Mr. Magazine

The blog is here and the book is coming soon. Jandos Rothstein, design director of Governing magazine and an assistant professor of graphic design at George Mason University, has launched a new blog Deisigning Magazines to accompany the launch of his new book Designing Magazines. The book will be out this coming Fall and can be ordered from now on Amazon.com. Click here to order a copy. Jandos writes in an e-mail to the contributors (I am one of 35 contributors to the book):

While the book bounces from analytical to theoretical to technical,
it’s my hope that the blog will be a bit more topical and dynamic,
which brings me to my main point, If you are interested, I would
like to invite you to consider the blog as your own. If you have any
thoughts about publication design, work of your own that you’d like
to share, or would just like to link back to new material on your own
site, any of that is appropriate for the blog as long as it has value
for the reader. Like the book, the blog can have debate and
alternative points of view, it need not have a monolithic voice.

I believe this book will be a needed addition to the magazine publishing world and to the magazine education world. There are few and far in-between good books on magazines in our country. Jandos’s book promises to be one to fill in some of that gap. I can’t wait to put my hands on a copy.

Once a week, I highlight three new magazines on my web site www.mrmagazine.com. This week the three new magazines are Heal, Laid Low and Map. Read here about these new launches. To be considered for review on my web site, please send a copy of your first issue to Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, Department of Journalism, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677.