magCulture Live New York 2023

This annual event showcases the best creative editorial projects, with speakers from across the magazine spectrum sharing their work.

magCulture Live features a series of talks from the people behind today’s most innovative magazines. All will provide their own unique insight into the role of the magazine in contemporary culture, this year focusing on the variety of formats available to the magazine maker—emphasising differences in scale, shape and periodicity.

Our first speakers are now confirmed, with more to be added in the coming weeks. We look forward to welcoming you to this year’s magCulture Live.

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Debra is a designer and art director who has worked for many of New York’s major titles including Rolling Stone and Martha Stewart Kids. She is currently design director of The New York Times for Kids, and she will sharing the origins and success of this brilliantly illustrated and designed broadsheet newspaper for children.

British media company Courier launched covers modern business across print, email and social. Courier magazine has just marked its 50th issue with its biggest refresh since launch. The magazine has stayed true to its founding ideas and beliefs—focusing on people living and working on their own terms. Only now it has reimagined how it represents success in the modern economy across art and design, food and drink, entrepreneurship and fashion, with an evolution in its photography and a bespoke approach to editorial and design, with sticker sheets, pull-out posters, interactive illustrations, longform features and more.

Editor John Sunyer and Photography director Anna Jay will talk about the process of reimagining a magazine from scratch.

Matt Willey and Dan Crowe have worked on numerous magazine projects together, including Zembla and Port. Their latest collaboration is the large format literary/art magazine Inque, an ambitious annual publication with a pre-planned end at issue ten. Packed with big-name contributors—writers, artists and photographers—it has already won multiple awards.

The pair will be talking about Inque’s origins and introducing for the first time the soon-to-be-released second issue.

More speakers to be confirmed

All speakers are confirmed but we reserve the right to change the line-up for reasons beyond our control. We’re unable to refund tickets once booked.

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For four days only we’ll be running our regular MagMagMag pop-up shop with our friends at Vitsoe. As well as showcasing a selection of our favourite magazines to buy, there will also be another series of free lunchtime talks at their space. Details to follow!

5—8 July 2023

Vitsoe, 17 W8th Street, NY 10011

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Visit New York for magCulture Live and stay at our our official partner hotel

Ace Hotel New York, 20 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001

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What is magCulture Live? Previously known as known as ModMag, the conference has been held annually in London since 2013, starting life as a celebration/launch of Jeremy Leslie’s book ‘The Modern Magazine’. We have now organised seven live London editions and three live New York editions— plus three Zoom editions during the Covid lockdown.

What is it about? The day presents the most innovative and interesting creative work in magazine publishing, with editors and art directors uniting to share their thoughts and ideas. We don't duck the big issues facing print publishing, but neither do we fall for the easy, negative narratives surrounding the industry. magCulture Live is a celebration and reminder of the power of magazine creativity —if you know the MagCulture Journal you’ll have a sense of the scope and focus of the event.

Is there a theme to the day? We’ll be celebrating the creativity of the magazine industry, bringing together the publishing community for a session of creative inspiration. Alongside this, the theme ‘Format’ will be drawing attention to the differences in size, scale and periodicity that ahelp every magazine to establich its own identity.

Who is magCulture Live for? The day is aimed at publishing professionals, design and journalism students and graduates, and anyone with a creative curiousity. The ability to develop an editorial voice is in everyone’s hands today via digital channels. Hear from leading editorial practitioners how they are handling this responsibility.

Who organises magCulture Live? magCulture Live is produced by magCulture, led by founder Jeremy Leslie and Danielle Mustarde. Read the magCulture Journal for a sense of what/who we are.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Wix Playground, 100 Gansevoort Street, New York, United States