Last year Mag Nation started doing a semi-regular spot on their blog where they’d ask people in mag-land to nominate their five favourite magazines. First up was Kate Bezar, Dumbo feather’s founder and editor with her picks and lately, Becky Smith, the founder of UK mags, Lula and Twin, shared her faves (one of which was Dumbo feather, even if just for our name!).

It got us wondering what your favourite magazines are?? Leave us a comment below with your top five, excluding Dumbo feather (we’ll assume that’s a given ;). Please give web addresses if they’re a bit obscure so others can find them …

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Crediting artists for their work is ever-so-important to us, but we’ve just found out that in the current issue of Dumbo feather, we were given some wrong info. We published the three great images (above) of the Renew Newcastle project in Marcus Westbury’s section and credited them to Marni Jackson, when in fact it appears they’re actually the work of photographer Carli Hyland. Sorry Carli! Check out Carli’s website for more stunning images and illustrations.

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Images from ‘Floating World:Ukiyo-E’ by John Warwicker

We’re a bit slow off the mark here, but if you’ve got time before the 19th Dec and you’re in Melbourne, this exhibition of writing, drawing and photography by John Warwicker (Issue Ten) at The Narrows Gallery is a must see. The exhibition is timed to celebrate the launch of John’s book, ‘Floating World:Ukiyo-E’, which has been seven (!!) years in the making! More spreads from inside the book here.

John Warwicker : Issue Ten : Introduction

It might seem ridiculous for someone widely regarded as one of the world’s best designers to admit, “I don’t know what design is at all”, but John Warwicker understands that embracing the ‘not knowing’ can be your greatest strength. Whether you’re familiar with the work of Tomato (of which John was a founding member in 1991) or not, you’ll no doubt appreciate taking a walk inside his mind. There’s something deeply reassuring in hearing that even someone of John’s calibre, and who has the world’s most design-savvy corporations as clients, is as unsure of his abilities as the rest of us. He too struggles with the difficulties inherent in balancing the demands of a commercial career with nurturing one’s own creativity. John was creative director of Da Gama (1981-1984), head of Art and Video at A&M Records (1984-1987), creative director of Vivid I.D. (1987-1991) and was the first foreigner to be admitted into the Japanese Type Directors’ Club. He directs short films and commercials, designs album covers, treats type like oil on canvas, is about to have his first monograph published, and, after spending most of his career in London, has recently moved to Melbourne… for love… Df

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Photographs by Dan Wilton

If Issue 21’s still fresh in your minds you might remember Kali Arulpragasam talking about her next Superfertile jewellery collection which she described as, “another quite ironic collection about current affairs; the economy and the recession. It’s about the truth, a sentence like ‘There’s 5o million people without healthcare in America’, but glamourised with stones so it looks like it’s overflowing with diamonds and things. It’s about welfare, and the economy, and unemployment, and repossession of houses, and how the value of houses is lower than the actual mortgage is, and how much the war’s cost; all that stuff.”

In an email to us this morning Kali elaborates; “It’s pretty tough to pull off Numbers and Statistics in the form of Pie charts and Bar charts in hand paved stones, without being boring … or nuts! It’s something that demands us to look at jewellery in a new light and opens up possibilities of what we can say with them. Maybe it’s the beginning of ‘Glitzy truth’ …”

The collection, called CRA$H, was launched at Paris Fashion Week, but doesn’t seem to be up on the Superfertile website yet, so here are a few more pics … They’re pretty fabulous. Keep reading →

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BUY A SUBSCRIPTION & GET $10 OFF THE NEXT ONE!

For the rest of November only we’ve got an extra special deal going … When you purchase a subscription you’ll be emailed instructions for how to get $10 off your next (and any subsequent) subscription purchases.

That brings a subscription down to only $35 -!

In December, we’re going to continue the offer, but the discount will be $5, so best to get in quick.

If you’d like to know more about how to give gift subscriptions this Christmas read on.

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So you’re wanting to give someone a subscription to Dumbo feather for Christmas, but aren’t sure how it all works? Here’s the drill.

1. Visit our online Shop, go to the Subscriptions section and decide whether or not you want to give them a 12 or 24 month sub (scroll down the page for more options).
2. Select the Subscriber Location from the drop-down menu. Make sure this is the location of the person who’ll be receiving the subscription, not yours.
3. Select when you would like the subscription to commence from the next drop-down menu. If you choose ‘Immediately’ we will send a copy of Issue 22 asap. If you choose ‘15 December 2009′ we will send a copy of Issue 22 on 15 December so that it should* arrive just prior to Christmas Day.
4. Go to checkout, put both your and the lucky recipient’s address details into the form and … Bob’s your uncle.
5. Please note: your Paypal receipt will indicate that the mag is being delivered to your address – this is not the case. We will override your address with the address you entered for the gift recipient.

With every gift recipient’s first copy of Dumbo feather we enclose a letter which begins, “Dear so-&-so, such-&-such has kindly gifted you a 12/24 month subscription to Dumbo feather …” so they will know who it’s from! We will also put a sticker on the back of the envelope saying ‘Not to be opened until 25 December’.

* Note: we will send the magazine out on this date, but can’t take any responsibility for whether or not they actually arrive prior to Christmas … that is in the capable hands of Australia Post.

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