SLICE up your life!

Did some contributing editor work for this new magalog called SLICE and finally it's coming out after long months of waiting!

Here's one of the two covers of the magazine featuring curated things and, of course, my hand! hahaha

This spread features some interesting stuff from LRI Makati...

Slice covers interior design and lifestyle...

it also features interesting people...

it also has fashion fashion component. So, if you dig unconventional magazine, you might want to check out SLICE once it's out. The best thing about this mag is it's for FREE!! yes! Visit their Facebook on where/how to get a copy :)

Here are some behind-the-scenes pix i snapped during shoots :p

Bachi tryin out the model's wig. hehe I actually asked her to wear em and i think she was pissed of me afterwards :p

Mowdel couple Max and Marx

 Lev did a styling for one of the fashion eds. Lovin his Hindi tattoo

 the male models

 and the girls :p

The kitchen set was pretty awesome. So, lev and I pretended that we're in a cooking show. Hahaha! there...hopya get a copy of SLICE mag!

Rags Gone Too Soon Part 1: The Face and Sleazenation

There are thousands of magazine titles in the entire world. When I googled the question "How many magazines do we have in the whole world?", Yahoo Answers bluntly replied 'too many'. Well, in the Philippines alone, we have more than 200 local circulating publications battling for readership- some titles survive and a lot them loses war.

That short intro isnt actually related to this post. Hahaha I dunno. been thinking of a good lead in but it seems that my brain and thoughts are out of sync.

Over the past few months, I've been researching for some inspirations for a "project" im working on. I've read insightful articles about youth culture publications and subculture movements and stumbled upon these amazing magazines. Magazines that didnt care about the trend because they set it or moved against it. These are the magazines I would really want to read/own/work for. But unfortunately, these titles are already folded. :( So, i discovered four amazing rags to share with you and hopefully it'll inspire you too. I already heard about these titles before but didnt really put much attention until now. This is a two-part post but not really text driven but visuals overload. I dont wanna bore people with all my blabber, you know. ;) 

Part 1. These two magazines inspire me with their provocative take on music, style and pop culture.

The Face...that changed the magazine industry

Dubbed as “the world’s best-dressed magazine”, The Face was the taste-maker from 1980s til early 2000. It was the brainchild of NME editor Nick Logan who also founded the teen pop magazine Smash Hits (which I had several copies when I was in grade school) and Arena.

Logan employed Neville Brody as the art director and typographer. And since then, 'the face' of the British magazine industry changed. The Face covered music, fashion, pop culture and a little bit of politics.

There's nothing like it when The Face first came out in 1980. It's so original that it's the first published magazine in the UK that used colored pages. 'The Face advocated that music didn't matter unless everyone looked good.' It's also the magazine that launched the careers of Kate Moss and one of my fave photographers Juergen Teller.

and I found some insides of the magazine which made me drool a deluge...

The Face's last issue was on May 2004 with Kelis and Andre 3000.

It folded in 2004 due to decline of sales and advertising revenue. ;(

SLEAZENATION: Anti-fashion of Modern Subculture

Sleazenation started as a free zine covering club youth culture and lifestyle in London. Founded by Steve Beale in 1996, Sleazenation was the bible of cool Britannia. It was then in 1998 that the magazine circulated on a wider market.

What I like about Sleazenation, although i havent read any issue, is that it didnt use celebrity or "it" people for it to sell. Instead, it perfected its designs, production values, the contents to cover and their relevance to their target readers and used it as their selling point. "If anything, we are an anti-style magazine, but you have to know how to be stylish to be unstylish," (PAKPAKAPKA) said Steve Beale in an interview.

Steve Beale left Sleazenation for The Face in 1999 and the magazine continued til 2003 showcasing the works of Stephen Male (one of i-D's art directors, photographers Ewen Spencer and Jonathan de Villiers, and Scott King who directed Sleazenation as "an ideal for living through fashion, art, music and design." Very inspiring... 

So that's the Part 1! Part 2, i will feature another two magazines that shook the graphic design scenes...

*photos via google, MagCulture and here

RAG HAG: Own, Flaunt, Theme, Adbusters, Clear and Ranked magazines

There's always a surprise every time I visit Booksale and last Monday was not an exception. I wasnt able to find the regular titles I look for but I was happy with what I bought.  I got 6 amazing magazine titles in different genres.

The first mag that I got was OWN. It features men's products and fashion in a catalog-type presentation.

 

I love how they curate things..

very minimal

They often do product-as-the-model type of editorial which I really love...

and the styling is not bad either...

The next magazine is ADBUSTERS

Adbusters is an activist magazine that deals with consumerism and how it affects our lives. 

They use a matte book paper which gives that raw feel and I like it so much...

the pages are very graphic and arty...

and this is an ad-free magazine but they usually do spoofs of ad campaigns :)

I also got FLAUNT magazine. On the cover is the Mexican actor Gael Garcia-Bernal.

I've been searching for a copy of this magazine and I got lucky this time. Flaunt is an American magazine which features fashion and culture.

Its layout is neat and clutter free...

I love that they use quirky and iconic images...

They also did a feature on the modern day hippies and their lifestyle...

Their fashion editorial are unconventional. They usually do artsy imagery rather than the conventional glossy fashion eds...

the cover story...

I also got this urban hipster magazine called THEME that features contemporary creative culture.

 The layout of this magazine is hodgepodge though it's curated in a neat way...

I love how they present the table of contents...

the rest of the pages are bursting with arty layout and pop images that make the magazine youthful.

(wow this post is the longest!) Then there's CLEAR magazine.

I love this one. Clear's cover page is sort of like a plastic thing which I thought was clever...

Clear follows the two-column grid system...

This magazine features fashion, art, luxury and design.It kind of reminds me of Surface and Wallpaper* on how they segment and style their images...

This particular issue sort of like an art issue and I love the arty stuff they have...

What I love about Clear is the fashion editorials. It's very clean. The styling is minimalist and neat.

And the rest of the editorial are just amazing...

And the most favorite of all the magazine finds is RANKED. 

Ranked is not really a magazine magazine. It's a collectors item that features some of the works of the fashion photographer John Rankin Waddell or popularly known as Rankin. He's also one of the founding fathers of Dazed & Confused, Rank, AnOther and AnOther Man. I love how RANKED was designed...

from the images...

and the use of typography and layout...

Rankin is known for his erotic and sensual photography...

and also for his unconventional and iconic way of presenting portraits of people...

He also shot some of the prominent people in music, fashion, showbiz, politics, etc...

There you go! I hope you liked the magazines as I liked them. What's your favorite mag from the list?