Colophon Redux, Part Three

Further reportage from Colophon2007 [colophon2007.com], the International Magazine Symposium, held at Casino Luxembourg in early March.

Saturday, Day Two

From the vaults
Magazines serve to document of our times, lives and ideals so it was more than appropriate for Horst Moser, designer and author [independent-medien-design.de], to present a selection of images from ‘the world’s largest private magazine library’. His discussion underlined just how magazines stand as documents of our times, often more relevent than books or film because they often feature discussion on various media within their pages. Examples were culled from his extensive and very impressive library.

Slanted and enchanted
Some cheeky scamps had set themselves up in the mailbox room and were creating and defacing various portraits and posting them up on the walls at Colophon2007. Turns out it was fellow blog enthusiasts, Slanted [slanted.de]. There is now a whole wall of these images in the foyer which you can see if you visit the Colophon2007 Flickr group [flickr.com/groups/colophon2007].

I also posted a discussion on the round table topic for today, which was ‘Editors vs. Designers’ but most of it has gone. I may attempt to resurrect it at a later date. As a type of summary, didn’t seem to be a lot of tension there (this could have been because most of the magazine creators on the panel were from independent magazines). The hot topic seem to be more about creativity (designers and editors) versus commerical concerns (advertisers). Which fitted neatly into Sundays round table chaired by Boz Temple-Morris. I also missed possibly one of the more exciting discussions of the day presented by David Renard. I’m having trouble admitting this because of the resonating discussions about his presentation. I even got caught up, mid bus ride, in a candid discussion (literally) between Mr Renard, Samir Husni (Mr Magazine) and curator Jeremy Leslie, luckily bowing out before having to admit that I had not been in on his talk. Oh the shame! Still I’ve fessed up. Now, maybe someone can fill me in on what happened… please.

Colophon Redux continues…