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last magazine i read was in the summer, a free copy of RES.
i dont buy them and rarely read them.

Print is Dead, as Egon Spengler said so well back in '84!

Doctor Egon Spengler, I presume?

:D

i can't get enough of magazines, especially the small/free ones you find in cool shops in foreign countries. you might not be able to understand everything, but they always seems to provide fresh design ideas and insights.

other than that, i'm a regular consumer of: res, IdN, refill, dazed, creative review, grafik, blowback, good for nothing, vice, complex, golf punk, hip hop connection, idea [japan] and many more.

I get Lodown when ever that comes out, vice when I can find it, Grafik, Dazed and confused, Another magazine, occationally I grab the nearest skate mag, portfolio and source, oh and when I can Arkitip

The only sub i have is Mac User, but I also read Sound on Sound, Dazed & Confused, iDJ, Future Music and The Wire. We also have a little local mag called 24/7 which is pretty sweet.

The Economist, New Scientist, and the odd linux format. something to do on the train, plane or toilet. design mags don't really cut it these days.

Too much editorial pretending to be balanced in print. at least on the web you kinda know it's gonna be one sided and can check somewhere else.

oh and most ads of pretty people trying to sell me crap that I dont need.

creative review, blueprint, grafik, vice, res, dazed and confused, economist, new scientist, iD. just about anything.

...as well as any of those free zines that you find in record shops.

I just look at the pictures and read the pull quotes - haven't got the attention span to read all the words... :)

blueprint, grafik, colors, res, tokion and wired magazine are the ones that i read, and even though the internet has so much axess to mass information the information from magazines do stimulate my ideas.

;)

im making a mag... its crap actually... well no its goodish but if anyone wants to give me money for printing... :D i mean come on for a 17 year old still at school getting interveiws with mr scruff and mr jago aint too shaby is it?

dont worry no editorial pretending in this mag... its only 32 pages long and lots of pictures...

Don't worry about the print costs TommyP, get yer finished product well, erm, finished, and take it from there...

ok cause you care, the ones i read are: vice, fact, good for nothing, full moon empty sportsbag, stand off (which was good, is it dead?), ditched (is it dead?), creative review, grafik, marketing week (flick), observer magazines, british vogue (somtimes), harpers (sometimes).

the ones i have pretty much given up are: iD, arena, style magazine, independent magazine, design week, nma, marketing, blow back, stool pigeon, numero.

i used to like Jack. does that make me a loser?

Full Moon Empty Sportsbag. Choice!

warlord, victor, shoot, white dwarf, metal hammer, smash hits, car

school stuff!

Some of the fashion and design mags I used to read have pretty much become vacuous, bloated bodies fighting in their own plastic and boring effluents. Or, my imaginative, intellectual and/or social needs/desires have changed, lol.

I used to read: dazed and confused, the face, ID, sleazenation, creative review, modern painters, contemporary art, the guardian & observer newspapers (both gone down the pan; avoid the cultural/lifestyle supplements at all costs), macuser, macformat, new scientist, wired, the wire, vogue, elle, fact, vice, another magazine.

I still/now read: vice; fact; sometimes the wire; new scientist (only if there's an exciting headline, lol); sometimes get another magazine in case the supplement at the back's any good; and er, a couple of local zines (Beard, Christ). I haven't come across any other magazines with interesting, GOOD content in a long time. Maybe try some of the ones mentioned above, but am suspicious that most will be just another design rag.

most of the computer magazines are a rip off, so I onlly buy them infrequently. the design, art and fashion mags are dull, and i don't read them at all.

to be of some use to your original question though - I can't read for very long off a screen, so I still buy magazines. Love the magazine as fetish object too.

I'm a complete magazine addict. This is gonna make you laugh but I've always believed that they will be the documents of our times that historians look back on to see how we lived, more so than books, websites etc. Maybe this will change again soon...

I'm just finishing up designing a monthly music magazine. I've designed 8 issues altogether. It's been intense. The financial gulf between the big publishers (like Emap and IPC) and independents is quite staggering. Indies have to be so careful, whereas the big guys can put out whatever shite they like.

Mags I rate: Tokion, Self Service, Lodown, Grafik, i-D (peeked in the late 80s), Good for Nothing (has it closed?), Stranger, NEO2... probably loads more...

I set this up if you're interested... http://nmca.boico.net/

Nice work mooski. I did invest in that book of Esquire covers that featured the great "Ali crucified" cover. Can't remember the art directors name at that period in Esquires history but great stuff.

mooski on magazines:

my only subscriptions are to esopus, which is really good for luxuriant printing materials and the three penny review which is fun if you read books a lot.

and I hate ID and newsweek.

...and I love and hate wired.

I noticed that many people prefer to read the online editions of magazines or newspapers because this way they don't have to spend anything on the actual thing. My vice is buying fashion magazines such as Zappos, Zappos Shoes and many more. I know I can find them all online but I like to collect them all and keep them. I was looking at a 5 year old magazine and wondered how the fashion changed, especially for shoes. Don't you collect magazines just to keep track of the changes?

i do both. its very time consuming...
i dont read the same content on different mediums however its nice to be able to do both. print is dying but it is also becoming more appreciated matter, yes? beautiful magazines, paper, ad, graphics can be appreciated more when tangible. but online is cheaper.

my picks: Tokion, Creative Review, Grafik, Eye Mag, Idea Mag, Fader and Nylon