This is Bastard. A submission driven art & design PDF magazine, brough to you for free. Keen to present a broad range of contemporary art and design created by hand or with the computer.

Yes you are all waiting for issue 11. Please be patient. Currently my time is very short but I try to get this thing online as soon as possible!

Still I am looking forward to recieve a little donation from you, to help me keep Bastard alive.

How you can support Bastard Magazine

Seems like I got some problems with the newsletter system. I hope I'll find time to fix that in the next days.

This magazine is a submission driven art & design magazine. We are keen to present a broad range of styles. Every 2 months artists and designers present themselves in the magazine, featuring work that is of high quality but little known amongst a wider audience. It is a colorfoul mix of illustrations, design and photography, with a wide variety of angles, themes and styles. Bastard sees itself as a platform for promoting worldwide graphic design and encouraging networking with it.

Bastard dispenses entirely with editional contributions. We want to present visual art in it's purest form. The magazines strives to present only the work itself and nothing more. No biographical information regarding the creators of the work, no review or assessment of the work, and no other form of written content that could influence or inform the reader further than the immediate emotional response that the work itself prompts. For further information, there are, if available, links to the website of the individual artists.

You can download a free copy of the magazine and save it on your PC, Mac, Notebook or PDA. But please don't offer your copy for download on any kind of webspace or website. You may link to our site to tell the world about Bastard magazine, but please link to the site and not to the PDF files. Thanks a lot.

To view Bastard magazine, you need a computer, Adobe Acrobat Reader and eyes.

Bastard is a submission driven magazine. We are always looking for your works! If you want to submit your art to Bastard magazine, please read the submission guide first. Submissions not fitting the rules will not be used in the magazine!

Art and design contributions can be digital images, photos, scanned drawings and sketches or whatever fits into a PDF file. All your contributions should be in 920 (width) x 550 (height) pixels. I don't really like to resize or cut your works. So please not that!

Send your works via e-mail. Save them in highest quality compression . You can zip them if you want. Format can be jpeg, gif, tiff, psd or pdf files. Please add a text file to your e-mail including your full name, your country and, if available, your website URL.

You can submit as many pieces of work as you want. I will have a look at all of them, but maybe not all will be in the final issue of the magazine. But don't be afraid. I'll keep your stuff on my harddisk and maybe you will find it in another future issue of Bastard magazine.

You can create new images particularly for the magazine but you can also submit a selection of work that you've done in the past, maybe for another client.

Ads, information and banners are also very welcome. If you have a company running, selling t-shirts, books or other crazy stuff, just get in contact with me to publish your adds in Bastard magazine.

Bastard Magazine has been created and is published by Sven Tauras. He's the man behind the mag. After having some success with managing a design portal called Cobalt Revolter, he decided to focus on publishing a digital art & design magazine. That was the time, Bastard Magazine was born.
Sven is a 26 years old guy, born and raised in good old Germany. He is always happy when he gets mail from you!
You can also contact him via ICQ by using this number: 136.264.311. Sven Tauras is also writing a nice little blog. If you can read and understand german, feel free to visit it.

Extra special love and a big thank you to all the design portals and artists that post a link to Bastard Magazine. We apreciate this. And be shure, Bastard Magazine would not be what it is today without your support.

The Bastard logo can be downloaded as an EPS file to put a link to Bastard Magazineon your site.

Thanks to Alex at DSN for creating the Jingle!

The skull logo is copyrighted and has been provided by Cristiana Yambo from cutedeadthings.com.

The Bastard Magazine is currently looking for companies in related fields to sponsor and thereby help us to provide great content on a regular basis. If you are interested and would like more information, contact us via e-mail.

For the last 2 years, the Bastard Magazine has been a free PDF magazine. And I want it to stay free. If you think there is a lot of work behind this One-Man-Project (It is indeed!), and if you want to support me and the magazine to keep this thing free for everybody who's interested in art and design, I'd look forward to recieve a little tip from you.

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