Flipboard

We take the new "social magazine" app for a spin

Launched today, Flipboard aggregates content posted by friends on Facebook and Twitter. Instead of reading feeds and clicking on links, the well-funded app transforms the links into a magazine-style format for iPad reading. With the news sweeping the Internet, Flipboard’s server has been up and down all day, but we took it for a precursory spin to see its immediate capabilities—which includes a valuable RSS …

Brownbook 22

A North Africa issue from the newly-redesigned mag covering contemporary Middle Eastern culture

Dubai-based Brownbook Magazine celebrates the 22nd issue of their “urban guide to the Middle East” with a focus on North Africa—all done up in their recently-debuted redesign. The fresh look includes a new Arabic-inspired font that blends seamlessly with text (primarily in English) for a magazine with a style as worldly as the stories it features. At three years in, the bimonthly publication’s content covers …

The Pop Manifesto No. 7

Aussie webzine founders discuss bi-hemisphere collaboration, their DIY publishing ethos and site-crashing mixtapes

In its most recent incarnation, The Pop Manifesto hovers between its origins as a ‘zine and tastemaking publication that traces the leading edge of graphic design. Focusing on Japan, the latest issue includes both a round up of under-the-radar creative Tokyoites and Diet Butcher Slim Skin, the Kanye-approved menswear designer. Its Australian founders, editor Ilirjana Alushaj and art director Karl Maier, started the publication five …