2012 | Happy Holidays & Happy New Year 

Here’s a fun trailer with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Chuck D, Questlove, Sally and Sarah for the brand new App. Release date to be announced soon.

For Sophisticated Rebels and Savvy Individuals. By downloading BLAG’s iPad App, you get to experience our exclusive content in a brand new way, with a refreshed design that could never be printed. See exclusive shoots with your favourite actors and musicians. Read insightful long-form interviews, watch bonus video and listen to audio pieces. By Sally A. Edwards and Sarah J. Edwards.

•Design is bespoke, and you’ll experience the App in completely different ways — just turn the iPad around and get a whole new view. 

•Tap the page and press Contents, touch the finger prints to move to the next page, scroll text, press icons for pop-up videos, photography and music.  

•Enjoy dedicated horizontal and vertical designs with interactivity video, audio, slideshows, and pop-ups, with brand new text layouts. 

•HTML5 searchable content

•Bookmarks

The BLAG Deluxe App was produced in QuarkXPress using Quark App Studio. 

Issue Nø 2 Highlights: 

— Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Bronson, Mad Max: Fury Road) in a world-exclusive shoot  and 11,500 words of wisdom, jokes and inspiration, with a video outtakes. 

— Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes, Prometheus) in a world-exclusive shoot and 11,500 word interview about roles, life, decisions and opinions, with video outtakes. 

— See Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in a bubble bath put to the test with the BLAG word game. Click on each to reveal how they handle it.

— Artist Stuart Semple and Photographer Matt Holyoak create a BLAG girls poster. Touch the poster for a letter from the artist.

— Chuck D and ?uestlove take on each other in an interview battle, where Chuck interviews BLAG’s Sarah and ?uestlove interviews BLAG’s Sally. 

— A 20 year historical BLAG journey with unseen photos, quotes, anecdotes and contributions including; Dennis Pennis, OutKast, Chad Hugo of N*E*R*D, Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), Common, Andrew Garfield, Aaron Taylor Johnson, The Hives, Rupert Grint, Ash, Joseph Fiennes, Nelly Furtado, Amy Winehouse, The Raconteurs, Cillian Murphy and James McAvoy. 

— Phil Frost breaks down his art and find some super hidden content within it.  

— A-Z: Our beautiful interactive A-Z features stories including Theo Martins, The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown aka Frank Friction, Sipsmith, Richard Bull, Phil Knott, Pixel Union, Out of the Sandbox, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Rust and Bone, End of Watch, Daisuke Sakaguchi.

*NEW Surprise! Tom and Noomi also interview each other on video as part of BLAG’s 20th Anniversary Special - watch this space.   Photos in the edition…get your hands on a copy Photography: Sarah J. Edwards Art Direction: Sally A. Edwards Shot on Location at: Belgraves, a Thompson Hotel
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*NEW Surprise! Tom and Noomi also interview each other on video as part of BLAG’s 20th Anniversary Special - watch this space.  

Photos in the edition…get your hands on a copy

Photography: Sarah J. Edwards

Art Direction: Sally A. Edwards

Shot on Location at: Belgraves, a Thompson Hotel

2012 | BLAG’s 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition and You

Star in our special release.

Get in here.

It’s going to be a real party in a book. Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace star on the cover. This is Tom’s only official cover. Each have at least 20 luxurious pages inside and there’s tonnes more. Including Chuck D and ?uestlove’s interview battle with Sally and Sarah and an awesome feature with Phil Frost.

Huge thanks to everyone involved so far - you’re making us smile so much.

2012 | BLAG 20th Anniversary Trailer Two

BLAG 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace take a bath

Round 1, ding ding: The interview battle commences - Chuck D of Public Enemy interviews Sarah.

Sarah interviews Tom Hardy

Sally interviews Noomi Rapace

Round 2, ding ding: ?uestlove of The Roots interviews Sally as part of the interview battle. Who will win? You decide.

Get (in) the edition here

Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and a bubble bath…it’s our 20th Anniversary, so why not?!

Hello!
 
It’s our 20th Anniversary and we want to celebrate with you… It’s going to be the biggest, best party in a book ever!
 
We want to include you in the luxurious 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition, we now have room for 500 readers to be featured in the edition alongside our stellar cast.
 
Reserve your copy today and be a part of history.
 
More details: To mark this very special occasion we’re putting together the most incredible edition of BLAG featuring a worldwide exclusive cover with none other than Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) and Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) - together! We’ve taken the most exclusive and fun photographs and got truly in-depth interviews, we’re so excited.
 
Alongside this we have a star studded cast with new and old school interviews, unseen images and highlights from the last 20 years. You can see just some of the line-up in the trailer above.
 
Reserve your copy today and by reply email send us a photo of you + your name / twitter handle / website to be included.
 
First 1,000 copies signed by Sally and Sarah to you.
 
Photo ideas
~Dress up as your favourite band member, actor or character.
~Your favourite self-portrait / portait.
~An illustration of yourself.
~Mimic your favourite BLAG shoot, you might be posing like Julian Casablancas or taking a bubble bath like Tom Hardy & Noomi Rapace or doing a handstand like Money Mark or posing like the Beastie Boys with your friends.
 
The edition will be in true coffee-table style, even though we’re going back to our fun fanzine roots, we’re sticking with our renowned high production values, gorgeous photography, layouts and art.
 
It’s inspiring, hilarious and a real treasure. We cannot wait to share it with you. It’s been an incredible journey and to thank you, we want you to be a part of it too.
 
Don’t Miss Out. Tell All Your Friends. Share the Video.  
 
With thanks and love,
 
 
Sally and Sarah
2012 | BLAG 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition Covers Here it is! The first look at the front and back covers of our Collectors Edition. Don’t forget you can star in it too, we’ve had some incredible photographs sent in. Just reserve your copy and send us your photo, details are here Or you can reserve a copy without submitting a photo here  Whichever tickles your fancy. Please feel free to reblog from the original source. Please do not crop, edit or photoshop as this piece is a collaboration with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. Thanks in advance.
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2012 | BLAG 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition Covers

Here it is! The first look at the front and back covers of our Collectors Edition.

Don’t forget you can star in it too, we’ve had some incredible photographs sent in. Just reserve your copy and send us your photo, details are here

Or you can reserve a copy without submitting a photo here 

Whichever tickles your fancy.

Please feel free to reblog from the original source. Please do not crop, edit or photoshop as this piece is a collaboration with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. Thanks in advance.