A special lazy man’s double bumper edition of the magazine reviews video series featuring Film Comment [filmlinc.com/fcm] / Death+Taxes [deathandtaxesmagazine.com] / I.D. [id-mag.com] / Wallpaper [wallpaper.com] / Frame [framemag.com] / Pin—Up [pinupmagazine.org] / Ideas Illustrated [ycnonline.com] / Fire & Knives [fireandknives.com]. Stay tuned for the top mags for the the decade vid coming real soon.

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Publications featured in the November edition our monthly reading list (just made it again, huh) includes 032c [032c.com] / Kasino A4 [wearekasino.com] / Dwell [dwell.com] / Little White Lies [littlewhitelies.co.uk] / Mark [mark-magazine.com] / Neo2 [neo2.es] / Graphic [graphicmag.kr] / Acne Paper [acnepaper.com].

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Publications featured in the October (just made it, huh) edition of this monthly video podcast type thingy include Martha Stewart Halloween [marthastewart.com] / Time [time.com] / It’s Nice That [itsnicethat.com] / Lifelounge [lifelounge.com] / Arena Hommes Plus (surely one of the last remaining magazines that doesn’t have a website) / Fantastic Man & The Gentlewoman [fantasticman.com] / Interview 40th Anniversary [interviewmagazine.com].

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A couple of months ago the City of Melbourne held it’s now annual State of Design festival [stateofdesign.com.au]. This is the first time I’ve been able to attend and was a little shocked at how poorly Graphic Design was represented compared to the other design disciplines featured. There were only a handful of Graphic Design events, one of which was only accessible to existing AGDA members [agda.com.au] which made no sense what-so-ever. Iron Designer was crazy fun [irondesigner.studiobinocular.com] but, again the architects muscled in on the show (surely they deserve a festival of their own, these guys aren’t very good at sharing the limelight) with their ‘wacky antics’. It could have just been a bad year, I guess.

Stephen Banham [letterbox.net.au] and friends have pulled together a mini programme of graphic and typographic gems in the past under the banner of Character [character.rmit.edu.au] but seemed to be too busy this year. Instead he presented, with the help of a cast of design bods from RMIT University, a modest but well designed A5 booklet containing a guided tour of one city block and the items of interest contained within. In this video I follow the route detailed in this booklet and share my discoveries on a weirdly hectic Sunday afternoon in olde Melbourne Town.

Publications featured in the September (yeah, I know it’s a little late, my humblest apologies) edition of this monthly video podcast type thingy include Un Sedicesimo [unsedicesimo.corraini.com] / Monika [monikamagazine.com] / Pyramid Power [pyramidpower.ca] / Little White Lies [littlewhitelies.co.uk] / ‘Sup [supmag.com] / Graphic [graphicmag.kr] / Artichoke [archmedia.com.au/artichoke] / Pop [thepop.com] / Paris Vogue [vogue.fr].

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Publications featured in the August edition of this monthly video podcast type thingy include Tokion [tokion.com] / Design Reporter [designreporter.com.au] / Pigeons & Peacocks [fashion.arts.ac.uk/pigeonsandpeacocks] / Above [above-magazine.com] / I.D. [id-mag.com] / Interview [interviewmagazine.com] / Gym Class Magazine [gymclassmagazine.com] / The Playground [theplaygroundmagazine.com]

This just in: James Jarvis [jamesjarvis.blogspot.com] gives animation a go, collaborating with Richard Kenworthy from Shynola [thedirectorsbureau.com] who worked with David Shrigley on Blur’s video for Good Song [via Vimeo] and heres’ the result… More please! (Maybe a Vortigern [amostoys.com] cartoon? How ace would that be?)

Just about 15 minutes of your life you will never get back — this a Boicovideo experiment, attempting to mix a documentary style format with some supreme type geekery. Possibly annoying, maybe even boring. Hopefully not too historically inaccurate (if I’ve messed up let me know). I don’t know, you be the judge. Music featured by Unrest [teenbeat.net] / Belbury Poly [ghostbox.co.uk] / XX Teens [myspace.com/xxteens] / Broadcast [broadcast.uk.net] / Pleasure [myspace.com/pleasuremusic] / Sportsday Megaphone [posikids.org] / Boo Radleys & High Llamas [highllamas.com] (BTW I didn’t get clearance on any of this music so if there’s a problem please let me know — michael(at)presspublish.info).

Boicozine visits the magazine boneyard with a selection of ace mags that are sadly no-more. R.I.P. Dummy, Select, Work, Relax and Good for Nothing.

Bargains! Bargains! Bargains! Get on down to Somerset House for the åbäke Garage Sale tomorrow to pick up cheap and cheerful Kitsune CDs [kitsune.fr] and loads of other stuff as part of the top Wouldn’t It Be Nice exhibition [somersethouse.org.uk] (sweeps the floor with the Design Museum’s ‘Design Cities’ exhibition [see 959]) ❤ Boicozine’s favourite ex-i-D Art Director, Stephen Male [via Flickr], has taken to helm at US Vogue [vogue.com] although you can’t tell just yet. We’ll be keeping a close eye on those butt-ugly horizontally scaled cover lines to see if he can make them right ❤ It’s all about collectives these days. This week’s collective (don’t worry, it’s this isn’t going to be a regular feature) goes by the name of the Goodfellas Network [goodfellasnetwork.com]. The Goodfellas are a truly international group for creative types including ex-Boicozine contributor Luis Mendo, who now runs the very excellent BladBlog [bladblog.nl] and Joachim Baan [anothercompany.org] amongst others ❤ Matt Pyke aka Universal Everything [via Vimeo] has been curating a collection of moving image works on the theme of synasthesia through his Advanced Beauty website and has just announcing the first Advanced Beauty DVD, available for pre-order now [advancedbeauty.org] ❤ Another ex-mitDR [thedesignersrepublic.com] employee, Michael C Place is a name any design geek will recognise instantly as Mr Build, well just ‘Build’ really [wearebuild.com]. He is currently doing a nice line in graphic interactivity through his Flickr site. Join in… [via Flickr] ❤ Every band should have an archive like this, for the lovingly collated artwork alone… [niagara.edu/neworder]. A weirdly elaborate version of the usually stark record sleeve for New Order’s True Faith is shown above.