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Category: Magazines

  • Item Idem for 032c

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    Tokyo-based Item Idem contribute three pieces to the latest issue of great indie mag 032c. You’ll find a little preview here.

  • Otaku Kaidan

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    Otaku magazine’s next issue, their fourth, is titled Otaku Kaidan, and covers all things horror in Japan. From their site: KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    BRUTUS (639) asks “How do you live?” and reports with a look at the ways people find to make their homes what they are. I tend to be quite fascinated by these peaks into people’s homes (an obsession I share with the way people work as well), and so I love this sort of feature.…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    PEN (220) heads to Spain and bids us “Welcome to Basque Country.” The feature covers major cities, and all the spots and eats you’ll want to take in on a trip there. The latest PAPER SKY (25) is all about the “California Morning,” covering all the sorts of things — from cafes to markets —…

  • Vice Fashion Trend Report 2008

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    In its new fashion issue, VICE offers up a global trend report for 2008, including a look at what the kids in Tokyo are wearing. Via PSFK.

  • Moncton in Monocle

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    I was slow in picking up the latest issue of MONOCLE (April 2008) — only did so today — and was absolutely shocked to see that this month’s “Expo” piece was on the Moncton Flight College in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. See, Moncton is my hometown, and it’s definitely not the kind of place that…

  • The End of Boon

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    Over at META no TAME, Marxy reports on the end of BOON, a men’s street wear magazine that in the nineties had print runs as high as 800 000!

  • Heso

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    HESO is a free bilingual culture magazine that you can pick up around town (at these places). The current issue is #11, but this is the first I hear of it. I’ll try finding an issue soon. Yuki has an illustration in the current issue.