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Remember when magazines were your only option? If you long for those days of old, then you’ll enjoy this gallery of popular websites reimagined as magazines. Thank god for the internetz.
If you’re the type of person who routinely wraps presents in the funny pages, then you’ll be as thrilled about this as I am. Wrap magazine is so graphically beautiful that you can literally use it to wrap gifts in when you’re done reading its pages. It’s the first magazine intended to be reused in such a way and it’s genius for a couple of reasons – the recycling aspect, obviously, but because it’s a magazine about illustration, it’s also giving the contributing artists extra exposure. So smart. The back cover is even perforated so you can split them out into eight note cards.
Link via Design*Sponge
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With all the preposterous pet items in SkyMall, it’s easy to wonder just how the catalog would look to a pup who could read. I think Funny Or Doe has done a great job at interpreting the catalog as a dog would see it.
Link Via Laughing Squid
My one-year-old likes to rip pages out of magazines and shove them in her mouth, and now, thanks to Volkswagen, she might actually get something edible the next time she does that. VW South Africa’s “Eat the Road” campaign places pages made of “glutinous rice flour, water, salt, propylene glycol, FD&C colour, glycerine” in publications like Auto Trader with the slogan “Eat the Road. Seriously, eat it.”
Have any brave souls out there given this a shot yet?
It’d probably look something like this. Although agitating a range safety officer (RO) is usually a bad idea. You don’t want to become the that guy at the range.
Image by Robb Allen using a photo by Oleg Volk.
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Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is a continuation of the popular Typeface/Off series. We’ve tried to guess movies and TV shows by their title fonts; now we can try to figure out what magazines and newspapers are represented by their typefaces. I scored 7 of 10, which would have been 8 out of 10 if I typed decently. You can do better! Link
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Upon hearing that Rolling Stone magazine plans to open its own restaurant, Slate author Justin Peters imagined reviews for restaurants opened by other magazines and news sites, such as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Cosmopolitan. Here’s his review of The Huffington Post restaurant:
What a selection! Marvel at the 47-page menu of hot entrees, most of which are sourced from other, better restaurants. While you can’t beat the price, remember that you get what you pay for: The food is often reheated and many of the “celebrity chefs” who dabble in the kitchen don’t appear to know how to cook. Remember to pay cash, as the staff has been known to “aggregate” patrons’ credit card numbers.
Peters is quite willing to poke fun at Slate, too:
While the dishes are sometimes unappetizing, the kitchen will occasionally convince you that everything you know about curly fries is wrong. The opinionated waitstaff makes it clear that they know what you want better than you do; don’t be surprised if your order of chicken elicits a riff on why you actually wanted trout. We hope the owners know what they’re doing, because the business model—the food is free, but there are ads on the plates, glasses, tablecloths, and forks—seems iffy at best.
In the comments, describe your visit to a Neatorama-themed restaurant.
Link via Hit & Run | Photo: US Department of Health and Human Services
Web Designer Depot has a good round-up of the most controversial magazine covers that have graced the newstands.
While some controversial covers have worked and sold more magazines, or won awards for the editors who made the decision to go to press with them, others were embarrassments that the publication had to either apologize for, or fire an editor over.
A few memorable ones came to mind when I started reading, and sure enough, they were there.
MagazineArt is an extensive collection of magazine cover art from the 19th and 20th centuries, featuring hundreds of different publications. You could spend hours browsing the archives here! Shown is the January 1924 issue of Theatre Magazine. Link -via Metafilter
