Chew on this... new magazine

Chew is a platform to promote work locally and globally, an online networking space and voice, an online community experimenting and sharing inspiration for a new generation. It launched 6 August 2008 and can be downloaded free at: www.chewthemagazine.com. Contributors for the launch issue include British photographer Jon Cottam and Swedish stylist Ulrika Knutsdotter; South African photographers Theo Klompje and Bevan Davis and enthusiastic stylist Alexia Kondylis.

Chew Street ID, the second issue, will be available to download in the first week of October. Subscribers are notified of this via email.

“Chew aims to represent the diverse views of the industry, including spheres of fashion and fashion designers, design, photography, styling and more. Chew actively markets contributors' talent globally and we would like to see ourselves as an 'intervention that helps to grow and promote this industry',” said the publishers in a statement.

Chew is the brainchild of creative director and founding partner, Elizabeth Janse van Rensburg and Symfony Digital Solutions.

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Chew magazine was created from the desire and passion of creatives to explore and experiment with their own ideas and to have them published in a high quality, freely available digital magazine. Chew's dream is to give people the opportunity to send in their contributions, whether visual, verbal or interactive, and serve it up in Chew. It allows folks to experiment, explore, collaborate and above all, to have fun - making this a magazine for the people, by the people, they say.