The Thicket magazine blog is announcing that all 25,00 copies of their first issue
have been delivered and I’m diging the page layout of the posted samples.
According to their site, the new Southern based magazine can be found locally, they are in Books-A-Million (Alabaster, Birmingham, Homewood, Hoover, Trussville, & Tuscaloosa), Barnes & Noble (Birmingham & Mountain Brook), Western, Bruno’s, Piggly Wiggly and Publix.
I ran across these tonight and snagged a couple for my screens. The quality is typographically top notch and the site (i love typography, which is always fun to check out) encourages you to make your own and send in. Share the love!
Across the pond, The Financial Times is running a periodic “check in” with current book covers. They’ve only picked 4 so far, but the insight from the news staff as been fairly good. They actually take the time to discuss some of the designers influences and frames of reference for each of the covers. I hope they keep it up.
What’s fun is that they are not just reviewing the covers of new releases. So you never know what might turn up. So far, the Molloy cover is my favorite. Very Alvin Lustig. And they say the spine has no title, author or publisher emblem, which would seem to make it one of the more useless jackets designed.
I just found out that tonight’s planned reception, celebrating The Birmingham Arts Journal‘s five years of publishing, has been moved to February 29th at Urban Standard (2320 2nd Ave. N). So we’ll all have to wait until then to meet the staff and some of the journal’s more recent contributors. The latest issue is in stores now and also available to view via pdf online, along with all the back issues. Which is pretty darn cool!
And here’s a little haiku for you to help welcome the weekend, which hopeful holds plenty of quiet time for you to read!
