Category: Magazines

Momus loves the slow life/LOHAS magazine KU:NEL, and tell us why in his latest Click Opera post. I don’t usually cover KU:NEL in my magazine round-ups, but I always pick it up for Cafe Pause.

BRUTUS (632) goes green with its “Botanical Being” issue, first with a tour of botanical gardens from around the world, and then with various pieces that cover all things organic. They do stray a bit, and interestingly, with one article that looks at glass architecture — as in I.M. Pei’s Pyramide du Louvre — that…

The latest issue of PLANTED (6) focuses on love and romance, with a articles on scents and arrangements. The seed insert is a pansy. DESIGN NOTE (16) covers “Fashion & Graphic Design,” with a look at art directors working with fashion brands, stores, catalogs, and magazines. The issue starts off with a look at Kenya…

A few reasons why you might want to pick up the latest issue of KATEIGAHO INTERNATIONAL (Vol. 18): media artist Alexander Gelman talking with a sword maker, a piece on anime that includes profiles of Studio 4C, Satoshi Kon, and Mamoru Hosoda (director of THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME), and a guide to Tokyo’s…

CASA BRUTUS (94) takes us on a tour of “Hot Places to Visit 07/08,” with destination ideas both in and out of Japan. I always enjoy these, but wish they would put out some guides, like the WALLPAPER ones, that would compile all of these tips, because I’m not about to start taking notes on…

MAGAZINE PICK-UP ALERT: It didn’t take long before I bought a copy of the new issue of TITLE (96). With a cover sporting the words “2008: A Magazine Odyssey,” you just know I had to pick it up. It’s a terrific look at the world of magazines, with the feature claiming “No Magazine, No Life.”…

The feature on business in Japan that I mentioned last week, appearing in the current issue of THE ECONOMIST, can now be read online. Via Tokyomango.

TABlog interviews the founder of HERE and THERE, Nakako Hayashi.