Linefeed Reading List—December 2011
It’s a jumbo bumper Chrimbo! edition of the Reading List for December. Chock full of ace mags for your holiday reading pleasure including Wired (US) [wired.com] / Foam [foam.org] / Pin—Up [pinupmagazine.org] / C20 Magazine [c20society.org.uk] / Midcentury [midcenturymagazine.co.uk] / Head Full of Snakes [headfullofsnakes.com] / Response [agda.com.au] / Smith Journal [smithjournal.com.au] / KnockBack [knockback.co.uk] [...]
Graphic Design in Boystown U.K.
When did the UK graphic design scene become so gender biased? Was it a gradual thing? How did we miss this? Which leads onto my next question… Why are male graphic designers so damn competitive about every little thing? Where are the designers that value harmony, balance and level-headedness. The ones that don’t need to [...]
Product! Poster Set #1
We’ve had a whole heap of linefeed related products on the boil here at Linefeed HQ. Most of them remain under wraps until next year but we thought we’d share the first of a few print-on-demand experiments with you now. Namely a set of 3 prints available via Society6 [society6.com]. Two of the prints, ‘I’m [...]
What’s Up #103: Jonas Damon
Jonas Damon [jonasdamon.blogspot.com] is a product designer, creating new and ultra slick takes on every products as well as devising a few quirky new concepts, still in keeping with his smooth, pared down aesthetic. His cork bricks, in particular, stacked Jenga style, wouldn’t look out of place in a exhibition on the theme of modern [...]
Podcast: PoMoRadio
Inspired by the V&A exhibition, Postmodernism, on from now until 15 January [vam.ac.uk], comes PoMoRadio. Don’t worry, does not contain any posthumous picking over of the theorem that underpinned this ‘movement’. Instead it’s approx. 40 minutes of 1980s pop protagonists warbling away amongst a sea of synth, strings and samples. Ahh, the 80s. Included in [...]
New Mags: Cagoule
This is exciting! Present Joys [presentjoys.com], the makers of happy mag for kids, Anorak [anorak-magazine.co.uk], Ploc and the fine folk that helped bring Fire & Knives [fireandknives.com] into the world have released a happy mag for adults! It’s called Cagoule, has a saucy abstract ‘adulty’ cover and you can bet the writing will be spot [...]
