Blog entries have been few and far between lately because we have been working flat-out on the new Turnleft website, with little time for anything else than drawing city maps, finishing texts, hovering and dehovering. Here it is at last, the shiny and new Spring/Summer ‘2010 collection – a big thanks to our art director Ben Freeman and to our developers for all the hard work.
We have a new online guide section with new walks dedicated to architecture, design, fashion, art and food. It is still a work in progress but click on City Guides, select your continent, then your city and start browsing through our interactive guide. Don’t forget to click on bold texts for extra photography and references. Then get your sneakers and look at cities the Turnleft way. Let us know what you think – over April we will fine tune the existing content, add more resources and initiate new cities just in time for summer… Expect a few surprises along the way.
This is an exciting avenue for Turnleft and a shift toward a stronger online and mobile presence. This is 2010 after all and even if we love innovative print formats, waiting for sponsors has sometimes been a pain and we’re keen to publish for all our enthusiastic followers who can’t get access to our collector print copies. And yes our first iPhone apps should be out before the summer and we are still pondering about the iPad.
We’ve been bombarded with new ideas lately – Buenos Aires, Barbados (!!!), Nantes (!!!!!) – and it’s been the case of so many cities, so little time. Sorry but we’re a small team and for this season we will expand our content for the 10 cities already under coverage with new destinations on our radar screen – Cape Town, Istanbul, Milan, Shanghai and Tel Aviv to name a few. If you want to contribute content or sponsor a limited edition, in print or digital, get in touch pronto before the first bank holidays. And we’re more flexible than it sounds, we would be on the next flight to anywhere if it involved more architecture porn and a swimwear photoshoot!
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