Colophon 2009 Kick Off at Press Conference in Luxembourg with (from left to right): Mayor Paul Helminger, producer and curator Mike Koedinger, Casino Luxembourg Manager Jo Kox and Minister for Communications, Jean-Louis Schiltz. Missing on the picture: Jeremy Leslie (UK) and Andrew Losowsky (USA), the two co-curators.

Colophon is an international biennial which brings together in Luxembourg, during the weekend of March 13 to 15, 2009, a public from around the world to celebrate excellence and innovation in the independent magazine industry.
With a circuit of fifteen exhibitions spread across Luxembourg City and approximately forty hours of conferences, creative roundtables, presentations and workshops, Colophon reaches out to a number of different audiences. The symposium attracts an international crowd hailing from the four corners of the earth. For this second edition, the organisers are planning to transform the entire city for the duration of this one weekend in March. In addition to the symposium, which addresses both professionals and students, the Luxembourg general public and that of the Greater Region will be able to visit the many exhibitions, participate in the daytime workshops intended for children and attend the nightly festivities.
Initiated in 2005 by Mike Koedinger, Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky— three media professionals—, Colophon was born within the framework of “Luxembourg and the Greater Region, European Capital of Culture 2007” and in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain. Its success was instant with visitors coming from 25 different countries.
Political support
“For the City of Luxembourg, its trades people and its cultural players, Colophon 2009 is set to have an important economic impact, because it will be beneficial for consumption, especially if you consider the 2,000 nights of hotel bookings which it will generate,” says Paul Helminger, Mayor of the capital and ‘patron’ to the symposium. “But beyond this economic impact, it is also the positive impact on our brand image and the promotion of the City of Luxembourg throughout the whole world which is of interest to us.” And promotion there certainly will be, because if the event’s main purpose is to celebrate the independent magazine, the magazines return the favour  with gusto with more than one hundred of them offering up an advertising campaign diffused throughout 35 countries of the world at a value of approximately 450,000 €. To this effort can be added the related reports in the international press, newspapers, blogs and digital magazine sites on the Internet.
“It’s an event that perfectly articulates Luxembourg’s ambition to continue developing its role as a centre of excellence for the associated activities of the media and ICT. Colophon is a fresh illustration of the dynamism of the sector and helps to position Luxembourg on a new and promising axis,” declares Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Communications and ‘patron’, within the Government, of the symposium.
“The independent magazine is at the centre of innovation in the written press”, explains Mike Koedinger, initiator and one of the curators. “It is a place of freedom and excellence in creation; where media professionals can express themselves without constraints. It is here that they create for themselves the trends of the international market.”
Exhibition Circuit
As far as the exhibitions go, a veritable circuit is proposed which winds its way through the capital. First stop is the Luxembourg Casino – Forum of contemporary art, to pick up the Colophon programme (10 € including its map of the city and valid entry to all the venues) and to see the first major exhibition “WE MAKE MAGAZINES” which allows you to discover 110 independent magazines, from 30 countries, in interviews, in pictures, and of course, to flip through.
Next, ten cultural venues – from gallery beaumontpublic to the Chapel of the Abbey Neumünster Cultural Arts Centre while passing by the Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg or the kiosk of the AICA — will host the exhibitions for “TEN GUEST MAGAZINES”. From Berlin, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris and even from Mexico, these magazines, originating in ten different countries, will appropriate these Luxembourg cultural venues over the period of one weekend. Here one will find, among other things, Sang Bleu (subcultures and tattoos), Good (a magazine “for people who give a damn”), Kasino A4 (melancholic magazine), Volume (architectural project) or BabyBabyBaby (contemporary cultures).
Direction Mudam for “BEYOND KIOSK – MODES OF MULTIPLICATION” where Christoph Keller assembles 500 selected publications originating from his archives of 6,500 artists’ books, magazines, videos and catalogues. This itinerant and evolutionary show presents “the most relevant independent editions of contemporary art” and has been shown in twenty institutions since 2001. For its passage in Luxembourg, the installation of the publications is entrusted to Italian designer Martino Gamper.
Next, drop in at Extrabold to see the installation of Australian magazine SNEAKER FREAKER before going to the Carré Rotondes for the two “Luxembourg” exhibitions. DESIGN BACKSTAGE where the Design Luxembourg association is showing samples of work from a score of its members to demonstrate the importance of design beyond its aesthetic aspect. “Good design solves problems and adds value to products and services,” underlines president Guido Wolf. And to finish, tribute to CAFÉ CRÈME, the first international magazine published in Luxembourg. “During our ten years of existence, from 1986 to 1995, we displayed the work of approximately 150 contemporary photographers,” explains Paul di Felice and Pierre Stiwer, the founders of Café Crème.
All the exhibitions will be open throughout the weekend, but they can also be visited during the NIGHT OF THE MAGAZINE Friday March 13 when all the locations will welcome visitors until 10 PM, after which the party continues at the Carré Rotondes.
The symposium
A hyper intensive programme encompassing forty hours of presentations and discussions spread out over the three days of the symposium in two distinct spaces at the Luxembourg Casino – Forum of contemporary art.
And just like any real magazine, the symposium will be informative and diverting at the same time. Thus, it will propose many formats: panel discussions, lectures, on stage interviews-dialogues, Pecha Kucha presentations (presenting an idea in 20 images, each one has the screen for no more, and no less, than 20 seconds) or markets for photography portfolios and graphic illustration that bring together a hundred creatives.
And how, with all these magazine lovers united in one place, could they not want to launch the creation of a new magazine together? The three curators take up the challenge and invite the public to collaborate and carry out, together, a 100 page magazine over the course of the three days. To facilitate this, a “newspaper office – graphic studio” workshop will be installed at the Casino Luxembourg and, through periodic multiple briefings, the missions will be given out to interested parties. At the symposium closing, during a ceremony with the participation of Minister Jean-Louis Schiltz, the digital version of the magazine will be shown on the big screen at the Philharmonie.
To prolong the pleasure, a film cycle dedicated to media is on the programme at the Municipal Cinematheque during the month of March, and a kiosk of magazines of the world will be installed at the Luxembourg Casino in collaboration with Fellner Art Books.
In spite of the fact that the financing is not yet entirely in place, Mike Koedinger remains optimistic a few weeks before the event: “We have succeeded in gaining the confidence of the Government, of the City of Luxembourg, and of many cultural institutions and private cultural players as well as private partners. We have succeeded in getting all its actors to collaborate in making Luxembourg the place of excellence to accommodate this international event. And today we ask that Colophon be perennialised to become ‘Colophon – International Independent Magazine Biennial’ in Luxembourg.”
Colophon 2009 – International Magazine Symposium from March 13 to 15, 2009 in Luxembourg City across fifteen venues. Programme detailed and updated regularly, information and inscriptions here

do you read me?! opening on the 30th of September – finally good Magazines have found their place in Berlin.

At do you read me?! you will find a curated assortment of contemporary Magazines and Reading. The shelves – specifically designed for the shop by Greige/Buero fuer Design – are constantly in flux, being filled with the latest issues from “A Prior” to “Interview” to “Zoo Magazine”.

Providing consultation, research and creating individual assortments for clients do you read me?! stands out as the specialised shop for magazines. Amongst famous galleries and better cuisine – the shop in Auguststrasse 28 offers a comprehensive range of art, culture, fashion, photography, design, architecture, literature, music, theater, society, politics and business titles.

Alongside relevant magazines to stay up-to-date with, like “Brand Eins”, “Du,” “Lettre”, “Monopol”, and “Vogue,” you will find unique Magazines like “Achtung”, “Another Magazine”, “Baseline”, “Foam” and “Nico”.

do you read me?! is no Newsstand – the classic glossies are only available by order! Make a shopping list, get the latest magazine news, or get your very own magazine box containing your orders and recommendations – for everybody that appreciates beautiful, intelligently written and well made magazines, do you read me?! in Auguststrasse 28, Berlin-Mitte, is the perfect place.
Do read more magazines!

do you read me?! GbR
Magazine und Lektüre der Gegenwart
Mark Kiessling, Jessica Reitz
Auguststraße 28
10117 Berlin-Mitte

Tel. +49-30-695 49 695
Fax +49-30-695 49 696

info@doyoureadme.de
www.doyoureadme.de

Newsletter: news@doyoureadme.de

Short Biographies:

Mark Kiessling
Having studied design at the Cologne Model (KISD) and founded Greige/Büro für Design eight years ago in Berlin. He is working as a successful Art Director and Designer for well-known fashion and cultural clients.
Together with his partner Rupert Kopp, he designed the Interior of do you read me?!, with the support of Uwe Andrés, designsfiction.

Jessica Reitz
Is a professional bookseller and bachelor of communications working for Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus for several years as head of marketing.

Statement:
“We provide a subjective selection of beautiful, sapiently written, well crafted magazines in the scope of art, culture, fashion, photography, design, architecture, literature, music, theatre, society, politics and business. We look forward to compiling, together with our clients, the most beautiful, most interesting and most innovative magazines available from around the globe.”

Cabinet magazine has open a new place for exhibitions and events in Brooklyn! The programme will starts in mid-October and will include exhibitions, screenings, talks, dinners, symposia, performances, workshops, boating expeditions, and more. The door is located at the 300 Nevins St, Brooklyn, but keep it secret!

More information at www.cabinetmagazine.org

Photo: Grant Willing

This is a magazine – Episode 25: Activities in time and space

Intra-dimensional episode with: aids-3d, Center for Tactical Magic, Damon Zucconi, Francesco Spampinato, Grant Willing, Harm van den Dorpel, Loshadka, Nikola Tosic, Oliver Laric, Shane Hope , Yoshi Sodeoka.

With site-specific performative installations – Happening 20 September 2008 8pm

8.00pm Francesco Spampinato x Sbudellatron “Unbounded”
8.30pm My Cat is an Alien “Beyond yr shadow – I am / I am not (here?)”

Careof DOCVA
Fabbrica del Vapore
via Procaccini 4, 20154 Milano
+39 02 3315800
careof@careof.org
www.careof.org
www.docva.org

The episode continues from 19 September – 11 October 2008, Tuesday to Saturday 3.00 – 7.00pm

http://www.thisisamagazine.com
http://www.thisisnotamagazine.com

Hot Desk / Paris
Saturday 20/09/08 from 12h to 22h

For Paris event, Point Ephémère host the first step of the project with the release of the special Manifesta issue of the magazine J’aime beaucoup ce que vous faites and a one day show Last chance to see the Show. This new issue takes the notion of “Broken English” as starting point for exploring language experiments. In response to Raqs Media Collective’s proposal, the magazine focus on the transfer of their notion of value of residue into language and tries to figure out the creative potential of failure, errors in translation and miscommunication. Last chance to see the Show is  conceived as a fiction for a forthcoming exhibition that never happen. Discussing the process of a show, the hidden part of an exhibition is revealed to the audience, turning traditional formats such as artist talk, interviews, press conferences, set up into something unexpected.

Hot Desking- Paris/Istanbul/Rome/Stockholm – Manifesta 7 special project
Hot Desking is a collaboration between Manifesta 7 and Curatorlab/Konstfack* as part of the exhibition The Rest of Now curated by Raqs Media Collective in Bolzano, 2008,  which takes The Rest of Now as a point of departure for further discussions and explorations. The project consists of four broadsheets and four discursive events in four cities – Rome, Stockholm, Paris and Istanbul – which function as independent but related satellites of The Rest of Now. The broadsheets and events link ideas, themes and discussions initiated by the exhibition in Bolzano to the local context of the four cites.

mono.kultur is a central platform for a potentially larger network of activities within different areas of culture, with the mono in the name not only standing for the mono-themed approach within the magazine, but also as a reminder to adhere to a certain attitude and philosophy within everything that mono.kultur do.

First proper external collaboration on a new fashion label under the moniker of mono.gramm will be showed this week during London Fashion Week at the temporary showroom in the East End.

Private View on 16.09.2008 from 18h – 22h or at any other time during the opening times specified below.

Showroom 14.09.2008?–?26.09.2008, 12h?–?19h.
yfbs, 207 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8QP, UK, www.yfbs.co.uk

Magazine Palais/ Issue 7 – Fall 2008

New issue entirely devides with Jeremy Deller: a conversation with the artist around the exhibition, an exclusive interview of the glam rock wrestler Adrian Street, an article about eletronic music in the 1920s in USSR, numerous portfolios, and also a complete guide selection. For futher informations: http://www.palaismagazine.com

In the frame of the exhibition From a revolution to another.
Carte Blanche to Jeremy Deller. with Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns.

Carte blanche
Every year the Palais de Tokyo gives an artist carte blanche. This carte blanche is a powerful concept that structures the Palais de Tokyo’s programming. The artist, placed at the center of the decision-making process, is free to devise and stage more than an exhibition, a real program. This carte blanche to an artist, revealing a kind of map of the artist’s brain, desires and influences all at the same time, is an opportunity to tackle the processes of creation and esthetic cross-fertilization from a novel angle. Artists are never where we expect them to be. The way they look not only at our reality and our everyday life, but also at the works of their contemporaries is unique and illuminating.

Jeremy Deller
After Ugo Rondinone in 2007, this year Jeremy Deller is being offered carte blanche to come up with an exhibition. Born in 1966 in London where he lives and works, Jeremy Deller was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 2004. His multi-form body of work brings several artistic disciplines into play, combining a passion for music, social phenomena and popular traditions. Jeremy Deller succeeds in bringing these separate realities into dialogue with one another by creating unexpected meeting grounds. Thus for the project Acid Brass (1997) he got a traditional brass band from a Manchester factory to play pieces of acid house music.

From one revolution to another
Taking as his starting point the “Folk Archive” collection which assembles British folklore items and documents, such as customized motorbike helmets, collections of tattoos, or banners from demonstrations, D’UNE RÉVOLUTION À L’AUTRE (From one revolution to another) follows a path that takes us from the British Industrial Revolution to the contemporary digital revolution. Thus we witness in turn the history of electronic music in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the birth of rock-’n'-roll in France based on the Golf Drouot in the 1960s, and life in industrial Northern Britain in the 1970s. The exhibition, devised in collaboration with 9 other guests – Peter Clare, Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matthew Price, William Scott , Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns – invited by Jeremy Deller, presents archives, previously unpublished photographs, films and audiotapes in which Eddy Mitchell, Léon Theremin, glam-rock singers and English wrestlers, the Happy Mond ays, a mechanical elephant, etc. are all muddled up together.

September 26- January 4 2009
Show opens
Thurday September 25th, 2008
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: press visit
From 8 p.m. to midnight: public opening

More information:
Exhibition L’art en Europe, Domaine Pommery à Reims, 5 place du Général Gouraud 51100 Reims, Tel : +33 03.26.61.62.63, www.pommery.com
Ends 31st December 2008. Catalogue published at the occasion, print: August 2008.

Thanks to all participants! The Magazine Lounge entitled “Printing the Fashion and Fashioning the Print” was inaugurated last Monday 2nd June at the Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna.

The event was accompanied by lectures on Magazine Culture given by Jeremy Leslie, Colophon co-founder and Executive Creative Director at John Brown Group- who made an incredible A to Z overview selection of magazines- Joachim Baldauf, Publisher of Vorn Magazine explained his carrier of editor and the relation with his work as photographer. The Spanish fashion photographer Luis Sanchis presented a choice of his best shots: Courtney Love on a beach, Leonardo di Caprio with hangover, Robbie Williams hanging in the sky of LA. The next day was the turn of Juan Montenegro, Editor in Chief and Creative Director of b-guided; Marcus Ross, European Fashion Director of VICE and Ken Miller, Editorial Director of Big Man and Editor in Chief 2002-2007 of TOKION. In Vienna, mood is about Magazine Culture during the festival!

Magazine Lounge curated by Colophon.
Haus Wittgenstein Parkgasse 18, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Ends: 8.6.2008

Exhibition-Lounge inside the sublime Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna…

…which one choosing?…

…Jeremy Leslie’s lecture on Magazine Culture

…Rush during the opening…

…the calm after the storm…

by Jeremy Leslie

Here are some pictures from the Colophon room at the 8 Festival for Fashion and Photography last week. There was lots of interest in the exhibition, which was curated by my Colophon colleague Mike Koedinger and featured a selection of independent magazines including Kasino A4, Vorn and B East. The hanging mechanisms worked well – people could flick through the magazines but not remove them.

The exhibition and accompanying talks took place at the Haus Wittgenstein, a beautifully maintained modernist villa with the tall ceilings that seem typical of Vienna. The city is one of those smaller European ones that effortlessly maintain their historical architecture while adding stunning modern buildings, the Haus Wittgenstein being an older example.

The theme of the festival was magazine culture, and I gave the opening talk, an overview of current independent magazines. To give it some structure I presented an alphabetical selection from Amelia’s Magazine to ZingMagazine. There’s a QuickTime movie of my slides below. The choices aren’t a list of my favourites, but an attempt to present a varied selection of independent titles. And yes, I did cheat for X.

Video at:
http://magculture.com/blog/?p=1901#more-1901

Summer 2008 Issue. On Thursday 10 April 2008, was launched the new Nico international at Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris.

More info at:
http://www.nicomagazine.com/home/

Nico interviews & fashion
230 pages
10€
International Magazine, Edition France
Published by www.mikekoedinger.com

Nico on tour:
10.04.08 Paris Galerie Magda Danysz 11.04.08 Dusselddorf Radical Advertising Exhibition
17-18.04.08 Milan Salone internazionale del Mobile
25-28.04.08 Hyeres 23rd Festival international de mode et de photographie
02-05.06.08 Vienna 8festival / Festival Fashion & Photography
02-04.07.08 Barcelona Bread And Butter

For who’s coming see you there!

Through parallel fashion and photography competitions, the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc since its creation 22 years ago, gathers every year under the spotlight ten young fashion designers and ten young photographers under the patronage of an international jury.

An observatory of trends as well as an international launching pad, the Hyères festival has showcased, more than 300 first-time collections by new fashion designers from all over the world and exhibited the works of over 80 young and innovative photographers. On every edition, the festival presents at the Villa Noailles —the landmark cubist villa built in the 1920’s by Mallet-Stevens — several exhibitions that explore the permeating boundaries between art, photography and fashion.

The Festival’s public increases year after year, attracting designers, industrialists, trendwatchers, agents, buyers, textile federations, distributors, gallerists, museum directors, department stores.
The festival’s aim is to offer young talents a genuine professional opportunity by providing them with material and logistical support, as well as profitable contacts and intensive media exposure.
The general public is invited to vote after the fashion shows for an audience award.
All exhibitions are admission-free and remain open until early June.

Hyères 2008
23ème Festival International de mode et de photographie
25, 26, 27 and 28 April
Exhibitions until 1st June 2008

More info at:
http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com

contact:
T +33 (0)4 98 08 01 98
contact@villanoailles-hyeres.com

New issue of Blaadje is out now! Release of Blaadje issue Nr.4 was held in Amsterdam on Thursday 6th March 2008.Inspiration a capricious thing? Of course not. It comes standard with Blaadje 4. Blaadje 4 is the best medicine against falling leaves and hibernation. With Blaadje Nr.4 go completely inspired in 2008. Blaadje 4 is the reference for editors, advertising agencies, modeling agencies and for every communications professional.
“For the operation of Blaadje and the annual Magazine Party, we have decided to set up a foundation: Stichting The Black Tiger. The foundation is named after the giant prawns that are served annually at Totempaal’s Gamba Party for publishers and marketing managers. The foundation has been deliberately created to make it clear that Blaadje and the Magazine Party are non-profit projects. The foundation sit Ernst Coenen, Frank Meijer (Totempaal Media) and Rupert van Woerkom (Hemels)”.

More info at http://www.blaadje.nl/site/

From 032c Bulletin March 2008. Save the Date: Saturday, 5th of April 2008
Next to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin-Mitte, 032c will open its new MUSEUM STORE designed by KONSTANTIN GRCIC with an exhibition and party on Saturday, the 5th of April 2008.
Invitation to follow.
LEAD MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR

032c caused a mild media sensation in Hamburg last week by winning unexpected the prestigious German media award LEAD MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR against AD (Condé Nast) and STERN (Gruner & Jahr). BILD Zeitung says: “Ein globales Magazin!” Thank you.

www.leadacademy.de

NEW YORK TIMES T MAGAZINE ON 032c
There has been a lot of coverage of the new design aesthetic of 032c Magazine, but hopefully the final word on the new ugly phenomenon has now been said in the current issue of T: The New York Times
Style Magazine.

www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/09/style/t/index.html#pageName=09Rawsthorn