A big thank you to speakers John, Erik, Violetta, Cecilia and Matt and chair Simon for the ‘We Design Magazines’ event last night, and thank you to those members who made it along.

As I said at the end of the evening, EDO are keen to get feedback from members about what type of event we should be holding and who we should be inviting to talk. Please let us know what you like/dislike about what we’re doing by adding comments to this post or emailing me directly at jeremy.leslie (at) johnbrownmedia.com

Our next event will be after the summer – see you then.

Our next event takes place on 18 June. ‘We Design Magazines’  is a panel discussion featuring some of London’s best young editorial designers, chaired by Simon Esterson. This will be a rare chance to hear a selection of different magazine designers show their work and discuss how they came to be working in magazines. The panel includes Jon Butterworth, Camouflage; Violetta Boxill and Cecilia Lindgren, Architectural Review; and Erik Torstensson, Saturday-London/Man About Town.

UPDATE: Matt Willey from Studio8 has been added to this event, speaking about his one-off design for Futu magazine.

Tickets cost £15 for members, £30 non-members and £5 for students/tutors.

‘We Design Magazines’ is being held on Thursday, 18 June at The Moving Picture Company.

For further information and to book your place/s please contact the EDO Administration at edo@gillbranston.com.

EDO members can get free access to a Creative Review/Colophon panel discussion in London next month.  Four independent magazine makers will show their work and share their experiences of self-publishing.

Confirmed speakers for the session, which will also celebrate publication of the book ‘We Make Magazines’, are Danny Miller from Little White Lies and Karen Lubbock from Karen magazine. Others TBC.

UPDATE: Becky Smith, art director of Lula, has joined the line-up.

It takes place 3-5pm on Wednesday 10 June. Full details at CRBlog. Tickets are £10 but there are a number set aside for EDO members, one per member. If you want to come along please email:  jeremy.leslie (at) johnbrownmedia.com

There are also a limited number of reduced price tickets available for students, if you would like one please email tara.nair-stuber (at) centaur.co.uk

Our next event will be a group event, with several leading art directors sharing their work and their thoughts on the state of editorial design.

Full details to follow – meanwhile keep Thursday 18 June clear in your diary.

The dapper Mr Dadich, fresh from judging the D&AD Awards, joined us at the Soho Hotel last week to talk us through his work on Wired magazine. And what a talk it was: not only did he show great work, his presentation, humour and insight made it one of the most inspiring talks about magazine design I’ve witnessed.

A big thank you to Scott for sharing his designs and thoughts with us – Jeremy.

Reviews and photos on Things To Look At and Eye Blog.

We can now open the Scott Dadich talk (this thursday, April 23rd) to non-members.

Remaining tickets cost £15 (members) or £30 non-members.

For further information and to book your ticket please contact the EDO Administration at edo@gillbranston.com.

Scott Dadich has established American Wired as a powerhouse of creative editorial design. The magazine is a rare combination of raw editorial thought and highly sophisticated information design. He will be showing us examples of his work and discussing his methods.

Wired has received many design awards, and was the most represented publication at our recent DIY exhibition. This event coincides with the launch in the UK and Italy of local editions of Wired.

Tickets are limited so this is a members only event, at £15 each (with some student tickets at £5).

For further information and to book your place/s please contact the EDO Administration at edo@gillbranston.com.

NOTE: Tickets are moving very fast for this event, please book soon to avoid disappointment.

Thank you everyone who came along to the party last night, and particularly to those of you who submitted work to the DIY Exhibition. We ended up with a strong set of work. No winners or losers but the two most prominently represented designers were our own Matt Willey and from America Scott Dadich.

Which leads nicely into a reminder that there will be news soon of our next event: Scott Dadich talks on April 23rd. Details here next week.

CR Blog and Things To Look At have further pictures and reports.

A quick reminder that the EDO members party takes place Thursday evening in London. TONIGHT! Full details here.

We’re still after more of your DIY Exhibition entries – if you’re coming don’t forget to bring a front cover or spread that can be exhibited for the evening. No fuss, just a tear sheet or photocopy that can be recycled at the end of the evening. We hope to create a unique snapshot of our member’s favourite editorial designs from 2008.

We have some great stuff already but which single piece would you choose to represent the year? Which item would you be disappointed not to see amongst this extremely un-scientific design poll?

If you can’t make it, add a comment here with a suggestion and I’ll see if I can find the piece in question and enter it for you.

Studio8’s Matt Willey and Clare Watters, Deputy Creative Director at John Brown have both agreed to join the EDO committee.