Neat reads

Got an interesting email from JC at Hong Kong Design Center (which also reminded me that Business of Design Week conference is landing in here from 29 November to 1 December. Cool speakers include: Karim Rashid, Jimmy Choo, and Alan Yau among others). He forwarded a request for input from his friend AL in Spain who is working on a book called We Love Magazines for Colophon 2007, in international magazine symposium. For the book, they're compiling a list of "magazines that have sadly passed on but that we really miss -- from The Face to Nova". Oddly, I couldn't think of any. In particular, they need input on non-English magazine (funny, eat just came to mind, so I googled it and indeed it has folded!). Let me know if you can think of any and I'll forward them on to AL.

As I was going through AL's site, I came across another book for which he was both an editor and writer, le cool changed my life: a weird and wonderful guide to barcelona. I flipped through the online sample pages and loved it, so ordered my copy. I'm a bit of a magazine and travel guide junkie, I suppose. le cool also publishes weekly events listings for Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Istanbul.

And since I'm on a design tangent today, congratulations to AW's company, Kitchen, for bagging a Hong Kong 4As Interactive & Direct Award! Kitchen and Mindshare's MOOV Online Campaign (client: PCCW-now.com.hk) was the Best Interactive Campaign 2006!