Links for 2007-08-12
Sunday, August 12th, 2007- Creativity Online I just signed up for a complimentary 6 month subscription with the magazine version of this graphic design website.
Emigre has just published its last issue. As a graphic design student in the mid ’90s, I would pour over the magazine’s pages to seek creative inspiration. The experimental design magazine featured the fonts and layouts designed by the husband and wife team of Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko. Here’s in-depth coverage of the Berkeley-based company’s history. According to the e-mail announcement I received today, only the magazine will be discontinued.* Emigre the company “will happily continue on. (They) have much work left to do.”
*Back issues are sold here.
Pinoy employees at computer megastore Fry’s Electronics must have a lot of clout. Tagalog movies are featured prominently at the DVD section:

A few months back they had one whole magazine rack dedicated to Pinoy magazines:


I feel like Ed McMahon for Publisher’s Clearing House for touting magazines two entries in a row but I’ll go ahead and do it anyway, because this one’s worth it.
Those in the Philippines, watch out for Live the Life Magazine, a Christian magazine aimed at Filipino teenagers. It is the brainchild of blogger Ganns of Superblessed, who quit his academic job to pursue what he believes is a higher calling. He’s gathered together a cadre of talented writers, artists and designers to produce a hip magazine with content that resonates with today’s youth. It comes out on newsstands on November 27.
Adobe debuts this month Proxy, a quarterly PDF magazine created to help designers “get in touch with and be inspired by peers and experts in the design community.” Adobe’s original foray into magazine publishing was its printed run of Adobe Magazine from 1995 to 2000. An archive of the PDF versions can be found here. In 2002, Adobe’s Pacific division began publishing an online magazine of the same name. Archives are here.