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Our eternal gratitude, and your name on the Digital Edition. Better us than CADIVI (you know who you are!)
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Founding Father/Mother Pack: Get your name, nickname, brand, name of your band, e-mail or whatever you feel like in the “Proudly Sponsored By” part of the magazine!
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It’s a Digital World Pack: Get your name on the magazine + a digital magazine, featuring all of the content of the print one, sent to you and a shout-out on our website gopherillustrated.org! [url: http://www.gopherillustrated.org]
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Is That a Collector’s Item on Your Shelf? Pack: all of the above + (yes) a copy of the magazine!!! Remember that we’re only making 2,000 copies and that each one is letter-pressed and numbered by hand! Did I just hear the words “collectors item for only 25$”? + inside the magazine we’ll place a thank-you letter with a surprise thingy, so when a friend of yours takes the magazine from the shelf(s) he’ll find out that you were one of our Founding Fathers. (Shipping free of charge to any part of continental USA and Canada)
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High Fidelity Pack: Everything in the previous package + Michu and Lope will make a limited edition, hand crafted and illustrated Mixtape featuring the amazing musicians who have collaborated in The Gopher Illustrated up to Issue #1!! we mean glue, scissors, different kinds of paper, cutting our fingers and your name on it, mates (plus all the amazing music of course) (and shipping conditions apply to this one too, sorry)
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You My Friend, Are Going Places Pack: all of the above + we will write a feature on whatever you want, including yourself, your band, your grandma or your far-fetched alien-lobster theory, on our website and will publicize it for you in all of our platforms!!! We’re talking about thousands of readers each month, thousands of converts to alien-lobster theory!
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Oh My God You’re Truly Into Mags and Books Pack: All of the above + a year's worth of editions of the Gopher Illustrated Magazine!!! Follow us in this adventure with some of the best voices in narrative, journalism and visual arts for a year AND ALSO get a limited edition poster made by Alex Wright, our beloved English graphic designer, brains and hands behind all Gopher imagery. The poster will be signed, hand-numbered and stamped by the Gopher team especially for you!
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We’re Making History Here Pack: all of the above + limited edition poster + we’ll feature you in the magazine’s colophon as a “Executive Editor” right next to us for the whole first year, that is something you can put in your resume if you want ( we’ll back you up if someone calls, don’t worry ), AAANNDD we’ll give you a half page in our first edition for you to fool around with: an article, an ad, a photograph, you name it - its yours.
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And Our Firstborn Pack: Ok, you got us, at the moment we don’t even know how to reward such a blatant generosity: First of all you’ll be our best friend, we’ll say your name everyday to everybody we meet for the whole first year and we’ll go to your city as soon as we can and tell your parents about all your achievements. You will also get everything we offer the mortals above + and copies of ANY FUTURE EDITORIAL PROJECT (BOOKS, POSTERS, MUSIC COMPILATIONS, ETC,) THAT THE GOPHER TEAM MAY (AND WE DO!) HAVE IN STORE + you’ll be featured as “Consultant Editor” for the whole first year + send you an amazing, hand-written letter expressing our love and saying how amazing you are. I mean, wow!
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The Gopher Illustrated emerges from the desire to consume hefty, satisfying cultural content that is worth keeping. We envision a cultural publication whose content is associative, obsessive, ludic and endures in time. Instead of covering the current and the immediate – staples of the internet era – we aim for stories, pieces and ideas that take time, are globally local and ultimately timeless. The “Gopher” is leisurely but is composed of meticulous, opinionated, crafty, original work within its obsessively designed pages. All content is contextualized within networks of meaning; offering internet-like margin content and text and visual add-ons. We believe it is our right as readers and as cultural consumers to access content that is meaningfully and thoroughly addressed without imposing categories of cultural rank. We showcase visual arts and thoughtful journalism without pretense. The Gopher wants to be a cultural item. It is well written, well-researched and designed to be a collectible. Unlike ordinary collectibles, however, our project is interactive; the magazine requires the reader to complete its pages with images enclosed. In this sense, each unit is unique and is only finished once the reader completes it – even the stickers end up on a completely different surface. Ultimately we want to create a magazine that will live in your shelves. A collectible in motion.
