For this 40th anniversary episode of the Podcast, Jeremy is joined by Danielle Pender, founder of Riposte, and Kai von Rabenau, founder of mono.kultur. They discuss the return to print of the two magazines after a three-year gap, and the changes and learnings the two publisher/editors have noted over the long runs of their magazines.Danielle publis…

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 lau…

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 magaz…

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…

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 d…

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 Analo…

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, leavi…

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 pa…

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 Ja…

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.…

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 Rich…

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 …

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 r…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 meet…

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…

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 rele…

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 magC…

This episode was recorded a couple of weeks ago, ahead of the current Coronavirus shutdown. We post it here as an antidote to all the other current news, but plan to address the effect of the virus on publishing in our next episode.---------------------------Ricarda Messner from Sofa and Flaneur joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop to talk ma…

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For this episode, Jeremy Leslie is joined at the magCulture shop by Marc Robbemond from Amsterdam’s Athenaeum magazine shop.We also hear from Ariane Spanier of Fukt magazine, listen in on David Hillman and Caroline Baker of sixties classic Nova in an excerpt from their recent magCulture Shop event, and podcast producer Lucy Dearlove removes her hea…

Our latest Podcast, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London, is a bumper edition that hangs loosely around the theme of change.The episode opens with Jeremy and Liv flicking through recent new mags, starting with The Face, freshly relaunched after a 15 year hiatus. Can it possibly live up to expectations?The pair also look at this year’s print ed…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London.The episode opens with a look at magCulture’s late summer plans, leading into a an overview recent new issues including the first issue of Belissimo and fourth issue of Safar Journal. We also hear from Steven Gregor at Gym Class about the zine-y nature of his ne…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London with a dash to Manhattan for some chat from our NY visit.The episode opens with a look back at how The Sunday Times Magazine reported the Apollo 11 moon landings, 50 years ago. Jeremy and Liv discuss this years Stack Awards, which have just been launchec, and then fl…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London with interviews from our recent New York residency.The episode starts with an overview of new mags, including the Neat Review, Banana and Dazed. Plus the new book about RayGun magazine, from founder Marvin Scott Jarrett.We then switch to New York, where we hear from …

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London and at our New York MagMagMag popup. The episode starts in London; Jeremy and Liv take a look at a selection of recent arrivals including Violet Book, Apartamento, RAID and Subway. Plus we hear from photographer Jenny van Sommers about shooting the latest cover of Th…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss how magazines parody the format, with a look at the recent ninth issue of Buffalo Zine and its ten parody cover designs. We look back at Joseph Ernst’s wonderful Naked Woman Covered in Glitter, and Words and hear from Claire Milbraith about Editorial Magazine’s new mascot (itself a form of parody).There’s also …

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this eighth episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss longevity and magazines, asking how many issues it takes for a magazine to assert its existence and noting the trend for limited publishing programmes; Justinien Tribillon from Migrant Journal explains how t…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this seventh monthly episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss the paradox of printing a magazine about climate change and the wastage built into the long-standing system of magazine distribution. With contributions from Martha Dillon of It’s Freezing in LA and…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this sixth episode, Jeremy and Liv bid farewell to New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss, highlighting the ‘Cosby: The Women’ front cover and the weekly staple ‘Approval Matrix’.They go on to discuss the role of lists in magazines, take a peek a…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this episode Jeremy and Liv share their magazine highlights of 2018, and we hear from ten guests about their favourite magazine moments of the year: Steven Gregor (Gym Class), Steve Watson (Stack), Kirsten Algera (MacGuffin), Ian Birch (‘Uncovered'), …

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this episode: The Stack Awards, Buffalo Zine, The Guardian snacks, the magazines that influenced our love for print, Ripped & Torn, Tribune relaunched, Gal-Dem and Zeit International’s fifth anniversary issue.The magCulture Podcast is supported by Par…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.In this episode: front covers, new books about magazines, the latest issue of Eye on Design and 1940’s mag Lilliput. Jeremy meets editors Elisabeth Krohn (Sabat) and Valentina Egoavil Medina (Suspira) at the London Art Book Fair, and Liv contrasts covera…

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall host the first of a new series of podcasts celebrating the culture of magazines. In this episode: Holiday reading, The Guardian x gal-dem, a Dance Magazine, Print! Tearing It Up, The Stack Awards 2018, Nest magazine.The magCulture Podcast is supported by Park Communications – thank you!Produced by John Webb/The London …

Episode 2 of the magCulture podcast features Rob Orchard (Delayed Gratification)with Jeremy Leslie in London and Ricarda Messner (Flaneur) in Berlin with Madeleine Morley. We hear about their new issues and take a look together at Makeshift magazine.By magCulture

Episode 1 of the magCulture podcast features Danielle Pender(Riposte)with Jeremy Leslie in London and Kai von Rabenau (mono.kultur)in Berlin with Madeleine Morley. As well as news of their two magazines, the four discuss issue 16 of Apartamento.By magCulture

We hear two songs - they are different versions of the same song. Pointing out their differences is easy - but what is it that makes them the same? The meme is the relationship between two content items that make them 'the same', whether that is the same song, the same picture, the same act or even sub-items within any content like the same melody,…

What do we mean when we talk about meme mediation? To what phenomenon, exactly, do we refer? This episode is a more in-depth look at how the concept of memes works with media. Thanks to Falk’s feedback on the last episode, this one gets straight to business and discusses how the dichotomy of semantics versus structure relates to the dichotomy of me…

Welcome to Understanding Media: The Extensions of Memes. Thanks for visiting! Here we will be discussing, in short, a combining of the works of Marshall McLuhan and Richard Dawkins (to name only the progenitors of the two crucial ideas here). We are seeking to establish a theory of media that accounts for the critiques of McLuhan and operates using…