Project archive: Magazines
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The Book Collector
The Book Collector is the leading English-language journal for encouraging, supporting and informing all kinds of book collecting. The bringing together of books, by institutions and individuals, has supported the spread and preservation of ideas for as long as books have existed, and our libraries are bedrocks of civilisation. Book collecting as a private pursuit has flourished for centuries, and today underpins an international commercial network of dealers, auctioneers and buyers worth millions of pounds every year.
Bookswarm created a new WooCommerce-based site which includes the ability to order digital only or physical + digital subscriptions. Digital subscriptions are delivered via Exact Editions, and the site has a bespoke integration with their White Labelling service.
“Working with Simon, Alex and Susie on our new website for The Book Collector has been a thoroughly positive experience. They approached a complex migration with skill and flexibility, helping us translate a long list of bespoke requirements into a clean, intuitive WordPress site that is far easier to manage and develop.
Their creativity, responsiveness and clear understanding of the book world made them an ideal partner, and their willingness to adapt as the project evolved was invaluable. We would happily recommend Bookswarm and look forward to continuing our work with them.”
Sarah Bennett, Editorial Assistant & Website Manager, The Book Collector
New Welsh Review
Founded in 1988 as the successor to The Welsh Review (1939-1948), Dock Leaves and The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949-1987), New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English.
After undertaking an initial consultancy exercise funded by the Welsh Books Council into the options for digital publishing that would work best for NWR, we designed and built a new website for New Welsh Review, which uses WordPress and WooCommerce to allow them to sell books, magazines and subscriptions – with subscribers also receiving access to an extensive archive of online articles, and a library of digital back issues delivered via our partner Circular Software’s Masterplan system.
The site also acts as the home for the New Welsh Writing Awards, and as a submissions portal for non-fiction, short fiction and poetry.
PHOENIX Magazine
We worked with London fashion and lifestyle magazine PHOENIX to upgrade their website, allowing them to publish monthly digital issues in addition to their twice-a-year print editions. This is more than just a news section, as articles are organised in to monthly issues, as well as organised in to categories.
“When it came to redesigning PHOENIX magazine’s digital platform, Simon and the Bookswarm team made the process from initial ideas and wire-framing to functional website as uncomplicated as possible. The overhauled site functions as a monthly digital magazine hybrid, and is easy for our team of journalists to use and update. We’re very happy with the final version and recently received an honourable mention for its design at the 2017 Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards – thank you Simon!”
Hannah Kane, Editor-in-Chief, PHOENIX Magazine
Wasafiri Magazine
We designed and built a new e-commerce website for Wasafiri, the magazine which encourages readers and writers to travel the world via the word. For over three decades, Wasafiri have created a dynamic platform for mapping new landscapes in contemporary international writing featuring a diverse range of voices from across the UK and beyond. Committed to profiling the ‘best of tomorrow’s writers today’ they simultaneously celebrate those who have become established literary voices, offering a creative space for dialogue and debate.
