Reading Matter

 

The magazines section of the Chapters Indigo store, Eaton Centre, Toronto. Photographed by Sam Javanrouh.

Comments

[John D]

Great composition.

[David]

And kudos to the gentleman crouching defiantly in the “home decor” section.

[CIngram]

“In New York one may find every class of paper which the imagination can conceive. Every grade of society is catered for. If an Esquimau came to New York, the first thing he would find on the bookstalls in all probability would be the ‘Blubber Magazine’, or some similar production written by Esquimaux for Esquimaux. Everybody reads in New York, and reads all the time. The New Yorker peruses his favourite paper while he is being jammed into a crowded compartment on the subway or leaping like an antelope into a moving Street car.”

So PG Wodehouse observed, and that was 100 years ago.

[Sam]

This one's pretty good too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/205482483/in/set-72057594119812021/
And this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/49220875/in/set-72057594119812021/

[tehag]

Is that "O" (for Oprah) magazine in Home Improvement? What a strange classification system they must have!

As best I can tell, almost all these magazines have pictures of women on their covers, with the exception of the Gourmet section, which probably ought to.

[sk60]

Is there a prize for counting how many mags are in the picture?

[Spiny Norman]

"And kudos to the gentleman crouching defiantly in the “home decor” section."

Hey, now. I'm as straight as straight can be, but you'll as likely find me in the "home decor" or "gardening" sections as the "automobile enthusiast" section. Home ownership does that, I suppose...

My only current magazine subscription:

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/pages/

OK, so it's more "hammers and saws" than "colors and textures", but still...

[Spiny Norman]

It's a sign I'm "old fashioned", I guess, that everything there is available online, but I still love browsing magazine racks, and having an actual printed copy in my hands... and saving old issues if there's something really interesting in it.

On a related note, it's depressing how many interesting internet links I have saved on my computer that are now dead.

[David]

Spiny,

Well, there are some magazines that aren’t available online, or aren’t available in full, or that are handy to have around for reference. And there are some that are pleasing as objects to handle. Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, for instance, is a handsome product. It even has an agreeable smell.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/3112373977/sizes/o/in/pool-712655@N20/

http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?tag=david-thompson

[rjmadden]

David, enjoyed your 'Watchmen' review(s) for Eye, btw. Good stuff.

[Spiny Norman]

OK, I should have said "most are online"... ;^)

"And there are some that are pleasing as objects to handle. Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, for instance, is a handsome product."

Oh, I agree. I love a well-designed book or magazine, printed on quality paper. To be honest, I have no real interest in electronic "books" like Amazon's Kindle.

20 years ago when I worked as a graphic artist in a newspaper art department, we subscribed to several such publications, including a couple of British graphic art periodicals (I think they were quarterly) - because our production manager wanted to stay "ahead of the curve".

Oh, I would not be surprised if the agreeable smell is very much intentional.

[witwoud]

I bet Blubber Magazine smelt nice too.