DPI Magazine
I.must.have.DPI. Really. I have heard nothing but good things about DPI magazine. From Taiwan, it’s an art, graphic design, animation and toy magazine. Glossy and beautiful and full of artists you don’t see often in American magazines.
So, how do you get one? That’s the tricky part. I emailed them a few months ago to ask if I could make an order to be sent to the US and received not a single word of a reply. So I assumed I was out of luck. Then my husband visited Singapore (and S. Korea) and I asked him to please please keep an eye out for it, but alas, it was not to be found in Borders Singapore nor the Japanese bookstore nearby.
Not to be deterred, when I saw that Anna Ventura was in the latest issue, I thought I’d make another try. I also saw that someone from the magazine left a comment on her blog so I took that as a good sign that someone there speaks a bit of English.
First I went to the site with Chinese translator software running. I actually got everything in the cart and got to the payment part. It connects you to a separate service for credit card processing and that site refused the connection. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! But lo and behold I found a different page to order through and I gave it a try. I got an automatic order confirmation, so I’m holding my breath to see if I get a real person to tell me shipping cost or just to send them. I don’t really care about the shipping cost. They would be be birthday present (next week). The currency works out to $6 per issue without shipping. I expect the shipping will be quite expensive as a year’s subscription sent to the US is $300. I think that’s for 12 issues but I’m not sure. This order should be cheaper since they are not being sent one at a time. If you want to see some more dpi goodness, try these links:
- Small Object - scroll to the bottom
- Joe Bling
- Helium Cowboy’s blog
- Kelmurphy
- Alex Noriega
- Nate Williams
- Jill Bliss
- Crick Skipper - has a link to the pdf file of his article
- lili piri
- and my favorite, the wonderful Amy Sol
If my order goes through, I ordered an extra copy of the latest issue (Anna Ventura’s) for a blog giveaway. Stay tuned!
Update: I just got a call from my credit card company to see whether I really made a payment today for $51 to Taiwan. Well, yes indeed I did! Let’s see what happens next, because that’s the amount of the order without shipping. No emails from DPI yet besides the automated confirmation.