Podcast: Joe Hedinger, Dog Ear magazine

This month we sent a special extra thing in our Stack deliveries to subscribers. Dogear is a bookmark that thinks it’s a magazine: a single sheet of A4 folded into a concertina to give 10 panels, each one occupied by a piece of micro fiction, a poem, an illustration, or some other little oddity.

It’s the brainchild of editor Joe Hedinger and designer Pete Lewis, and it makes for a beautifully quiet an unassuming piece of print. Dogear actually started back in 2012 before taking a break because of work commitments, but I was very pleased when Joe contacted me earlier this year to say that they’re back on with new content, new partners and a new publishing and education masterplan.

Stack subscribers have been tweeting and instagramming about the funny little bookmark all month, so I met up with Joe last week to find out exactly what’s going on in the world of Dogear. You can hear the results below, and if you’re not already a Stack subscriber, remember it’s not too late to pick up a copy of Dogear, plus our main magazine this month – just sign up to Stack before the end of May and we’ll put a package in the post to you.

Brief thanks also need to go this week to Liv Siddall, editor of the Rough Trade magazine and presenter of their podcast, for putting me onto the Rode Reporter microphone. I used it for the first time speaking to Joe, and it did a brilliant job of cutting out the wind, traffic and all the other noise you’d normally pick up standing in the street outside a pub in London. Thanks Liv! If you’d like to hear more of our podcasts (some featuring rather more background noise than they should) head over to Soundcloud or iTunes and take a look through for your favourite magazine makers.