Jeremy Leslie Livres

Once you pick me up, you won't want to put me down . . . I'm an encyclopedia, but not as you know it. Big books with facts are boring - I'm not. I'm more like a computer game than a book, crammed with funky pages and cartoons. Forget A-Z, just follow my lead and you'll be amazed where you end up! Was Beethoven a punk? Why is 10 to the power of 100 called a googol? How are smelly feet connected to nuclear weapons?I've got it all covered. Read me in bed, read me on the bus, or even in the loo! Just pick me up - go on. I'm exciting, I'm addictive - I'm unputdownable! Curious? Try me!

magCulture explores the very latest trends and creative design styles in contemporary magazines from around the world. Its scope ranges from mass marketed to experimental titles and includes 'Dazed & Confused' (UK), 'Eat' (Japan), 'Sony Style' (US) and 'Domus' (Italy). After Jeremy Leslie’s introductory overview of the state of magazines, five illustrated essays follow all written by prominent figures in the field, focusing on consumer magazines, supplements, independent ‘microzines’ and webzines. The main section is made up of examples of over 100 innovative international magazines, starting with front covers, moving through contents pages and navigation to the features pages. Short interviews, essays and comment pieces focus on key themes such as logo design, Japanese magazines, French fashion magazines and branding.

The 365typo annual book, published in collaboration with Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), features 365 stories by the best writers in the field of typography, visual communication, and type and graphic design from all over the world, from Tokyo to San Francisco (via Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin, Istanbul, The Hague, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York, Paris, Prague, Reading and Tehran). 365typo features key issues, events, happenings, behind-the-scenes storytelling and themes. The book presents not only crucial stories and facts, but also analyses and predictions of future developments in the industry, and helps readers find their way through the labyrinth of current events, trends and ideas. The publisher, editors and contributors all share the idea that 365typo is a service to the industry and strive to make it an important source for future research: A time capsule, an archive that documents the era.

We Love Magazines explores magazines and magazine culture with groundbreaking visuals and editorial contributions from around the world. The book features in-depth analysis of various aspects of magazine creation while, as the title reflects, celebrating with genuine pleasure a medium that continues to entertain, inform and surprise. We Love Magazines also contains the most comprehensive directory ever compiled of 1,100 international pop culture magazines and the shops in which to buy them. In addition, readers are introduced to ten pioneering, independent magazines that have created their own chapters for the book.