Showing posts with label old magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old magazines. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2014

Highlights Hello

Highlights HelloHello has only been out for a few months, just in time for our new arrival and so far she loves it she's 16 weeks today. The pictures are bright, colorful, simple, yet detailed enough to hold her attention. I love the variety short story, a sing-a-long song using a familiar tune but with new words and pictures to match, Find It puzzle and rhymes. The magazine comes plastic wrapped so you don't have to worry about all of the various hands that touch it and the pages are laminated and rounded (no staples either) so it feels sturdy and safe for little hands. So far we love this magazine and read the issues over and over to our little one. I feel that this magazine can growth with her. I look forward to each delivery.

We've gotten Highlights Hello for a couple months now. It was a gift for my 1 year old, and not only does she love it, but my 3 year old does as well. The pictures are cute, bright and colorful. The stories and poems are cute and short, just right for little attention spans. It is printed on a good quality, slick paper; it does not feel cheap at all. Safe and cute for little ones. Very much worth it!

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At first I thought a magazine for a baby sounded silly. But when my just turned one year old started constantly trying to steal her big sister's High Five magazine, I decided to give the this one a try. I'm so glad I did! My baby girl loves having her own magazine. She wants to read it every night before bed and then even wants to take it into her crib with her. Just like the other Highlights magazines, the content is engaging, very cute, and age appropriate. Even my older daughter is curious about it when a new issue arrives and she wants to "read" it to her little sister. So cute to see them excited about looking at it together. I'm also pleased with the construction. Just when the stitching (instead of staples) started to come a little loose, a new issue arrived. Our first issue has held up well, and my daughter has been pretty hard on it the way she plays with it in her crib every night. Leave it to Highlights to come up with a magazine for babies and toddlers that actually works for that age group!

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Our older daughter is a HIGHLIGHTS magazine subscriber, we had no doubt this product was going to be what we really needed to make our newly born baby start to get a notion of books, he enjoys it, looks at the pictures, listen our stories, bites it he just loves it! and so do we. we highly recommend it.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Yachts International (1-year auto-renewal)

Yachts InternationalThis magazine is the best on the subject when it comes to super yachts. Every other month you get a magazine that is at least 250 pages of full color. Great reviews with pictures, and etc make you feel like you're on the boat. Also has lots of news regarding yachts that are currently in construction and also articles about the yachting life. I highly recommend this magazine!

It is important to note that this magazine only arrives once every two months. I knew this going into it, but bought it anyways because the price was so great. The only thing about yachts is that once you're done looking at all the pretty pictures, it's unlikely you'll want to review them again too many times over the course of 2 months before your next issue arrives.

Other than the frequency of issues, the quality of the magazine is good, with nice print quality and colorful pictures. A few articles and good coverage of new/developing yachts and mega-yachts.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Art De L Enluminure

Art De L EnluminureAnyone reading this already knows that Illuminated Manuscripts are a passion in our modern, mass-production age. So what's the excitement here? Anyone reading this will already know the Tres Riches Heures, the Book of Kells, the Grimani Breviary, and the dozen or so "heavy hitters" of the field. They will know the great collections: The BL, the BN, the PML, etc. Many reference books are old and have mediocre black and white pictures, and you pay a small fortune for color plates, and a large fortune for facsimiles. This series addresses all that. There are full color (and great quality) photos, terrific manuscripts that are often less well-known but no less grand. I own 3 illuminations by the Dunois Master, and wanted a holdable version of the miniatures in the Dunois Hours. For about 12 bucks I have it, full size + details in glowing colors. I saw the Graduel of St. Die and was enchanted by it. No facsimile available but a whole treatise here and pictures and descriptions. Yes there's the ubiquitous Tres Riches Heures and a few others, but when you start getting into specific examples of style, technique, history, and provenance, these volumes are superb. By the way, nothing wrong with the commentaries of Jonathan Alexander, Francois Avril, and the editorial staff. For enthusiasts, this is fantastic!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

New York Spaces

New York SpacesNew York Spaces may be a somewhat pricey magazine; but it's got quite a bit to it. The most recent issue features diverse articles that range from how to remodel a townhouse built in the 1850s to homes in "hip" Hoboken, New Jersey and even homes that are located in "the center of the art world." There are briefer articles pointing out new homes in Long Island City, New York, too. Although you might initially mistake this publication for being somewhat pretentious, New York Spaces is a very good home decorating magazine.

The articles are both timely and well written so that people can understand what on Earth the authors are talking about; and they have great graphics and photos as well. The quality of the paper on which the magazine is printed is rather good; and the cover is bound well, too. I was especially impressed with the article entitled "1850s Modern" which displays just how well you can transform a rather old home into something hip, cool and very sophisticated.

There's one minor objection that I do have: The magazine has many, many advertisements. This can be a bother if you're trying to learn from reading articles; but on the other hand the magazine advertisements display furniture and artwork very well. The displays in the advertisements are great for giving you ideas for decorating your own home. In a time when things are financially tough, you could skip hiring a professional decorator and take ideas from the ads themselves to design your home yourself.

Some of these featured homes may be pricey; but don't let that deter you. It's amazing just how much you can accomplish by getting decorating ideas from this magazine and buying very similar but less expensive things that accomplish your decorating goals.

Overall, New York Spaces is a solid decorating magazine for people who want to indulge themselves in trendy, "hip" homes. And why not--after all, you only live once! I recommend this magazine for people who want very sophisticated decorating ideas especially if they want to decorate their homes themselves.