E&A―The Glossy Zine
Design Studio Von Birken

“E&A, short for Editor & Art Director―The Glossy Zine is a bi-annual newsprint publication with content being centered around “Fashion, Pop & Art”. We just started out with the first issue and thought it was a good change from the work we had been doing until then at Studio Von Birken. We work as Art Directors for Fashion & Beauty, and were looking for something that was a bit less air-brushed and less commercial in a way…We wanted to make it a zine as opposed to a magazine, so it needed to be cheap. And we love newsprint! In regards to the name, The Glossy Zine: It was never meant to be ironic, we think it describes what it is quite straightforward; it’s glossy in terms of it’s content and /images and it’s a zine in regards to the way it’s done, no budget, no advertising, no four-color print. But we do like that it is a paradox. Plus, in times of extreme energy consumption & in a culture of waste it only made sense to us to try it on recycled paper, to see if that would work, too. We think it does.”

Nice to see that Studio Von Birken have ditched their old website, or rather addressed the problems of the old website, resulting in something far more navigable and easier on the eyes – some of you may remember that background of constantly rotating /images and the absence of any real kind of navigation. Hat tip to Dave for the memo :)