Painting details by Chadwick Tyler

Here is a sneak peek at our ad for the Cole Haan Spring 2011 campaign. They shot some of our staff as part of their on-going ‘Inspired Lives’ campaign. We are very happy to be included in this diverse group of really rad people including Bureau V, Bamboo Bike Studio, Theophilus London, Kate Neckel, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Flowergirl, Bowne & Co., Nicola Vassel, Johnny Knapp, Magda Wosinka, Moses Berkson and Harley Viera-Newton. The campaign runs nationwide next month in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, T Style and InStyle.

The Future of the City: this is the motto of the carmaker, Smart, and the six New York City magazines who have joined forces to design “great things” – in the literal sense of the word. Take a look behind the scenes and hear what the artists themselves have to say about the project. The murals will be on display for another month, including the Dossier mural designed by Josh Slater which can be seen on Spring between Lafayette and Crosby.

During the hustle and bustle of fashion week, Homecoming was an amazing five day pop-up event that offered the creative community of downtown New York a place to call home. Programming was curated by Dossier, with a portrait studio by Dan Martensen and a space designd by Peter Klein. Sponsorship was thanks to Vans with support from Altec Lansing, Incase, Stella Artois and Arizona Rescue Water. A special thanks to Tacombi Taqueria and NY Adorned. PR by Evolutionary Media Group. Made with love by ThreeNYC.

On Thursday, Dossier played in the COACD soccer tournament at South Street Seaport with a lineup that included teams from Bloomingdales, Oak, Milk Studios, Lil Frankies, ThreeNYC, Red Bucket Films and East Village Radio and a live performance by Jailbait. We lost to East Village Radio who went on to the finals and was beat by good old Bloomies. The whole gig was sponsored by PumaCity which has more fun events going on this month related to soccer, drinking and dancing in the middle of the day. Thanks to our team for coming out. Clockwise from top left- Micah Reed, Rob Schumann, Andrew Blazer, Erin Dixon, Alec Friedman and Tim Yu. (Not shown: Ithai Schori. ) For a video of the days action and additional images of the festivities click “Read More”.

Issue No. 5 of Dossier is being printed as you read this. It includes, as you can see above, a cover shoot of Daria Werbowy, shot at home by Cass Bird, interviews with Gaspar Noe, Anne Collier, Miss J. Alexander and Lydia Peelle, photos and interviews of Devendra Benhart and Annie Clark of St. Vincent, photo portfolios by Joel Meyerowitz and Sam Falls, a complete novella by R.D. Skillings, photography by David Armstrong and Richard Kern, and a lot more. You can pre-order your copy here, or wait for the issue to hit newsstands in just a few weeks. Click “Read More” for a preview of some layouts from the upcoming issue.

portfolio by Sam Falls

photography by Dan Martensen, styling by Kate Lanphear

photography by David Armstrong, styling by Akari Endo-Gaut

portfolio by Anne Collier

photography by Julia Hetta, styling by Hannes Hetta

Zach Shields as Philip Marlowe, photography by Skye Parrott, styling by Valentine Fillol-Cordier

Maybe we can help these two kids find love. They have that on Craigslist now, right?

“Until now, every magazine was a bunch of pages stapled together. It arrived in your mailbox folded, mutilated spindled — usually with more ads than editorial. Last year, a group of us enjoying the sun, skiing and unique cultural climate of Aspen Colorado, asked ourselves, ‘Why?’

Why, for example, couldn’t a magazine come in a box? Why shouldn’t an article exploring jazz be accompanied by an LP record illustrating in sound our words in print? Why couldn’t each article be a separate booklet, in the shape, color and paper most appropriate to the subject?

We kept asking why for months. Aspen magazine is the answer.” – August 1966 advertisement for Aspen

Since I first stumbled upon some excerpts from Aspen my freshman year in college, I have been enthusiastically telling anyone who will listen that the magazine stands, perhaps alongside Wyndham Lewis’ and Ezra Pound’s Vorticist journal BLAST from the 1910s, as easily the best (and, for that matter, although here the hyperbole is somewhat less warranted, most influential) publication of the 20th century.  Regardless of its short run and truncated distribution – it only spanned ten ‘issues’ over six years – its influence on contemporary media radiates through to even the most somnambulant of readers, as magazines such as Visionaire (and, perhaps, even our own Dossier) have picked up on Aspen‘s discursive folding-over of various, often incongruent, forms of media; and, crucially, they have appropriated its sort of lofty self-awareness of, among other things, the very implications of publishing: of calling this disseminated assemblage of various works a ‘magazine.’

But you really don’t need me to convince you of anything. The list of  contributors that founding editor Phyllis Johnson brought together for Aspen‘s short run is truly astounding, and should, in a sort of silent, coercive demonstration, do all of the convincing itself.  Among them: Andy Warhol, John Cale, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, William Burroughs, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Glass, Richard Serra, Jasper Johns, Ken Jacobs, J.G. Ballard, John Cage, Carolee Schneemann, Morton Feldman, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Alain Robbe-Grillet Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Richter, John Lennon, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, La Monte Young.

Like its contemporary cousin Visionaire, Aspen has had the good fortune of being regarded as a ‘collector’s item’; and, unfortunately, for most that means that getting a copy of a fully-intact issue is something of a monetary issue.  Thankfully, UbuWeb has been kind enough to post every issue, in its entirety, on its site, in a very clean, navigable layout.  Click on the image above (of the cover of the third issue, designed by Andy Warhol) to navigate to that page.

On Friday night Dossier celebrated the release of our fourth issue with a party at the Tribeca Grand with the Misshapes. These images were taken by  by Hatnim Lee. For many more click “Read More” or go to Guest of a Guest… or Metromix.