political piece about new anti-terrorism laws, a book review, a piece about nappy fetishism, interviews and a comic strip.

The magazine gets much of its unique visual appearance from its arrangement to exclusively use only fonts from the Underware foundry.

Is Not Magazine's Website

Magazine Exhibition

I'm going. Email me if you're interested in joining.

New York fashion/art magazine Visionaire is hosting an exhibition of early issues of art and culture magazines @ their SOHO gallery. NY mag Tokion, Very and Details are all included. (pre-Conde Nast versions). Mega Zines runs from July 31-Oct.13 @ Visionaire Gallery: 11 Mercer Street, NYC.

Excerpt from The Daily Scene: FARAN KRENTCIL
(NEW YORK) How’s this for self-referential: Visionaire will soon launch an art exhibit, devoted to…other independent magazines.
"Megazines at Visionaire Gallery" opens on July 31, and features a colorful selection of glossies from past and present. On display (and also for sale) at the Mercer Street space will be Gazette du Bon Ton, the first ever illustrated fashion magazine, the Surrealist journal View, and the launch issues of Interview, i-D, Dazed & Confused, and other progressive culture books. Besides an archive of older magazines, the exhibit will also showcase and sell new publications on the art and fashion landscape, including Acne Paper, The Blowup, and Useless. While the show may be pure education for some viewers, it’s a bit of nostalgia for Visionaire co-founder Stephen Gan, whose alma mater, Details, is included in the lineup.

Visionaire Website

coupe magazine

I've come across in magculture, Coupe Magazine. From Toronto: founder Bill Douglas. It is, for lack of a better word, AMAZING.

courtesy of Jeremy Leslie:
It uses the magazine format to present material not usually associated with magazines. Each issue takes a theme, sometimes pretty loose, and plays around with words and images to create a stimulating, highly visual, but largely unstructured mood board.

Yet it is clearly still a magazine. The running order is skillfully managed to take best advantage of the ebb and flow of pages, using changes in pace to maintain interest. The examples below are from the most recent issue, no15, a photographic record of the typographic clutter found around Toronto. It is a beautifully produced magazine that deserves a wider availability.