Lodown Magazine

Lodown Magazine is an independent magazine for popular culture and art of movement. The magazine is in landscape mode and developed for each issue a completely new design, so that each issue is individually tailored to content and time.

Publication and Edition

Lodown Magazine is published five times a year and is produced with a circulation of 40,000. The English language magazine is considered collectible and will be published in Berlin and distributed worldwide.

History

In 1995, Thomas Marecki alias Marok the Lodown Magazine and developed it into an influential visual part of the international board, street and graffiti scene. Today, it deals more with contemporary art, music, film, fashion, lifestyle, and literature. Up to issue # 13 ( September 1998), the magazine had a stapled and then changed because of the increasing amount of content to an adhesive bond. In March 2004, with issue No. 40, the page format changed slightly from the original 220x280mm 233x265mm to. Since it is used as a design element and as today's characteristic, several types of paper within one issue. Since 2006, guest designers were required for the design of an edition of the magazine again and again. Exclusive contributions were, among others, created by Kaws, Futura 2000, Eric Haze, Matt Irving, Mirko Borsche, Don Pendleton, Åbäke, Manuel citizens or Marc Brandenburg. Since 2008 there is also an annual monothematic special issue dedicated exclusively to contemporary art.

Awards

Lodown Magazine was nominated several times and won the Lead Award.

  • Lead Award 2011 MAGAZINES: Illustration Post of the Year, 1st Place: "Value" special edition with works of 29 illustrators and artists, " Lodown Artspecial " No. 02
  • Nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2008
  • Lead Award 2007 PHOTOGRAPHY: Reportage Photography of the Year, 1st Place: Edmund Leveckis " Tales from the Underground ", " Lodown " # 51
  • Lead Award 2004 PHOTOGRAPHY: Still - life photography of the year, 3rd place: Aram Dikicyan "Every which way " from " Lodown " # 36
  • Lead Award 2003 ENTERTAINMENT: Online Magazine of the Year, 1st Place: " Lodown " lodown.com

Projects (selection)

Books

  • Lodown Graphic Engineering Pt.1. Die Gestalten Verlag 1999
  • Schizophrenic! Lodown graphic engineering Pt.2. Die Gestalten Verlag 2000

DVD / Videos

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