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Yes! Designing the PORT (issue five) cover.

Great promo for the new issue of PORT magazine, out next week. (Click here to view the promo on Vimeo.)

The new issue of Wired Italia looks to be all kind of awesome. Love the cover… reminds me of this also-ace NYT Magazine cover from a while back.

The evolution of Elephant by editorial design guru Matt Willey. Can’t get enough of this stuff. BOOM!

Lots of great covers to choose from for Wallpaper’s annual Handmade issue. I went for the s-s-super ace Supermundane offering. Check ‘em all out here. Oh… in related news, Rob Lowe (the guy wearing the Supermundane super hero outfit) is having an exhibition at London’s Kemistry Gallery next month. Ch, ch, check it.

Promo for new issue of Centrefold magazine… it’s all boxy and tangible and lush looking. (The issue’s also available on iPad… for free!)

David Beckham is Elle UK’s first male cover star. Hanging out for a men’s mag by the British Elle team… c’mon peeps, would be so ace.

Happy birthday Printout!

An alternative to Martha’s Stewart’s white picket fence ideal, Apartamento is the home/interiors magazine of choice for many editorial designers. And with good reason… it’s one of the key players in the current let’s-start-an-indie-mag-and-redefine-a-genre movement. I’m a big fan of this way of thinking. So much so, I wish the movement had a proper name. Like the Bauhaus peeps… or the New Romantics, even.

Come to think of it, maybe these indie mag-makers are a sub-group of the wider-spread hipster movement. Whatevs, they should still have a name… and a club house… and a logo that looks something like one of these.

I’m still working my way through a log-jam of magazines. Latest deelight is issue #08 of Apartamento. It’s a cracker!

Within just a few pages, I welled up…

“And so, eight years later, we stood in the living room, with new packet sliding doors, and a restored fireplace, staring at each other, only to agree that our relationship could not be so simply repaired.” (p8)

…and laughed out loud…

“Could there be a more comforting poster? Rupert Grint [of the Harry Potter films] is a wholly un-intimidating figure; he is a reminder that it’s acceptable to hang onto your childhood dreams of Hogwarts and proof that someone can ‘make it’, even if mildly unattractive and lightly talented.” (p12)

Later in the issue, there’s an article about a holiday road trip in a Defender… “pretty rough but the ultimate cool,” the author writes about the Land Rover classic. (p165) Kinda sums up Apartamento for me. Which is to say, it’s a must read.

Loving the super monochrome graphic goodness of Interview magazine’s Olympiad swimwear editorial. (See more here.)