magCulture Podcast #5, London/New York

You can catch my favorite magazine moment of the year on the magCulture Podcast #5, available via Soundcloud. Hosted by Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall, and recorded at the magCulture Shop, the show features 10 magazine smarties sharing their year-end best. Included in the podcast is wisdom from Steven Gregor (Gym Class), Steve Watson (Stack), […]

The 2015 Newmanology Holiday Book Gift Guide

Welcome to the Third Annual Newmanology Holiday Book Gift Guide. Here’s our collection of 10 favorite books released this past year. They are all strong visual and creative collections, featuring design, imagery, and writing that highlights artwork, magazine design, illustration, typography, and more. Be sure to check out previous Newmanology gift guides from 2013 and […]

Issue #2 of Fiera Magazine: A Textbook Lesson in Indie Publishing

The second issue of Fierra, the biannual magazine covering product and furniture design fairs, is now available, and it’s a real treat. Designed by our friends at magCulture, it’s co-published by Katie Treggiden (Confessions of a Design Geek) and Jeremy Leslie (magCulture). This rich issue is a giant step forward from their first, packed with […]

Are Magazine Apps Dead? A State of the Art Roundtable

Just a little under four years ago I headed down to St. Petersburg, Florida for an iPad conference at the Poynter Institute hosted and organized by Mario Garcia. A small but very engaged group of newspaper, magazine, and digital designers gathered to see and hear reports on the very first wave of app creations. My […]

The Modern Magazine: Essential Reading

“What Is a Magazine?” asks Jeremy Leslie on the first page of this wonderful new book. There are a multiplicity of answers (of course), and you’ll find many of them in this visual feast, filled with graphic delights and surprises. It’s the book equivalent of a giant newsstand, and readers are treated to an endless display of […]

Thanks to Everyone Who Has Supported My Favo(u)rite Magazine

Thanks to everyone who has been helping to promote the My Favo(u)rite Magazine benefit project. If you haven’t seen this amazing collection of magazine covers, created by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky, look at this small excerpt via the Society of Publication Designers. Here is a small list of folks and websites who have given the project some […]

Sep 1, 2012 By Robert Newman and Jeremy Leslie

A Conversation Between Jeremy Leslie and Robert Newman for Gym Class Magazine

Jeremy Leslie is the editor/publisher of magCulture, the magazine news, design, and opinion website. This interview/discussion originally ran in Gym Class Magazine #8, in 2011 Jeremy Leslie: It is a strange time for magazines publishing, with plenty of anxiety about the future. How do you see things progressing? Robert Newman: Well, I’m much more optimistic […]