Posts Categorized Magazines

Fray Issue 1 Ships!

In Books, Fray, Magazines on 28 January 2008 with 5 comments

Fray Issue 1 is coming soon to a mailbox near you! These packs went out to contributors on Saturday - they get a few copies each - and the single issues will go out to subscribers today. Mad props to May at the Portola Post Office for dealing with our many boxes with a smile.
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Let’s Talk Binding

In Fray, Magazines, Publishing on 16 January 2008 with Comments Off

I’ve always thought of Fray as more of a book series than a magazine. That’s because most magazines are made to be disposable, but we want issues of Fray to last. So instead of using a traditional magazine “perfect” binding, which falls apart after a few months, Fray uses a sewn binding that’s usually reserved […]

New in The Magazineer

In Magazineer, Magazines on 13 January 2008 with 1 comment

New in The Magazineer: Southwest’s Eclectic Spirit
(And, yes, the guy sitting next to me on the plane thought I was nuts.)

New in Fray: Busted in Jena

In Fray, Magazines, News, Politics, Stories on 7 January 2008 with Comments Off

When a group of black students in Jena, Louisiana, defied tradition and sat under a “whites only” tree, no one could have predicted that it would become a national story, that Reverend Al Sharpton would lead a march through town, or that Michael David Murphy would quit his job and travel to Jena to meet, […]

Upcoming Appearance: TOC in NYC

In Books, Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Event, Magazines on 3 January 2008 with Comments Off

I’ll be speaking at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference for the second time on 11 February 2008. If you’re involved in publishing, this is one conference not to miss. Register with the code “toc08em6″ for 10% off. Here’s my talk topic:

Audience as Authors: Creating, Managing, and Sustaining a Community of Contributors
“When the going gets weird, […]

Rhymes with “Neener”

In Elsewhere, Magazines, Weblogs on 26 December 2007 with 3 comments

Introducing The Magazineer, a blog for people who make and love magazines.

Making “Hand” Bags

In Craft, Fray, How to, Magazines on 20 December 2007 with 6 comments

A while back I scored a Gocco from a friend. A Gocco is a novel screen printing kit from Japan that’s no longer in production. I stowed it away in our office, waiting for a good project to bring it out. Today was that project.
I wanted to do something cool for Fray’s first subscribers. Since […]

I told you it was only on hiatus

In Books, For Sale, Fray, Hooray, Love, Magazines on 26 November 2007 with 5 comments

Yes, that Fray.
Illustration by the enormously talented Kevin Cornell.

Launching a Magazine the Un-Dumb Way

In Business, Magazines, Quotes on 16 November 2007 with 6 comments

Dave Eggers, on launching magazines:
With Might, we did it the dumb way. We thought we had to do 100,000 circulation and we had to have all this advertising, and it was never going to happen and no one got paid, we were all perpetually disappointed, and it folded. We found out that wasn’t the way […]

T-Post: Magazine in the form of a T-Shirt

In Design, Magazines on 8 October 2007 with 1 comment

T-Post comes six times a year, contains one story and one illustration per issue, and is printed on cotton. That’s right, T-Post is a magazine in the form of a t-shirt.
I just received the September issue, pictured above. The story, printed on the inside of the shirt, is about companies turning away from the murderous […]