This may be a sign that I am getting older but I don’t immediately dismiss shelter magazines like I once did. An old Domino magazine crossed my path this weekend and I spent an hour reading it. But you know what I really miss? I miss Blueprint.
If precious twentysomething style had a shelter magazine Blueprint was it. I knew the magazine died (I am kicking myself for not getting a subscription to support its killer editorial) but after my Domino experience I figured I could at least enjoy the Blueprint website. WRONG! They let that die too. Come on Martha, how the hell are we supposed to grow up to be like you if we don’t have a good starter magazine?
I would wager precious twentysomethings aren’t spendy enough or they spend on Marni and not Smeg but come on, I am going to hit my mid twenties soon and I am starting to feel the urge to take shelter!
I completely agree! When the mag died I wrote a post called “Pass the Kleenex” all about how awful it was to axe such a gem. How are we to become the future homemakers of America without such a guide? Smart, stylish, creative, crafty… everything we are.
Blueprint is sorely missed. Oh, and I DID subscribe to it to try to support, so now what do I get? Unwanted copies of “Martha Stewart Living”! Ugh. Sad.
I loved Bluprint! I remember the first issue ever had this great DYI bag made with an old scarf…
I thought that Blueprint’s demise went unnoticed…I really loved it too!
I feel that they didn’t give it enough time to catch on. I guess timing is everything…it’s the difference between being on the bus or under it…and in this case, I think we all missed it.
It was a little jem!!
Hi, Julie! Hope you’ll continue to publish personal posts like this one at Almost Girl. I luv the word Blueprint. Besides being a great name for a magazine, and the title of a Jay-Z album… To me, it sounds at once avant-garde, techie and… poetic because it includes the color blue associated with our inner dreams (sky, Big Blue etc). Actually, I like the word so much that it inspired the title of the first chapter of The New Waver, a brand-new quarterly I’m launching in Paris this September with a team of English-speaking journalists. Each edition will open with a Blueprint for a New Waver, a profile dedicated to a trailblazer who paved the way for future innovators in his or her field. For the first issue, The Hollywood Reporter’s Paris Correspondent Rebecca Leffler has penned a cool portrait of French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz. The headline? Kassowood. Subtitle… Being Mathieu Kassovitz. French cinema’s auteur-provocateur’s on-off affair with Hollywood. Rebecca has a cine lifestyle blog I warmly recommend, which also has a fun title La Fleur de Paris…
OK – It’s sad to say Blueprint’s demise did go unnoticed by me…. I have this very same issue.. as I loved the color combination on the cover and the skirt.. and refused to throw away the issue. Oh darn! Now I really feel bad for not getting a subscription. Oh well, thanks for the blog post. I almost missed it!
This was my favorite magazine ever, and it just disappeared. No wind down. Nothing. The only magazines I have ever kept on a bookshelf as a permanent fixture are my beloved Blueprints…