Originally published April 20th 2010 at cityofsound.com. First part of a two-parter on newspapers and cities. The second part concerns San Francisco Panorama, and further small, bespoke newspapers.
A year or so ago my piece ‘The Street As Platform’ was included in Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, a smart one-off publication by Russell Davies and Ben Terrett.
The paper turned out to be a prototype of the fantastic Newspaper Club, one of the more interesting ventures to have emerged from ‘the papernet’. Their model rather brilliantly combines a craft-led agenda — a kind of ‘slow’ approach informed by bespoke design as well as template-driven production — as well as a potentially scalable infrastructure for localised printing that piggy-backs on the installed base of the newspaper industry.
