Mags and Stuff

I stuck this latest ’stuff’ picture on Flickr a couple of days ago so it was ready to link to this post. It’s got 24 hits already… okay, so that’s not a lot but the same image of some rather attractive perspex rods in a window in Brighton went up at the same time and only three people have looked at them. That’s… some large percentage less than the other picture. Anyhoo, from this I have concluded that pictures of stuff are dead popular. This one’s going to run and run…

This weeks stuff includes a whole bunch of free magazines. To any dedicated magalophile a carefully crafted and well designed free magazine is like a little piece of christmas has been clipped off the end of the year and fallen down the calendar. You’ll find quality free publications in most cities these days. London has a few that you’ll find around the traps. These are Boicozine’s current faves…

Loud & Quiet [loudandquiet.com] has grown from A5 to A4 with some rather fetching new uncoated stock (that’s non-shiny paper to the uninitiated). Downside is, it feels more lightweight now. Upside is that is looks well classy. ¶ Art & Music is pretty decent [artandmusicmagazine.com], if very calm looking magazine, with some cracking articles and a refreshing editorial tone. ¶ Fun looks proper ‘expensive art paper’ with it’s special colours and fold-out poster format but then it features commentary on stuff like dogging! Blimey, didn’t see that one coming! It’s all in good, er… fun though, and gets away with being cheeky and cheery enough to make you care. Nice one Fun [greatenjoyment.com]. ¶ Ello, it’s Monocle again [monocle.com]. Could help meself. It’s their best cities issue with their first Design Directory supplement and a spiffy cover designed by Ken Leung and James Melaugh [dontyouthink.co.uk]. Nice work if you can get it, I say. ¶ Red sunglasses. Not posh, just red. If they’re red, you don’t need posh, do you. It’s enough that they’re red. I’ll be wearing these a lot I think (even though I can’t see a bloody thing through them). ¶ Black Skull Candy. Skulls are a bit popular aren’t they? Do you think it’s because we’ve all got one? This one contains Extra Salty Salmiakpulver and seems to be wearing chips style sunglasses. Probably from Cybercandy [cybercandy.co.uk]. ¶ Dazed & Confused [dazeddigital.com] has a new Art Director and this time it’s someone who actually likes typography (which is lucky cause being a magazine, it’s chock full of the stuff), Rémi Paringaux. No longer do I feel alienated by their uncaring and unthoughtful misuse of dodgy typefaces. I’ve bought the last two issues now, the first for a long long time. Now the UK edition can give their Japanese sibling a run for it’s money.

That’s it fer now. More pictures of stuff soon, I promise. They’re dead popular, yknow.