magCulture Live is moving online bringing their annual New York conference to your home with their two-hour event on Friday, May 29th 10AM-12PM EST (15:00-17:00 BST) via Zoom. Tickets are £18 and £12 (Students) and can be purchased here.

The two-hour event will be a virtual celebration of magazines in the 2020 pandemic, with international speakers from different areas of magazine publishing sharing creative responses to the Coronavirus. This extraordinary time has brought some brilliant creative work.

Speakers:

• Gail Bichler, Design Director, The New York Times Magazine (New York)
  Since lockdown, Gail and her award-winning NYTMagazine team have produced a series of weekly issues examining every aspect of the pandemic. She will share this remarkable work and discuss collaboration while working from home.

• Jaap Biemans, Founder, Coverjunkie.com (Amsterdam)
  Jaap is art director of the weekly magazine for the Volkskrant newspaper; alongside this he curates the Coverjunkie website, sharing the best magazine covers from across the world. He’ll be talking with Jeremy Leslie about the international visual response to the various stages of the pandemic.

• Martha Dillon, Editor, It’s Freezing in LA! (London)
  Despite Covid-19 and its effects, climate change remains our biggest challenge. Martha will present the recent fifth issue of IFLA! and discuss what climate change and the pandemic mean together.

• Pann Lim, Creative Director, Rubbish FAMzine (Singapore)
  Alongside his creative agency Kinetic, Pann, and his wife Claire and children Renn and Aira, have published nine issues of Rubbish FAMzine, a unique collaborative project about their lives. He’ll be sharing advice on staying creative in lockdown.

• Max Siedentopf, Creative Director, Ordinary & Toiletpapa (London)
  Known for his absurdist visual humour, Max will be sharing recent work created during the lockdown.

As well as our speakers, we’re busy collecting lockdown advice from many of our favourite magazine teams; each ticket will come with a PDF guide to favourite movies, music, recipes and more. And there'll also be some surprises along the way.

Tickets are £18 and £12 (Students) and can be purchased here.