''Empty'' is a cult

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n "creative" magazine, concerned largely with printed design work, photography, illustration and film, created for the professional creative community. The magazine is published by

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-based Design is Kinky studio, curators of the Semi-Permanent design festival, a fixture in design culture's global landscape, which occurs annually in Australia. The magazine acts largely as a gallery of artwork, both domestic and international. It also features cultural commentary and interviews with artists, animators, other magazines, and so on. Notable interviewees have included Mark Andrews, head of story on

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(cover story, issue 2, late 2004), and

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(issue 3, early-2005). ''Empty'' was launched in April 2004 and is published somewhat arbitrarily, but usually bimonthly. It features little to no advertising. The current editor is

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, creator of ''Empty'' and the above-mentioned Design is Kinky and Semi-Permanent. The magazine enjoys newsstand distribution, but at this time is distributed only within Australia.

Staff

*Editor Andrew Johnstone *Art Direction Design is Kinky Studio

External links

*{{Official website, www.emptymag.com
Design is Kinky website
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