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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

ART4D PROVES BILINGUAL MAGS CAN WORK

Art4d magazine is an extremely good architecture, art and design magazine. It's been around for a while but just recently I grabbed a copy for the first time.
The magazine is bilingual (Thai and English) and for a mere 50 baht it's extremely good value for money. It has the look and feel of a 'Western' magazine and is pretty well advertised in its 92 pages.

Last months edition - which is still available in places - contained a really informative and interesting feature on the redesign of popular Thai women's magazine Dichan and how the publisher went about the process of choosing a new font type.

If you're even remotely interested in the topics of art and design I'd say this magazine is a must, but even if you're not I'd suggest having a look because it's a really good example of how a bilingual magazine can work really well.

3 comments:

Anonymous 8:00 AM  

It's good to know that this mag is still running. It was one of my favourites.

(c) 2016 Written by Andrew Batt 8:09 AM  

Hi 'Pong,

Thanks for your comment. Judging from advertising alone (and assuming it's being sold at a decent rate) I'd say it's going to be around for a while. I also think 50 baht is an absolute bargain. They could charge 100 baht easily and it would still be value for money.

Matthew Hunt 9:03 AM  

Yes, this is one of my favourite Thai magazines.

Mat.

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