Comments on: Four Minutes to Midnight: Issue Ten

By: LOKi design || Four Minutes to Midnight :: International Women’s Day

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:38:35 +0000

[...] When I first “met” Debbie Millman on SpeakUp, I (along with many others in the community) greeted her with a certain air of hostility due to what we saw as her and her firm’s “corporate and populist (soulless even)” (re)brandings for major corporations and their consumer products. She entered the fray with tenacity and intelligence, taking the criticism head on, and in time revealed through her discourse, truths about design and consumption that I personally had been very reluctant to face. The contrast between how I perceived her branding work and the humanity and wit with which she expressed herself and her personal work seemed so irreconcilable, yet I have since grown to understand it, and in turn learned a hell of a lot about design and branding because of it. Her continued commitment to the profession of design, as AIGA president, publisher, and radio host is a constant inspiration for me. I was so very pleased to include her paintings in the last issue of 2356. [...]

By: LOKi design || Four Minutes to Midnight :: Oh these tumultuous times!

LOKi design || Four Minutes to Midnight :: Oh these tumultuous times! — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:44:56 +0000

[...] Though we don’t have a new issue out, we’ll be selling copies of issues eight, nine and ten at reduced prices alongside a series of fresh posters and prints. We’ll have some information [...]

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:22:55 +0000

Thanks so much for your kind words Geovanni, I’m really happy to hear from you and know that my work is reaching people. Send me your address and I’ll see what I can do.

By: Geovanni Trujillo

Geovanni Trujillo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:51:32 +0000

Hi, I’m a Graphic Design student from Mexico, and I just discovered 23:56 last night. I haven’t been able to stop seeing your work, it’s hard to get enough. To me there’s nothing better than being able to express yourself, and this has it all, written and visual expressions, it’s Visual Poetry.

Your work is very inspirational, it really makes me wanna keep on going and to always try to get a better effort from myself.

Unfortunately my actual economic situation isn’t at it’s best, studying Graphic Design, working and being a father at 20 isn’t the great business. But I’m really looking forward on buying a few of your issues for sweet treasure collection.

Geovanni [Mictlán]

By: Four Minutes to Midnight #10 / December 2008 | GuteSeiten - curated kiosk & magazine club

Sun, 31 May 2009 08:44:05 +0000

[...] 112 x 180mm, 4C cover, BW interior, 182 pages Circulation: 250-300 copies Price: 15 Euro Web: Four Minutes to Midnight Contact: kevin (at) [...]

By: Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 10 Launch Party | LOKi design || Four Minutes to Midnight

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:32:45 +0000

[...] very excited to announce the official launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 10 (finally)! This Saturday, March 7th at Lab Synthese. This is gearing up to be a great event with 4 [...]

By: LOKi design || Four Minutes to Midnight :: Reviewed by Kenneth Fitzgerald of Ephemeral States

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:13:17 +0000

[...] Minutes to Midnight issue 10 has just been reviewed by the reknowned design critic Kenneth Fitzgerald as part of his [...]

By: Over-the-Rhine in 23:56 « Visualingual

Over-the-Rhine in 23:56 « Visualingual — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:33:39 +0000

[...] Four Minutes to Midnight [or 23:56] is an annual experimental literary arts zine edited, designed and published by Montreal-based Kevin Lo and John W. Stuart. The tenth issue explores the idea of radical beauty interpreted through the words and images of over 30 artists, writers and designers, including Cincinnati-based VisuaLingual, who contributed vernacular typography found in Over-the-Rhine. [...]

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:09:54 +0000

from FA… :

man, I don’t know bro, I’ve been in a lot of publications in the past forty years but I must say, this issue is in the top 3, Jesus FUCK brilliant, brilleeeant. I forgot about deleting that line on AMERICAN POSTCARD but the way you put it back in there is fucking beautiful, now I gotta put it back!!!!! and Fugue 10… man O man as exquisite as broken glass in the yard at Pelican Bay… TOO FUCKING MUCH. and I’m in love with Debbie Millman! a solid issue you got there. I have one question: when are you going to publish my next book! all best wishes from here and MANY thanx for including my shit. FA

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:35:25 +0000

Thanks Jesse, glad to have you…

By: Jesse Ferguson

Jesse Ferguson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:56:34 +0000

What a lovingly-produced collection. Very few literary/arts magazines are so visually appealing as to call out to be revisited at a later date, but this one certainly does.
Glad to be on board,
Jesse (Fredericton)