Proxart Magazine is primarily an e-zine online and for your Ipad. But, the crew there also makes it available as a print edition through MagCloud. It’s a smart move for a magazine starting out, none of the overhead and headaches of huge production runs, getting Proxart via MagCloud is simply print on demand and a high quality magazine is in the mailbox within days.

Sure, it comes with a price, but, I’m happy to support independent magazines run on pure passion. Proxart is a small, dedicated team of designers and contributors, doing this solely for the love of it. This latest issue of Proxart includes photographers, clothing designers, illustrators, and art nerds among others… here are some of the featured players.

Denim brand, Imogene & Willie

Ian Schneller.

Photographer, Sean Pecknold.

Alex Eben Meyer.

And, Poketo! What an honor.

We had a wonderful visit yesterday with the publisher-creative director-former architect Florencia Rodriguez of architectural quarterly, PLOT. She along with Cynthia and the photographer, Pablo, stopped by the Poketo studio for a recorded interview and to photograph the Poketo world. It always makes us a little nervous having a microphone in front of us… and the studio, well, because we do everything out of here, it’s always usually a mess. One way we like to flip the switch is take folks up to the Poketo rooftop. From up there, it’s miles and miles of LA skyline and gorgeous skies… ice, broken.

Published in Argentina, PLOT is an incredibly polished magazine about global architecture. What an honor it was for the crew to come all the way out to LA to interview us. Florencia is launching a new magazine, PUL, about art-design-culture. We’ll be one of the first features along with other awesome folks here in LA. Wait and see, we’ll post it when it’s out!

This eighth issue of Uppercase magazine is about the “surprising plays of scale… small things big and big things small… small is innovative, small is indie, small is familiar, and small is strange. We’re inspired-in a big way-by small things”- Janine Vangool-publisher, editor, designer.

Big or small, we are honored to be part of the pages of the first of 2011s Uppercase Magazine! It was even more special to be interviewed by our dear friend, Erin Loechner of Design For Mankind for this issue. Something different Erin did through our interview was pull from our experiences of starting and growing Poketo and then highlighted them as “pro tips” about running a creative business.

Like Poketo, Uppercase is a passion project – Janine does everything within the magazine (publisher, editor, and designer-wow!) and she relies on reader subscription to keep it going. A beautiful magazine, you’ll find interviews, studio visits, and beautiful imagery and articles. Uppercase also publishes books, most recently, “A Collection a Day”, a catalog of odds and ends by Lisa Congdon. Lisa is a long time Poketo collaborator and it’s awesome to see this book do so well.

Support and subscribe! More at Uppercasegallery.ca

Marc Atlan for Poketo

Flipping through past issues of Beautiful/Decay, Giant Robot, and Joel Speasmaker’s, The Drama and came across our ads. I shouldn’t say ads, as to us, they were more like full page art. Less about selling anything specific, more about a space for curatorial, showcasing art and the artist.

I am stoked to be part of these pages and to have had the opportunity to showcase some incredible art to thousand and thousands of readers of those highly regarded magazines. Here are a few pieces we’ve done over the years.

Greg LaMarche for Poketo

Chris Pew for Poketo

Heisuke Kitazawa for Poketo

Andrew Jeffery Wright for Poketo

Heisuke Kitazawa for Poketo, this one relating to the Poketo x PCP dinnerware.

Nathalie Roland for Poketo, this one for the collaboration with Postal Service.

While cleaning house, also found some copies of original press. I keep everything, sometimes it’s a burden finding space and organizing, but, I’m sure I’ll rediscover this past press again and not regret keeping these gems. It’s all a part of our history I’m keeping, someone at Poketo has got to do it.

This is from The Independent Newspaper (UK) when Poketo was listed in their top 100 Best Gifts in the World Holiday Guide. Wow, I hope we still live up to that. The other is from XFuns (Taiwan), they did a 6 or so page spread and interview with us. What’s rad is that Gary Baseman was the cover artist for this issue a few years back and we now have the honor to collaborate with Gary on a series of wallets that we just launched recently. Awesome how things align.

On a side note… Once lost, now found! My copies of Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve and Derek Kirk Kim’s “Same Difference and Other Stories”. We just saw Derek this weekend, he’s working on a couple of new books, making films, and living high from his Eisner award over the summer. Remember the wallets Derek did for Poketo?

The Drama… one of the raddest quarterly mags of the time.

Issue of KAWS and our friends, Kozyndan in GR

Issue of Jesse LeDoux in Beautiful/Decay