A Good Week for Stuff

It’s been a good week for stuff. I was going to do a ‘reading list’ [boicozine/reading-lists] but going through the little stacks of magazines piled up around the place I found I was still catching up with mags I was talking about way back like I.D. (not i-D), Dwell, Wired, Good… loads of American mags, which is a bit spooky. Our postbox, on the other hand, was looking a lot more interesting…

I love a magazine that messes with the format of magazines. A magazine that throws you curve balls in terms of pace and flow. Pin-up [pinupmagazine.org] is my fave architecture magazine at the moment for this reason. Issue 4 contains some pretty lush visuals too, including this rather fetching sunrise, as photographed by Ann Woo [annwoo.com]  / My prediction over the next twelve months or so, is that we’ll start to see the more established and well regarded blogs venturing into tactile formats such as printed publications. Charlotte Cheetham’s Manystuff have jumped ahead of the pack with Manystuff #0 [manystuff.org], which runs with the copyline, ‘More Real Than Fiction’. Designed by the ever inventive Pierre Vanni [pierrevanni.com]. It features glossy full colour pages (definitely not POD, folks) and contributions from Mr Alex Bec [alexbec.com], Mark Kremers[tex-server.org] and Damien Poulain [damienpoulain.com]  / Fever Zine [myspace.com/feverzine] is publishing in it’s purest and most joyful form. It is pure zine in all it’s black photocopied and pink covered glory. The low-fi format belies the high calibre talent behind the publication, edited by Alex Zamora and designed by boicozine contributor, Simon Whybray [simonwhybray.com]  / A special thank you to the fine folks at The Future Laboratory [thefuturelaboratory.com] for my MystaBot [tomybots.de]. Now if only I could get it to do the dishes too  / This week I was lucky enough to be part of a select few to make use of the Nike ID Studio [nikeid.nike.com] at the invitation of Mr Alex Bec who has completed work on Nike’s Art of Football [nike1-1.com] project on behalf of YCN [ycnonline.com] and ShowStudio [showstudio.com] (phew). I didn’t really cover a lot of the event on this here blog because of the scale and scope of the thing. It was massive. You can check out most of the fab Art of Football action on YCN’s Flickr page [flickr]  / Jim Henson lives on in the rhelm of plastic collectables with these ‘City Critters’ [flickr]. The one I got looks surprisingly calm compared to the rest of them. I think it’s because it’s the only one without those crazy, googly, muppet eyes. / The Chap’s Mega Breakfast arrived in the post from Lo Recordings [lorecordings.com] with an ace cover image by Graham Harvey for Non Format [non-format.com]  /
The blank CD is often sadly neglected by manufacturers as some where to splash a bit of design nouce about, unlike the blank cassette was in the past. 5 inch [5inch.com] recognised this fact a few years ago and have been producing dead brill CD designs to placate designers everywhere. Notebook is the boico house fave ’cause you can scribble all over them and they still look good.