Linefeed Reading List—August 2011
Would you like some waffle with your magazine reviews sir and/or madam? Here you go then. Help yoself to tasty slab of magaziney goodness with this eclectic mix of mags. In this here video podcast you will witness… — Print [printmag.com] / [@PRINTmag] — The Plant Journal [theplantjournal.info] — Wallpaper* [wallpaper.com] / [@wallpapermag] — Juke [...]
Typosurvey for Make Shift
Last weekend saw the creation of a new magazine called Make Shift, put together in 48 hours by a crack team of writers, designers, illustrators, infographics designers, photographers and other creatives at London’s Southbank Centre. It was pretty darn impressive seeing this group of enthusiasts mucking in to get all the editorial content done on [...]
What’s Up #93: Sam Ashby
Mr Sam Ashby [iamsamashby.com] is a prolific graphic designer whose love of ‘underground’ cinema is helping push little seen cult classics back into the spotlight. Having edited, designed and published his own film magazine, Little Joe [littlejoemagazine.com], he has also designed a commemorative booklet for the Scala Forever season of films now showing at various [...]
LineRead #4 W.I.P.
After the ace response to out decadism issue [magcloud], we’ve started work on the next edition of LineRead, our print-on-demand companion to this here blog. For this next issue we’ve decided to embrace chaos. Welcome to The Randomiser. With no page plan and a swag bag of content, the idea is to completely wing it [...]
Random Play #10: We are the Lambeth Boys
It’s been suggested that the closure of youth clubs in the outer boroughs of London has a lot of do with recent riots. We are the Lambeth Boys (from 1959) demonstrates the type of social cohesion these clubs have traditionally sought to provide within the capital. This is part 1. Parts 2-5 continue after this [...]
A Brief History of Indie #1
Or rather ‘A Vague History of early 90s U.K. Indie’. The first in an irregular series of podcasts here on Linefeed that seek to document the golden age of the independent record label as well as the bands, clubs and movements that surrounded them. This first edition focuses on a much-discussed group of artists that [...]
Ideas for the City: Queenhithe
This post is part of a series on ideas for the City of London. Go to [linefeed/ideas-city] to read more. A farm in the City I’ll get to the actual River Thames in a later post. For now I want to focus on a tiny, yet surprisingly significant, little inlet within the City of London. [...]
