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Last call for front covers

You’ve suggested some great covers for the the magCulture riposte to the PPA Great Cover Debate. Still time for a few more submissions – I hope to publish the list this weekend.

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New Interview

The cover is promising… the re-launched Fabien Baron/Glenn O’Brien Interview is almost here. Note the new logo. Stand by for the magazine itself.

More here.

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Wired makes a cover

Hear how the Wired art team put together a front cover: a trip to Japan, focus testing the initial design. Sure is a different world in the US.

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Summer break

magCulture has packed up for the summer break.

Back at the end of August with the final Great Cover Debate list – don’t forget to send your suggestion.

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The Great Cover Debates

The PPA’s Great Cover Debate shortlist is now up and open to voting. Not a bad selection in the end, though one or two surprising inclusions (that Empire cover?). I sense some of the covers included are representative of the magazine in general rather than being a great cover in their own right, which is disappointing. Click on the covers to hear the selection judges justify their choice.

Our own magCulture list is coming together well, but keep them coming in and I’ll post our shortlist at the end of August. Slightly different rules for our list – your choice can be from any country and any era.

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Electric Sheep

It’s always a pleasant surprise to stumble across an interesting magazine you didn’t know about, as happened recently in Borders when I discovered issue two of Electric Sheep.

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Remembering The Face

Daniel has started a Flickr group of covers and spreads from The Face. As he says, ‘It recorded late-twentieth century British youth culture like nothing else. So I was sure someone must have collected all the covers together somewhere… but I couldn’t find a thing. Not a sausage.’

He’s started the collection – view it, and add more, here. The replica edition of the launch cover is included, but would be great to see earlier covers added.

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GA covers

These covers of Global Architecture from the seventies and early eighties are too interesting to be buried away in an earlier comment. So here they are, a missing link to Pin-Up, Tate Etc et al. (thanks Warren)

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Publish and Be Damned

The annual fanzine event Publish and Be Damned takes place in London this Sunday.

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Tate Etc magazine

I’ve mentioned Tate Etc before but the new issue is here and has a nice twist – literally – on the cover, with the usual montage developed to include a tilted image, above.

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