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TWO GIANTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN CALL THE SHOTS TO GUEST EDIT WALLPAPER*
September 8, 2010
Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine, has collaborated with two avant-garde masters of stage and screen to guest edit the October issue. Iconic film director David Lynch and maverick stage director Robert Wilson have each edited their own section of the magazine and created their own covers, bringing peace, unity and amazing movie magic to the printed page.
Once again, Wallpaper* is pushing publishing boundaries by using rediscovered and more contemporary techniques to bring the issue's content to life. Thanks to a collaboration with creative communications agency Dentsu London, readers are able to animate Wilson's still images by using a striped sheet of acetate (provided in the issue) and a clever pre-cinema technique called ombro cinema.
On a more contemporary-tech level, QR codes that can be scanned by a smartphone take readers directly to a link where Wilson's films – of Isabella Rossellini, Brad Pitt, our sumo champion and the snowy owls – are playing, with accompanying soundtracks.
DAVID LYNCH
Chain-smoking, quiff-sporting, coffee-making, transcendental-meditating Hollywood maverick David Lynch is one of the genuine legends of 20th-century cinema. Over the last decade, his work has grown even more personal and effecting. In this issue, in words and symbols and a 16-page pull-out, he takes readers to a better place and a higher plane of consciousness.
ROBERT WILSON
'What we've tried to do with the magazine is to make it more dimensional,' says Robert Wilson, theatre director, designer, writer, choreographer and performer. And he's certainly done that. In this issue, Wilson – a one-man creative hub who has drawn William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Brad Pitt, to name but the barest few, close to his flame – animates a series of his startling video portraits. Watch Pitt pull his pistol (in his pants) and Willem Dafoe be very weird. Let your mind be boggled.
Wallpaper* will also launch its first iPad app to complement the issue, including unique content from both directors. Further details will be announced.
Tony Chambers, Wallpaper's editor-in-chief, says: “This year's guest editors completely changed people's ideas about what was possible in film and theatre. It's what we try to do in print, challenge and over-turn expectations. As ever, expect the unexpected.”
Wallpaper* publishing director Gord Ray adds: “Wallpaper* is on a roll, producing exceptional special issues that excite both our readers and advertisers. The guest edited issue is often our biggest-selling of the year, seeing us work with creative titans and deliver innovative publishing techniques. This guest edited issue will not disappoint.”
Director's Cut, the guest edited issue of Wallpaper*, goes on sale 9 September.
Special issues from Wallpaper* in 2010 include Born in Brazil, which the team produced from a temporary HQ in Rio and São Paulo; and Handmade, printed on seven different paper stocks, with 21,000 unique covers and every object featured commissioned by the magazine.
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Notes to editors
About Wallpaper*
Truly international, consistently intelligent and hugely influential, Wallpaper* is the world's most important design and style magazine.
It has attracted the most sophisticated global audience by constantly pushing into new creative territories and ensuring its coverage of everything from architecture to motoring, fashion to travel, and interiors to jewellery remains unrivalled. Wallpaper* has readers in 93 countries and has enjoyed unparalleled success in reaching the design elite right across the globe. To Wallpaper*, the world is one seamless marketplace, where consumers flit from one destination to the next, easily cross physical borders and cultural divides, and flirt with a variety of different brands, both established and undiscovered. With 12 themed issues a year, and a limited-edition cover by a different artist or designer each month, Wallpaper* has evolved from style bible to internationally recognised brand.
Innovation & Brand Building Initiative – Wallpaper* Made in China issue
British Society of Magazine Editors Awards 2009
Best New Editor of the Year – Tony Chambers
British Society of Magazine Editors Awards 2008
Best Designed Magazine of the Year – Wallpaper*
'Wallpaper* continues to innovate with page after page of just stunning design. The most restrained, considered magazine in this category. A triumph.'
The judges, Press Gazette Magazine Design and Journalism Awards 2008
For more information contact:
Victoria Higham, IPC Media senior press officer, +44 (0)20 3148 5401 or email Victoria_higham@ipcmedia.com
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