Beyond.
Tags:I should have known, all those years ago, by the amount of magazines I hoarded, that I would someday have a true love affair with design and words and merging it all together. That this combination would be my passion.
And maybe I did know. It was all just part of my personal evolution. And a part of me all along the line.
I can't resist a magazine. Sometimes I love them for the design : for the cool use of type, for the way they mesh images, for the white space, for the stuff layered all over, for the new way they make me look at things I have seen a million times before. And sometimes I love them for the content : for the information, for the insights, for the way they make me feel inside, for the way they use words, for the way the words reach me at just the right time.
Awhile back I was introduced to a new publication called Beyond. Their mission:to explore what it means to be truly human. All I had to do was read that and I wanted in - that is a damn good mission. That, and I was enchanted by their cool website. So I sent in my money, knowing it would be awhile before I saw my first issue because it is a no-ads ALL content magazine that was just getting started.
My first issue arrived the other day. It was worth the wait.
Content marrying design. Things that made me think. Books I now want to read. Design and art I was inspired by. The kind of magazine you lay down in bed to read and then almost have to get up becuase it lights a fire in you and makes it tough to go to sleep.
These people are doing something good.
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Sounds like a great magazine! (And I love the new banner!) That am routine layout is probably my favorite "Ali layout" ever!
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i, too, am a total magazine whore, ali. it must be in my dna as well because my oldest daughter is a magazine journalism major!
thanks for that link. i just subscribed.
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Ali, I have been readying your blog for a few weeks now and you are my new favorite! Your designs are so incredible and so is your spirit. You are a true inspiration. I also share your love of magazines. I got it from my mother. I can hardly get through a grocery store without buying at least one...I think it is becoming an expensive addiction. Can't wait to check out this new one you have recommended.
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Magazine junkie here. You've been to Periodicals Paradise on Hawthorne, right? If not, GO. It's crammed with used magazines for cheap prices.
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Cool. You always find thet neatest stuff.
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thank you Ali! I just subscribed! Looks awesome, and I can't wait to get my first issue in the mail!
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thanks for that link...checked out the website and they are SO right on. "we think medium and message are important." -wow, they won me over!
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Most days, I can't wait to get home from work to see which magazine came in the mail!
Thanks for the link to Beyond! It looks like a super magazine - one worth spending some quality time with.
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thank you for posting this. i love magazines. have become more selective over the years, but the love affair goes on. always thought i was a bit odd over my preoccupation, but seems a lot of us love them too. yes, fab design, content, ideas. bedtime reading. yum.
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Ali, darling!! Thank you for posting about this -- Karen (the editor) will be so pleased. You've got clout, and I know this will really help the subscription base. I just got my issue in the mail too, and am looking forward to digging in this weekend.
Carmen.
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Ali, thanks so much for mentioning us. I am wondering if your first issue (13) went to the wrong address. I'll send it out right away with a "sorry you didn't get 13" treat.
Peace to all of you this day.
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That magazine looks impressive - especially with no ads! How were the articles? Worth reading? Fill us in!
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Ali -- thanks again! Karen tells me she has 9 new subscribers already thanks to your post. You rock! :)
Carmen.
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I always have to read a magazine at least 4 times. Once for the intended message, another for the layout appeal, another for typesets/fonts, another for wow...cool use of color....etc. Takes me darn near FOREVER. LOL I'll have to check this one out! Thanks for the lead!
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Oh! All I wanted last night was a good magazine and a good 2 hours of peace in which to read it! I'll check the website. :)
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You know I am a magazine addict. This one sounds wonderful, and I know you have fabulous taste..Do you know if they sell it on the newstand. Sometimes getting subs up to Canada is a pain.
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so it's not enough that i already subscribe to the usual suspects...
CK, real simple, Country Home, Somerset, US(gotta get the hot gossip:)...
now you've got me looking at the super cool, not yet famous ones...
HOW
& now beyond
my wallet is crying but i have a smile on my face:)....
can the next one you recommend cost 50 cents please?:)
you are a great ambassador for cool new going to be famous things...
keep 'em coming...
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Totally cool mag Ali and if it'sgot Douglas Coupland in it - it's gotta be good :)
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Beyond is based in Canada, and happily sends to subscribers in both countries. :)
Carmen, eager supporter. :)
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I'm a total mag whore. It's part of the reason why I'm a journalism major. Hopefully, I'll be writing for one in a couple of years!
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