Because the recession is upon us, Time Style & Design are suspending their publication until the economy gets better.
Or in other words, they don’t want to look like the comical magazine text of the recession, or The Gossip Girl of Magazines, who only cover luxury themes, while audiences are going “WTF! Hello, where all over here!!!”
A wise move. As Time’s Style & Design are doing this right now, we wonder how our friends at Forbes Magazine are getting along? Let’s hope biz is faring better for Forbes Mag than it has for Time’s luxury division magazine.
Let’s go Forbes with recession relevant content! When the luxury market suffers, it’s a great time to reinvent do a Warhol and go the pop art, accessible to all route. That’s my design aesthetic tip for luxury magazines in order to survive it out today. Andy Warhol’s value that he gave something from every day American life, like a Campbell’s soup can, as a subject of pop art, as if that can was a Hollywood icon like Marilyn Monroe, holds the key. The luxury market only exists, because wealthy people who like luxury items made their money by creating products for the masses. Like Warhol, we all need to get back to the masses and relevant to them. Luxury peeps especially. Otherwise, they have no reason to be as Time’s Design & Style clearly acknowledges by going on hiatus.
Give the people what they want in the times that they live. Let’s keep it real.
