Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Signing Session at Athenaeum Newscentre
Coming saturday, famous Dutch shoe designer Jan Jansen will sign the book he made together with author Lisa Goudsmit. They will be present at Athenaeum Newscentre from 14.00 - till 16.00 hours.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
BOAT MAGAZINE travels to Kyoto
For each issue the BOAT editors travel to a city, investigate it and make their magazine about their findings. So far they've been to Sarajevo, Detroit, London and Athens. For the 5th issue they went to Kyoto.
Articles about Kyoto's special sushi's, the mountains north of the city, the history of the Nintendo, the maiko and geisha's seen through Western feminist eyes, Kyoto's vegetarian kitchen shojin ryori, ceramics, bonsai and beautiful pictures of the city and it's inhabitants.
Boat proves with each issue how strong their concept is, this issue is better than any travel guide you can find on the city.
Monday, June 17, 2013
interview with HELLO MR.
HELLO MR. is a new magazine for men who date men, it's made by Ryan Fitzgibbon. We had some questions for him.
Hello Mr. Fitzgibbon, how are you doing?
Very well, thanks!
Why did you start Hello Mr.? Which magazines inspired you?
As a graphic designer, I’ve always loved magazines. My taste evolved as I matured and begin exploring the world – Indie bookshops became the landmarks of my memories, and magazine became the relics of the different cities I visited. It always seemed to be the heaviest magazines that I was attracted to, also; Apartamento, Monocle, Fantastic Man, Elephant, etc. The quality of design and density of content made me an instant subscriber of titles in this genre. As I devoured their content, I started forming my own opinions of what qualifies a quality publication.
A theme I uncovered about many of my favorite publications was how inherently gay they were, not in the literal sense, but in who was responsible for creating them. It baffled me to think that with so many great publishers out there, why there hadn’t been a sophisticated title catered to me, a gay man who loves reading magazines on the go. While I loved BUTT and Mate/Winq, I would never be caught dead reading those rags on an airplane let alone anywhere in public. That’s the basis of why I started Hello Mr. The how I started it, is an entirely different, and not so simple story.
What keeps you going while editing the magazine?
Is it cliché to say my fans? Truly though, the readers that have supported and inspired me through the making of issue 01 drive me to keep going. Anyone in independent publishing knows that it’s not about success or money, it’s about creating community around commonality. And for a generation of gay men, many under the age of 18, Hello Mr. plays an important role in connecting like-minded individuals on a global level.
What's your favourite gay magazine? And what's your favourite magazine at the moment?
As crude as it can be, I’ve always admired BUTT for creating a strong brand that marked a place in time through the voices of a niche group of gay men. Not all that different than what Hello Mr. is doing, but in a different era, for a different group of men. At the moment, I’m thoroughly enjoying watching (and being a part of) the surge of independently published magazines and the ‘Golden Age of Print’ making a come back. Magazines like Apology, Kindling Quarterly, and Offscreen are all inspiring me to continue pushing the industry forward for all lovers of great content.
What's your favourite place for a date?
Coffee. Stimulate me.
Do you want to go for a drink?
Yes, please
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
interview with SPECIAL REQUEST
Special Request came in a few weeks ago, we instantly loved it. It's the kind of magazine we like, it looks different, we don't understand it straight away and the articles are sharp.
We had some questions for SR editors Paul Sethi and Tom Viney.
- Paul, you were art editor for CLASH magazine before, why did you start Special Request?
Paul Sethi: I still am art editor for Clash Magazine. I've designed and helped produce about fifty issues over the course of four and a half years. It's what I'm passionate about, and what I know well. Doing another magazine on the side is even more fun.
- Which magazines inspire you as a magazine maker?
Paul Sethi: WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, THE FACE, TOILET PAPER by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, The Plant Journal, Fantastic Man, The whole crop of contemporary fashion/food/whatever titles and countless self-published fanzines.
Tom Viney: I grew up on the New Yorker and the LRB and ArtForum which are all incredible, and always filled with writing of superb quality, so it felt very right for Special Request to have similar contributors. That said, none of those magazines are hugely groundbreaking in terms of design. They've hardly changed their layout in decades. Of the latest crop of independent magazines I love Mousse for being so (there is no proper word for this, without sounding dickish) iconoclastic and relevant (I guess). I love Apartmento, for doing interiors so well. Fantastic Man, obviously, for defining almost everything you see in magazine journalism now. And then more nichey ones like The Anonymous Sex Journal. There are millions more, but that's what I'm reading right now. They're all good.
- For each issue you will take a different topic, for the first it's food and the next one is about television. Why television?
TV: Television seemed to us a good way forward after food. They fit, somehow. I think initially we were messing around with ideas and threw in "TV" as a sort of joke, but, after a few moments, we realised it was an enormously democratic subject that nobody had ever really looked at in any great detail. It's something people do every day, but never really think about. Also, it means we can write about Dr Zoidberg from Futurama, without crowbarring him into an issue on lobsters or whatever.
- There seems to be a trend for new magazines now to come with very still, calm, peaceful designs, like Kinfolk, Wilder or Cereal. Special Request is quite in your face compared to these titles. Certainly if you look at the design but also at the articles and stories. What do you think of this new wave of magazines?
PS: I'm a big fan. They are well considered, relevant to now and executed impeccably. The sheer quality of what's being printed is encouraging people towards buying magazines in their physical form again. From our perspective this can only be viewed as a good thing. Editorially and aesthetically our vision has remained consistent from the outset. I'm just glad that in the time it took us to produce Special Request, no one else decided to bring anything out that looks or reads quite like we do.
TV: Everything is very, very tasteful these days. And that's great. I mean I love it. My house is painted grey, it's full of Dieter Rams storage solutions and Hans Olsen sofas; it's the kind of house I like to think people might one day pad around in, barefoot, carrying mah jong sets and drinking green tea. BUT I think if everyone produced magazines that were tasteful and understated, newsagent shelves would be a little dreary and mostly monochrome. We knew right from the start that we'd go for something a little different, so we threw a pastel-pink pig up in there. As for the features, who wants to do a feature that's quiet and peaceful?
- What's your favourite food?
PS: If it's made with love, then all of it. Everything… Everything apart from insects. My flatmate cooked using them last week. Not only did they look disgusting, the smell lingered for days. I couldn't even bring myself to taste them. Vile.
TV: My girlfriend and I make pho about once a month. We get a load of beef knuckles, brisket and Vietnamese spices, then pressure cook it all for hours. You're left with about a gallon of thick broth which is about the most warming liquid on earth. Throw some noodles and an egg in there and everything's ok. But aside from the pho, tacos and pizza play a big role in my life. Only perverts don't like tacos and pizza.
Paul Sethi: I still am art editor for Clash Magazine. I've designed and helped produce about fifty issues over the course of four and a half years. It's what I'm passionate about, and what I know well. Doing another magazine on the side is even more fun.
- Which magazines inspire you as a magazine maker?
Paul Sethi: WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, THE FACE, TOILET PAPER by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, The Plant Journal, Fantastic Man, The whole crop of contemporary fashion/food/whatever titles and countless self-published fanzines.
Tom Viney: I grew up on the New Yorker and the LRB and ArtForum which are all incredible, and always filled with writing of superb quality, so it felt very right for Special Request to have similar contributors. That said, none of those magazines are hugely groundbreaking in terms of design. They've hardly changed their layout in decades. Of the latest crop of independent magazines I love Mousse for being so (there is no proper word for this, without sounding dickish) iconoclastic and relevant (I guess). I love Apartmento, for doing interiors so well. Fantastic Man, obviously, for defining almost everything you see in magazine journalism now. And then more nichey ones like The Anonymous Sex Journal. There are millions more, but that's what I'm reading right now. They're all good.
- For each issue you will take a different topic, for the first it's food and the next one is about television. Why television?
TV: Television seemed to us a good way forward after food. They fit, somehow. I think initially we were messing around with ideas and threw in "TV" as a sort of joke, but, after a few moments, we realised it was an enormously democratic subject that nobody had ever really looked at in any great detail. It's something people do every day, but never really think about. Also, it means we can write about Dr Zoidberg from Futurama, without crowbarring him into an issue on lobsters or whatever.
- There seems to be a trend for new magazines now to come with very still, calm, peaceful designs, like Kinfolk, Wilder or Cereal. Special Request is quite in your face compared to these titles. Certainly if you look at the design but also at the articles and stories. What do you think of this new wave of magazines?
PS: I'm a big fan. They are well considered, relevant to now and executed impeccably. The sheer quality of what's being printed is encouraging people towards buying magazines in their physical form again. From our perspective this can only be viewed as a good thing. Editorially and aesthetically our vision has remained consistent from the outset. I'm just glad that in the time it took us to produce Special Request, no one else decided to bring anything out that looks or reads quite like we do.
TV: Everything is very, very tasteful these days. And that's great. I mean I love it. My house is painted grey, it's full of Dieter Rams storage solutions and Hans Olsen sofas; it's the kind of house I like to think people might one day pad around in, barefoot, carrying mah jong sets and drinking green tea. BUT I think if everyone produced magazines that were tasteful and understated, newsagent shelves would be a little dreary and mostly monochrome. We knew right from the start that we'd go for something a little different, so we threw a pastel-pink pig up in there. As for the features, who wants to do a feature that's quiet and peaceful?
- What's your favourite food?
PS: If it's made with love, then all of it. Everything… Everything apart from insects. My flatmate cooked using them last week. Not only did they look disgusting, the smell lingered for days. I couldn't even bring myself to taste them. Vile.
TV: My girlfriend and I make pho about once a month. We get a load of beef knuckles, brisket and Vietnamese spices, then pressure cook it all for hours. You're left with about a gallon of thick broth which is about the most warming liquid on earth. Throw some noodles and an egg in there and everything's ok. But aside from the pho, tacos and pizza play a big role in my life. Only perverts don't like tacos and pizza.
Newscentre pop-up store @ MOBA II
During the big Fashion Event Moba in Arnhem, Athenaeum Newscentre is present every day till the 21th of july, with a wide selection of books and magazines. Curious ?!?!?! take a virtual peak in our store, or drop in between 11.00 and 18.00 every day (thursday till 21.00) in the centre of Arnhem.
Press:
http://www.nrc.nl/mode/2013/06/10/moba-fetisjisme-als-statement-tegen-de-saaiheid-van-de-mode/
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Newscentre pop-up store @ MOBA
We have a nice, big pop-up store at the MOBA in Arnhem full
of our best magazines and books on fashion, art, design, food,
photography and fetishism - this year's topic of this huge fashion event.
We are there till July 21.
Come have a look if you're in town.
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ATLAS QUARTERLY - the first issue
From New York comes ATLAS QUARTERLY with this first issue full of Craft And Curio. It's design is sober and calm. It portaits people behind their craft, fashion, lifestyle and art in a way of it's own.
Every copy has it's own old postcard stuck to the first page, some of the postcards have writings on them, so you get a unique story from the past together with the beautiful magazine.
ATLAS QUARTERLY is a new title and only available in The Netherlands at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum.
Friday, June 7, 2013
THE NEW ORDER #8
THE NEW ORDER is a bi-annual magazine and this 8th issue is the first one we stock in our store. It focusses on the influential people in art, fashion, food, culture and lifestyle. Their aim is to bring insight in the people that have a positive influence on today's society.
It's a thick magazine full of the best photography and interviews. It seems like a hipper version of Inventory, if we should really compare it to another magazine.
Hiroki Nakamaura of Visvim talks about his Japanese fashion label. A day with actor Leo Fitzpatrick (from Kids). Pharell Williams talks about his label and designs.
This is a great addition to our fashion shelf. We also took some copies to the MOBA in Arnhem.
contents of #8:
Damir Doma; Leo Fitzpatrick; kolor; Native Sons; Comme des Garcons Homme Plus; DENIM BY VANQUISH & FRAGMENT and uniform experiment; Vivienne Westwood; BWGH; Saint Laurent; Visvim; SUITMAN; Stussy Deluxe; Gosha Rubchinsky; WISM; DUALFORCES; N. Hoolywood; M2A4Y6U by Kateb Habib; Eating Out in Paris; Pigalle; Multiple Disorder; U.S. Alteration; Hender Scheme; BBC Bee Line; SOTech; C.E.; Balabushka Remnants; Comme des Garcons SHIRT; Still Good; Steve Harrington; Kenzo
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