In the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, a CBS advertisement features the first video player embedded in a print magazine.  The tiny video screen automatically plays when the reader turns to the two page spread promoting the coming fall lineup of CBS shows.
Americhip developed the paper-thin hardware and the loud video begins after a brief pause when turning to the page.  The battery powered technology allows the player to show up to 40 minutes of video, including sneak peaks and featurettes.  The advertisement will only be featured in magazines sold in the New York and Los Angeles markets.  For [...]

The legendary California type foundry Emigre Graphics, founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, is releasing a “best of” book. This will be the first from the influential design magazine Emigre since it stopped publishing in 2005.
512 page Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issues – Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design will cover the best from a quarter century of the magazine’s content.
They explain the story:
During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, graphic design was experiencing one of its most exciting and transformative periods. The Apple Macintosh computer had been introduced, design schools were exploring French linguistic theory, [...]

Last year, we discovered Mygazines, then a legally dubious website offering user submitted magazines online for free. After a hiatus to figure out a better business plan, Mygazines has returned to again offer users the ability to view a collection of magazines for free.  However, this time around the site will not allow members to upload magazines to share, but rather controls the content for “verified publishers.”
The site is looking to expand from just magazines and will hopefully continually be improving their selection.  The former rich selection of the Economist, Playboy and others have been replaced with Park World, [...]

The Spring 2009 issue of LTD is now available to the lucky few who can get their hands on it.  LTD Magazine is a limited edition lifestyle magazine, which is distributed exclusively to a pre-selected group of tastemakers and available at premium boutiques around the world.
Printing at most 10,000 copies of each issue, subscriptions ($100 / 4 issues) are by invitation only and must be approved by LTD. The content of the magazine covers a wide range of topics including brands, products, fashion, photography, design and interviews. The print magazine is a publication of LTD+, a New York boutique marketing [...]

The Economist, the international affairs magazine, recently established a market for subscriptions in India through a unique SMS marketing campaign.  The tiny share of The Economist in India’s news media marketplace drove the magazine’s utilization of a miniaturized mobile news update.
Every day at 11 a.m. the magazine would issue a free summary of headline news and accompanying links to a new mobile updates channel.  The snippets of interesting stories brought mobile readers to the newsstand, bringing sales up by 15%.  Over the course of the year, The Economist increased circulation in India by 39% and subscriptions by 26%.  Campaign India [...]

Hewlett-Packard is making a bid to become your local newsstand and boutique printing press all-in-one, albeit on a global scale. With their new service MagCloud, H.P. has provided would-be publishers with the infrastructure to produce magazines on any scale – from single issues to thousands of copies – for the flat rate of 20 cents a page. A reasonable cost when you consider that a professional printer will typically charge an initial fee – generally steep – based on a required number of pages and the copy shop down the road charges somewhere in the realm of 10 cents a [...]

As we mentioned, the Vice Magazine fashion issue (pig and all) has hit the streets and as always, it’s a great read. In their city-vs.-city matchup, the magazine makes some bold claims about what’s in and what’s out across the globe. In a nutshell, it boils down to this:

Girls in NYC are sluts; boys are rockabilly
In Stokholm the boys are Xanax incarnate; girls don’t care
In Barcelona boys are dressing like girls and girls are dressing like boys
Melbourne boys are dressing up in a retro kind of way, and the girls are just copying years’ old trends
Girls in Montreal are cute [...]

Taking the notion of limited edition to the extreme, Swedish magazine Tare Lugnt have released their third issue as a tattoo. You can see the magazine being “published” below.

[via shu and joe & Selectism]

Spun from the Berlin-based illustration and design organization and festival Illustrative e.V., the new art and culture magazine Objects–Journal of the Applied Arts grabbed attention from the global creative industry when it launched this past fall. Presenting international trends in design and discussing the duality inherent in “applied arts”, publishers Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss are fascinated with both the physically produced object and craft as a process in itself.
Evidence of their interest in both angles, the first issue features new creative work from European illustrators, as well as academic essays from critics and designers across the globe.  Publisher Pascal [...]

UK teen mag Sugar has launched a new social boomarking tool for teenage girls called Sugarscape. Sitting alongside its already existing sugarmagazine.co.uk, the new site, currently in beta, is aiming to be an aggregator of cool gossip, music, quizzes and ‘stuff’ linked to by the sugar team and the readers themselves.
Users can register and download the sugarscape toolbar, then customise their personal page or ‘scape’, and add anything they find on the web by ‘sugaring’ things with comments and opinions. Involving more of a networking aspect than other bookmarking tools, ‘scapers’ can enhance their status by earning points for their [...]

Pout is a a great little ’square’ mag published in the British city Bristol. We’ve always thought these FREE city guides/mags are great and ripe for a sponsor.
Maybe a brand could sponsor a ‘network’ of these magazines and maybe fund quarterly editions to sell through a dozen city?
Pout Magazine
Ad Contact: Ben Littlewood

[Updated] HEAD Magazine is an online publication designed to showcase the creative talents of established and emerging visual artists from all over the world.
HEAD Magazine was founded in 2003 by Steve Kraitt and Nicolene Hannan, and provides an editorial and advertising-free platform for exhibiting the work of photographers, artists, illustrators and designers.