I have heard of Uppercase before and all i knew about it was that it was a magazine with amazing imagery. Having found their blog and flickr stream yesterday (and being distracted for hours!) i realised it is so much more. In the "About the magazine" section they have this to say....
"We're inquisitive: learning from other artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians, whether they're upstarts or icons, famous or shy, verbal or visual.
We're inspired: enchanted by great ideas and strange inventions; by colour and pattern; things fancy and frugal; the charm of vintage in a modern life; the ridiculous and the sublime.
We're adventurous: traveling to destinations both real and imagined, peeking into creative spaces and discovering magnificent people and memorable places.
We're eclectic: curating souvenirs, collecting treasures and celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday.
We're playful: delighting in visual amusements, intelligent distraction, entertaining wordplay and sweet indulgences.
We're UPPERCASE: a magazine for the creative and curious!" - borrowed from their "about" section here.
This makes me want to buy the magazine and a subscription to be a part of this magazine and what they believe! Having looked through the Uppercase flickr stream and after reading page after page of their blog, i came across a great set of images for the actual magazine imagery and spreads here. This set of images has behind the scenes photos of layouts alongside inspirational imagery and it IS thoroughly inspiring! I could (and probably will) spend hours looking through these photos and the rest of the flickr stream, when i need a quick burst of inspiration to get me motivated to create my own work. They also have a shop here on their website that houses a great selection of paper products, books and you can also buy and subscribe to the magazine.
The magazine comprises of Janine Vangool - publisher, editor, designer and Deidre Martin - editor-at-large, audiovisual department editor. I think they do an amazing job on the magazine (I will be subscribing as a Christmas present for myself and you should too!) and the journal they run, plus they take amazing photographs and have recently published a book titled
"The Suitcase Series Volume 1:Camilla Engman" and the publishing section of the Uppercase website explains it in such a great way -
"The Suitcase Series presents in glorious detail the lives of select artists and designers. The books are image-based, full of artwork, sketchbook pages, beautiful photographs and artifacts from where the artists live and work. Interviews with the artist are included in both their native language and English. The books’ size will be small and intimate, like a diary/sketchbook and each book in the series would have a special treasure added: perhaps a small limited-edition art print, a vellum envelope filled with foreign paper scraps for collage, fabric swatches, etc. The book becomes a precious souvenir of a creative journey shared between the reader and the artist." - borrowed from here. (the first two images are of this book)
I will leave you with some great images (that can and should ! be clicked, which will take you to the originals on their flickr stream here)
love it!
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