The Wndr Kabul mobile app is nearly ready – it’s the first mobile application guide to Kabul. It’s free, so download it at: www.wndrkabul.com or if you are an Android user, download here. There is still lots of content to be uploaded, which will be a continuous process over the coming months. We have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, so let us know what you think.

In my quest for new content, found this remarkable video. Showcases some of the stunning scenery the country has to offer. Planning a trip back there later this year, possibly to Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.

One of the best covers we have done for Open Skies, courtesy of Filip Peraic. The story, by Observer film critic, Philip French, is a good one too. We made cover of the day on the Newmanology site.

Coverjunkie has released a magazine featuring some of the best magazine covers of 2011. My
favourite was this brilliant New York Times Magazine cover – simple but beautiful. Last year
saw a lot of excellent covers and a rise in the overall standard of magazines and their design. I
think this probably had to do with the iPad and the belief that if print is to continue, it needs to
play to its strengths. This bodes well for 2012. Wndr will be bringing out some print products of
our own in the next three months, so stay tuned.

Katherine Graham – Personal History
Charlie Koolhas & Ahmad Makia – Evolving Spaces
Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men
Malcolm Lowry – Under The Volcano
Brett Easton Ellis – Imperial Bedrooms
Granta 112 – Pakistan
Thomas D Zengotita – Mediated
Heidi Holland – Dinner With Mugabe

It is nice, and one of my favourite magazines – It’s Nice That is worth hunting down. Some other cool magazines I have picked up on my travels:

Port
Grafik
Lula

PJ Donleavy – The Gingerman
Junichi Saga – Confessions of a Yakuza
John Andrews – The Book of Isms
Nick Davies – Flat Earth News
Alain Robbe-Grillet – Jealousy
Jennifer Steil – The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
Gay Talese – Frank Sinatra Has A Cold & Other Essays
Jan Morris – Destinations
William E Blundell – The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

Jon Fante – Ask The Dust
James Salter – A Sport And A Pastime
David Mamet – Three Uses of The Knife
Vladimir Nabokov – Laughter in The Dark
Richard Ford – The Sportswriter
Charles Saatchi – Artoholic
Paul Willetts – Members Only
Frederic Exley – A Fan’s Notes
Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer

The Japan issue of Open Skies is out this week – if you are flying Emirates, check it out. Been a busy week of presentations with some exciting projects on the horizon. Als0 been getting good numbers on The Dubai Daily, our new daily news mail out. Sign up. And don’t forget to sign up for our daily deals and cheap flights mail outs as well. Also got sent this rather cool football magazine. Once again, independent magazines are raising the bar when it comes to design and production. I think this is probably due to the iPad but I might be wrong. Also did my first live radio show this week – taking part in Nightline to talk about Voila Dubai.