Despite the allure of the internet, I keep finding inspiration in magazines. It's like I'm being reintroduced to the medium. In the last year I've started reading outside of my typical magazine loop, and I've found new enthusiasm for taking them in. The magazine has been part of culture for a long time, now. (Well, at least since 1731, when The Gentleman's Magazine made its debut.) There is a reason so many of us love the glossies...
Apart from the design and imagery of magazines (how is strolling through a gallery all that different from thumbing through a magazine?) and the informative content, the magazines I am drawn to know how to teach me things. For example, cooking magazines offer recipes and techniques to readers. Many of you are like me - we recreate those recipes and oh, what tangible results they yield! Yesterday, I made this Moroccan carrot soup from Bon Appetit, substitute red onion for white. That's just one example, though. A quick jaunt to Popular Mechanics gave me this little gem on how to build a garden shed, which brings me to the online world of magazines...
Many fabulous magazines have never-ending online content. Sunset magazine is a great resource. And then there are the pioneers of the day, like LONNY magazine - digital publications with a hands-on, flip the page format. And they are interactive because they are totally digital! Oh brave day!
LONNY magazine uses a digital publishing platform powered by Issuu. Through Issuu, I can even include LONNY's entire magazine right here on my blog!
I am amazed at how accessible publishing has become, and now I'm dreaming of producing my own magazine. Now where can I find some writers, photographers, and so forth?
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Yesterday I had like an hour to kill and just read through the last 3 issues of Lonny. SO GOOD. But I do like being able to hold a magazine...and take it in the bath.
ReplyDeleteI like that magazines, unlike the internet, have an end. There's a subtle joy in finishing it.
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