I love magazines. I’ve used them for years for a variety of purposes.
I’m not a big reader (for the most part) and the brief stories and blurbs keep my A.D.D. on full stoke.
I like pictures, and I use magazines to make collage drawings (on canvas, for all you analog types like me.) Cut-and-paste, the old fashioned way.
And, I find the typography and the different layouts fun and inspiring.
The big problem is that my wife does not like my stacks of magazines all over the place, and the subscriptions can get to be a little costly. So – I’m down to just a few real subscriptions. You’ll take my Mad Magazines away when you pry them out of my cold, dead fingers. Nowadays, I do the “green” thing, the “digital age” thing and get a lot of my magazines in PDF format from PDFMags.com.
Now – some of the magazines are clinkers, but there are some really, really beautiful magazines out there by individuals, design houses and mainstream sources, and this place seems to have them all – and from all over the world, too…
You can read and look and browse for days. They’ve got it all laid out very nicely, very searchable and super-organized. I’d list some of my favorites, but there are just too many to list.
Design inspiration, photography inspiration, typography inspiration – almost anything you can think of.
Now, instead of giant stacks of magazines, I have a single hard drive stuffed to the gills with magazines from Poland and Portland. Atlanta and Austria.
My wife will have to find other stuff to complain about. Like my inability to get the Mod-Podge out of the carpet from a late-night sketchbook collage session…
