10:00 Registration
10:20 Introduction
Notwithstanding the difficulties of post-war austerity, the magazine culture of 1950s played a crucial role in the ideological battle between nascent social-democracy and reaction in Britain. Paul Rennie will describe this battle of images and the projection of a new social reality during the 1950s in Britain.
Dr Paul Rennie is Head of Context in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. Paul is currently working on a book about Design and the GPO.
From newspaper colour magazines to the underground press: highlights from 40 years of magazine design.
Simon Esterson is art director of Eye magazine.
11:45 Tea & coffee
With design playing an increasingly central role in publishing, Jeremy Leslie presents an overview of the latest trends and key developments in contemporary magazine design.
Jeremy Leslie is Executive Creative Director at customer publisher John Brown, co-founder of the bi-annual independent magazine conference Colophon, and regularly writes and speaks about magazine design. Read his blog at www.magCulture.com
What happens when the idea of magazine (and the magazine brand) is squeezed from print into web and collides with ‘television’,‘radio’,‘phone’,‘game’,‘forum’,‘map’,‘conference’ and all of the other things arriving and transmuting in the internet? New names and new thinking are required.
William Owen is a partner in Made by Many, a strategic design consultancy working with publishers, broadcasters, corporations and start-ups to create new kinds of rich and social media. He is the author of Magazine design, a history of magazine design in the twentieth century (Lawrence King 1990) and an occasional contributor to Eye.
1:30 Lunch
News, fashion, politics, food, gossip, culture, humour, real-estate and listings all rolled up in to one magazine and forced out on a weekly basis. And then more of it on the web.
Luke Hayman was design director of New York magazine. He is now a partner in Pentagram’s New York office.
An interview with Monocle’s Creative Director
After studying BA typography, Richard Spencer Powell got a job at Wallpaper* magazine, where he worked for 4-5 years, latterly as Art Director. He left in 2002 and worked as art director for the creative agency Winkreative. He became Creative Director of Monocle in 2006.
4:00 Tea & coffee
5:30 conference ends
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