Features | Gaysi Zine & White Print | Paper Planes

THE GAYSI ZINE

At Paper Planes, our love for indie magazines intensifies at an alarming rate with every new indie title we get introduced to. And more so, when we get to know the fascinating and inspiring stories about how these magazines are put together. So today, we walk backstage with the Gaysi Zine.

The Gaysi Zine comes from the well-known Gaysi Family, an eclectic group that’s been relentlessly working towards creating meaningful conversations within and about the queer community in South Asia through various platforms. The Gaysi Zine is an integral part of the group. Armed with its latest graphic anthology edition, which happens to be its fourth, The Gaysi Zine has been consistently successful in blending some very fine content with stunning and inventive design.

Well, how do they do it? 

Read more: http://www.joinpaperplanes.com/blog-detail/behind-scenes-gaysi-zine/

WHITE PRINT

White Print, a Braille lifestyle magazine in India, has only one full time employee – Upasana Makati–who also happens to be its owner, publisher and editor. In the last two years of its being, White Print has had a lot of content contributions from freelancers and now has a freshly struck agreement with Delhi Press’ The Caravan magazine, well-known for its long form journalism. However, there have been times when Upasana has had to write the whole issue herself. On a muggy September morning, we catch up with Upasana over coffee to get a lowdown on the process of putting together an indie magazine, especially a magazine that has had no specific reference point, being the first of its kind in India.

Read more: http://www.joinpaperplanes.com/blog-detail/behind-scenes-white-print/

Feature | Unique Content Distribution Models in India | PrintWeek India

Features | Indie Magazines | Paper Planes

Paper Planes is a fabulous indie magazines subscription venture in India called, thanks to which we now have access to so many interesting indie publications from around the world. And it is one of the most exciting projects I am working on right now. 

Here are some of the magazines that I have blogged about so far!

frankie

[wherever]

032c

Lucky Peach

mono.kultur

Lagom

Hot Rum Cow

ALL-IN

Cherry Bombe

Smith Journal

Apartamento

Interview: Jeremy Leslie, founder, magCulture

Jeremy Leslie, one of the judges of the first edition of Kyoorius Awards, is the founder of magCulture. He has been addicted to the magazine design space since he first produced a music fanzine in 1977. His most recent book The Modern Magazine was published by Laurence King Publishing in September 2013.

We had the pleasure of meeting Leslie again during the AGI Open conference, held at Barbican Centre in London on 26th and 27th September 2013. This time, however, he took time out especially for us to have an in-depth chat. We spoke to him about how print is far from being dead, about iPad apps, Conde Nast, Monocle, in-flight magazines, Richard Turley and about how he has managed to stick to the magazine space for so long. Edited excerpts.

Motherland magazine

The issue based on ‘Ghost Stories’ takes you through myriad interpretations that the theme can have including stories about paranormal investigators, rising phenomenon of ghostwriters, complex technological ghost in mobile phones and a widespread scam in Uttar Pradesh cheating people out of their lives.

Produced by the creative powerhouse of Wieden+Kennedy (W+K Publishing), the most striking thing about Motherland magazine is clearly its themes for each issue and their unique treatment through various angles. Motherland positions itself as a chronicler of trends, issues and ideas that shape the contemporary Indian culture.

Read the whole story here.

Inside Creative Review's office: One of the world’s most well-known and respected magazines about creativity

Nestled in a pulsating and posh neighborhood of London, Creative Review’s (CR) office is undergoing some renovation when we visit them on a crisp winter morning in September last year. One of the world’s most well-known and respected magazines about creativity, CR shares its huge office space with a few other magazines of its parent company, Centaur Media PLC which is spread over four floors in the same building with more than 600 employees.

We ask Patrick Burgoyne, editor of Creative Review since 1999, to crack the code that leads to the consistently  brilliant content that CR has been churning out over the years. He starts off by describing a regular day at his office. That actually depends on where we are in the production cycle of the magazine, he says. “When I had first started here, we just had a monthly magazine and thus there was a very distinct rhythm to the month. We would start the first week with various ideas coming together and commissioning things. Then the work would gradually grow as we were closer to the printing time. But these days we do so much stuff online, so we are constantly pushing things.” Read the whole story here. 

Neshan Magazine (Graphic Design Magazine from Iran)

In the last few years, being distinctly original (based on one’s culture and roots) is gradually being corroded by a wide variety of influences. Graphic design is often being blamed for getting homogenized as we move forward. Based in Iran, quarterly Neshan Magazine is a huge step in seeking that balance between sticking to one’s roots and a contemporary vision of design. Click here to read more.