Today BOMB launches its newly redesigned website—a platform for the ongoing creation of artist-to-artist dialogue and a portal into BOMB’s archives. Thanks to funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, over the past two years, BOMB has digitized all of its previously published content—over 6,000 articles involving 7,000 artists. With additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fiddlehead Fund, BOMB’s Board of Trustees, and a “magnanymous” [sic] donor, BOMB redesigned its website to highlight this vast resource of conversations between artists. This dynamic web platform will provide BOMB’s growing online audience, now more than two million strong, with unprecedented and free access to an ever-expanding cultural dialogue. Optimized for mobile devices, the site will accommodate diverse modes of accessing and distributing content, enabling BOMB to reach an even broader audience.
“BOMB online brings together everything we’ve done in 33 years of publishing, and everything we are today,” says Betsy Sussler, BOMB’s Founder & Editor in Chief. “It’s a place for artists of all generations and practices to come together in dialogue about their craft. A place for inspiration and reflection. We’re tapping the Internet’s potential to connect ideas across time. And we’re thrilled to be able to bring these conversations to readers from around the world for free!”
Many thanks to our designers, Everything Studio, and our developers, 29th Street Publishing.
Quarterly
BOMB’s print magazine publishes in-depth interviews between visual artists, writers, performers, directors, musicians, architects, and more, alongside artists’ essays and new literature. On our new website, users can browse all of BOMB’s issues in a virtual newsstand.
Daily
BOMB’s new website premieres BOMB Daily: interviews between artists of all disciplines along with fiction, poetry, and art portfolios, making dynamic and imaginative use of new media. BOMB’s daily content is integrated with archival content, revealing expanding connections between artists of all generations.
Archive
In the archive, you will find all of BOMB’s content published over the past 33 years. BOMB has created a searchable catalog, indexed to enable users to discover connections between artists across disciplines, generations, and movements. When indexing is completed at the end of 2014, all of BOMB’s archival and new content will be navigable as a fully integrated and cross-referenced virtual library.
Web development and design
BOMB’s Web Designer, Tom Griffiths, is the co-owner, with Jessica Green, of Everything Studio, a multidisciplinary design firm in NYC working in all areas of print and interactive design. Their clients include BOMB Magazine, where they are Creative Directors, Cabinet magazine, Future Poem, Moxie Firecracker Films, and Super Orange. In addition to client work, Tom teaches a design-thesis class at Parsons New School for Design.
BOMB’s Web Developer, 29th Street Publishing, makes phone, tablet, and web apps that support the best modern magazines. 29th Street partners with existing and emerging magazines, websites, and publishers to create state-of-the-art reading and subscription experiences. 29th Street’s software and content-delivery platforms support Harper’s, Poetry magazine, Little Star Weekly, One Story, The Awl Weekend Companion, Serious Eats magazine, and ProPublica, among others.
About BOMB
BOMB’s mission is to deliver the artist’s voice. Its founders—New York City-based artists and writers—started BOMB in 1981 because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it. Since then, BOMB has gone on to publish decades’ worth of conversations between artists about their creative process. Today, BOMB is a multimedia publishing house that creates and preserves artist-generated content.
