thank god.
(in response to this post on my other blog: Saturday, September 13, 2008 "print is dead.")
"What are they thinking? Two design magazines, Monocle, a monthly which is now more than a year old, and Design Mind, Frog Design's brand-new three-time-yearly magazine launched last month, have each staked their ground amid cries that print is dead.
Monocle, the brainchild of Tyler Brûlé, who gave us Wallpaper magazine (eye candy for people interested in design), is a serious publication with 16 issues behind it. Brûlé, speaking to us from London, said Monocle is the magazine he always wanted to do. "I am a serious journalist," said Brûlé, a former war correspondent. And serious consumers of journalism want print.
You can dip into Monocle to explore design thinking around the world, but it delves into politics, business and culture as well. In one issue, Monocle dared to suggest that in the age of digital photography, film is not dead. A recent report on the world's most livable cities that goes beyond empty statistics and list-making includes Copenhagen and Munich at the top of a list of 25; Minneapolis and Portland in the United States languish in the bottom half. San Francisco didn't make the list.
Design Mind, published by Frog Design, a Bay Area industrial design firm about to mark its 40th anniversary, is the company's printed answer to blogs and online chatter about design, business and technology, according to Frog spokeswoman Sara Munday. Frog has consolidated its Palo Alto and San Francisco offices in Wired magazine's former digs at 660 Third St. in San Francisco, and Design Mind is the new voice of its designers.
"It's thought leadership," Frog President Doreen Lorenzo said during a recent California College of the Arts gathering. A few international talents are also invited into Design Mind's pages, but the articles do not stray far from Frog studios in San Francisco; San Jose; New York; Austin, Texas; Seattle; Stuttgart, Germany; Milan, Italy; Amsterdam and Shanghai.
The first issue of Design Mind, which costs $13, focuses on the theme of "numbers," using it as a jumping-off point to discuss aging, collectors, slot machines or mobile phones in China. The next issue will focus on motion.
For just $10 an issue, Monocle gives you a younger, broader, more fashionable and entertaining perspective on design as well as serious journalism in words and pictures. You do the math."
(from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/HO7R12NM5N.DTL)
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