The magCulture Podcast
Podcast by magCulture
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April 26, 2024 • 56 mins
This episode looks at the role of illustration in publishing, with two guests whose magazines rely on drawn images to bring their pages to life.
Cathy Olmedillas launched her ‘happy mag for kids’ Anorak 18 years ago, and has developed an international audience for its colourfully themed quarterly editions. The magazine is also one of a set that launched early in the noughties that can be viewed today as the ‘original’ indies. She...
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November 24, 2023 • 94 mins
This episode features two of the international guests that spoke at our recent magCulture Live London 2023 event. Both joined us a couple of days after the event to discuss their publications in more detail, revealing a shared passion for print.
After a brief reflection on magCulture Live from Jeremy and Danielle, and a look at some recent new magazines, we hear from our two guests.
Debra Bishop is design director of the New York...
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October 13, 2023 • 50 mins
We learn about two very different magazines this episode, the common thread being events and tenth anniversaries.
After Jeremy and Danielle give an update on the 10th anniversary edition of magCulture Live, London, and discuss a few current magazines favourites from our shelves (including Disco Pogo, WePresent and Litt), Jeremy talks to Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman. Their 28th issue has just been published, but...
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August 24, 2023 • 75 mins
This episode features major players from two different areas of magazine publishing.
First, Rob Orchard, co-founder of Delayed Gratification, discusses reaching the landmark 50th issue of the original slow journalism indie.
Then Gail Bichler, creative director of The New York Times Magazine and one of the most successful and influential editorial designers of our time, shares her thoughts on collaboration, team chemistry and th...
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Ernst van der Hoeven and Kirsten Algera, the creative team behind MacGuffin talk to Jeremy Leslie as their 12th issue, The Log, arrives in shops; Alison Branch, managing director of Park Communications, discusses a new book designed to help clients print sustainably, and we hear an excerpt from a recent shop event featuring Jonathan Simons of Analog Sea Review.
Before we meet our guests, Jeremy Leslie gives a quick update on magCu...
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February 23, 2023 • 72 mins
Jeremy Leslie meets editorial creative director Andrew Diprose at the magCulture Shop, and also trades magazine retail experience with Nicola Hamilton, who opened the magazine shop Issues in Toronto six months ago.
A passionate advocate for magazines and print, Andrew Diprose was creative director at the UK edition of Wired for fourteen years, leaving last year to lead Soho House group’s editorial creative department. While at Wir...
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November 18, 2022 • 50 mins
This episode features two magazines, the long established Buffalo Zine and new launch Linseed Journal.
Buffalo Zine co-founder David Uzquiza joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop to discuss a few recent magazines (Real Review, Baroness, Epoch, Safelight Paper and Elephant) before the two are joined via Zoom from Paris by David’s Buffalo Zine partner Adrian Gonzalez-Cohen. The three discuss the shapeshifting fashion magazine a...
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September 16, 2022 • 65 mins
We hear from two very different magazine makers this episode.
As his book about launching nineties supermag Loaded is published, publishing entrepreneur James Brown joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop to select his indie favourites, including Electronic Sound, The Square Ball and Whalebone. The two discuss how the Loaded phenomenon exploded, and James shares his passion for magazines. His book about Loaded, ‘Animal House’ is publ...
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We welcome three very different voices for this episode: Liv Siddall (WePresent), Dave Calhoun (Time Out) and Natalia Rachlin (Mother Tongue).
First, ex co-host Liv Siddall joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop for a quick look at some new magazines from our shelves. Hear their thoughts on Boys! Boys! Boys!, Plethora, A Profound Waste of Time and OOF.
Liv and Jeremy then talk about the new issue of WePresent magazine, a fascinatin...
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April 29, 2022 • 63 mins
A design special featuring two magazines with highly unique visual identities.
During her first visit to London, Editorial Magazine founder Claire Milbraith joins Jeremy and Danielle at the magCulture Shop to discuss recent new issues including Emergence and Mushroom People, and the extraordinary design of her own magazine.
Then Jeremy talks to Richard Turley about the brand new sixth issue of Civilization, its use of AI to creat...
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March 2, 2022 • 55 mins
This special edition of the magCulture Podcast marks the 15th anniversary of Monocle. Jeremy Leslie talks to the magazine’s founder and editorial director Tyler Brûlé as issue 151 arrives from the printers.
The two discuss the origins of the magazine, its growth over the years, Brûlé’s mistrust of social media, the importance of tone of voice, and surviving the pandemic. They also reflect on the further launches—including the rec...
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February 17, 2022 • 76 mins
The episode opens with Jeremy Leslie and magCulture shop manager/writer Danielle Mustarde discussing recent issues of Good Place La Nueva Carne and Electronic Sound magazines. We then meet two guests, one a magazine-maker, the other a keen magazine observer.
The first is John Holt, the man behind the remarkable LAW magazine. Its 10th issue was our recent magazine of the month. He shares the passion for England and Englishlishness ...
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December 22, 2021 • 50 mins
Our final Podcast episode of 2021 features three magazines linked by name to celebratory foods. Its origins lie in a planned live event; with Covid rearing its head again we converted the idea into a podcast.
First up, art director Holly Catford talks to Jeremy Leslie via Zoom from Bristol about the many deadlines she faces as the year ends, and in particular Cheese magazine. Issue two of the ‘Magazine of Culture’ hits shops just ...
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November 25, 2021 • 40 mins
Riposte magazine founder Danielle Pender joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop, we hear an excerpt from our recent magCulture Meets The Modernist event, and take a quick look back at football mag Mundial.
Danielle and Jeremy share a few finds from the magCulture shelves—Meantime, Now You Know, The Fence and The Plant—before sitting down to talk about the brand new 13th issue of Riposte. Danielle explains how after the pandemi...
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August 9, 2021 • 53 mins
Jeremy Leslie is joined by two guests for this episode; one is a long-established indie publisher, the other a design director known for her branding work. Both have plenty to share about magazine-making.
First, Pentagram partner (and film director)Marina Willer joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop. She’s just redesigned film magazine Sight and Sound. First published in 1932, the redesign is a major revamp of the longstanding title...
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May 7, 2021 • 51 mins
Jeremy Leslie talks to Fantastic Man founders Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers about life in lockdown, reinventing their magazine, their new Reuse issue, and how details matter.
Plus Emmanuelle Goutal pops by the magCulture Shop to introduce her beautiful interiors mag Objection.
The back issue is German design mag Form+Zweck – check their archive at: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/131153/1/0/
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March 30, 2021 • 51 mins
This 23rd episode features 23 magazines, opening with issue 23 of The Gentlewoman and closing with a look back at issue 23 of music mag ’Sup.
In between, Jeremy Leslie takes a look at new issues of Backstage Talks and Failed States, introduces new launch The Home, and talks to The Plant’s Carol Montpart about making their new issue.
Jeremy also meets magazine collector Steven Lomazow, who discusses his archive and the role of ma...
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January 15, 2021 • 73 mins
Our first Podcast of 2021 is a special episode dedicated to i-D as it celebrates its 40th birthday.
Jeremy Leslie talks to GQ editor Dylan Jones about his first job at i-D, then meets the magazine’s founder Terry Jones and his wife and collaborator Tricia.
They discuss the start of Terry’s design career, working at Vogue, and the origins of i-D as a stapled zine, responding to what Terry saw on London’s streets as the liberation...
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October 23, 2020 • 49 mins
Recorded at the magCulture Shop, Jeremy Leslie introduces the latest Podcast, opening with magCulture updates and news.
He's joined by James Hyman and Tory Turk to discuss their Hymag magazine archive – over 150,000 magazines collected together as the basis for a genre-defining digital database of content.
The three start with a look at recent releases, including Interview, Racquet, Post and The Believer, before looking at Hyma...
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July 17, 2020 • 42 mins
After a gap of a few months, the magCulture Podcast returns as the UK loosens the lockdown.
The episode opens with an overview of recent magazines – including Barter Baby, Creative Review, Here and British Vogue – and general observations from Jeremy Leslie, before moving on to Eye.
Recorded during the special one-day Every Eye Ever event at the magCulture Shop, we eavesdrop on part of a conversation between co-owner/art director...
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