This week, a group of editors and designers launched Sight Unseen, a web magazine that’s dedicated to the lifestyle of modern design. It features content on art, fashion, food, and photography, book excerpts, peeks into studios and factories, and special spotlights on what designers are buying and keeping in their homes. “Through revealing interviews, first-person accounts, and behind-the-scenes documentation of process, Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.” The site was created by Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer, two former editors at I.D., and designed by Thomas Porostocky, another I.D. alum best known for his infographics for Good, Wired, and Seed.
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If you live in San Francisco, you’ve got plans this Friday night. Make sure you get to the Brava Theater for “Pop-Up Magazine,” a live magazine “created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience.” Fellow magazine junkies have been performing the magazine since April, bringing stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio to life on stage for one night. Showcasing work by contributors to The New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, National Geographic, and others, Pop-Up Magazine unfolds like a magazine: short reviews, dispatches, and provocations anchor the beginning, then longer features follow. “Pop-Up seeks to explore the varied world around us, through stories and ideas … in a 75 minutes show” says the website. Then the contributors and readers, so to speak, adjourn to the lobby bar for Q&A and, well, fun. Love it!
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Talk about reader engagement! National Geographic, famous for its stunning world photography, is letting readers into the magazine with an extention of its Your Shot project. Publishers just announced National Geo will release a special Your Shot edition, featuring more than 100 reader photos, selected by the magazine’s editors. The coolest part? National Geo teamed up with Consolidated Graphics and HP so readers can have their own customized edition with their photo on the cover. HP’s Indigo electrophotographic presses allow for the covers to be printed like a digital copies, no plates needed. Check it out.
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LIFE magazine and photo agency Getty Images have teamed up to bring the iconic LIFE brand back to life—this time in the online world. The new LIFE.com, launched today, lets you prowl through the LIFE and Getty photography archives for free, promising “the photos you won’t forget.” Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici reports in his blog: LIFE.com will instantly become “the single largest online cache of professional photography, with 7 million pictures and counting.” Take a look.
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