Aspen (magazine)

[3] Described by its publisher as "the first three-dimensional magazine," each issue came in a customized box or folder filled with materials in a variety of formats, including booklets, "flexidisc" phonograph recordings, posters, postcards and reels of super-8 movie film.

Many of the leading figures in contemporary North American and British art and cultural criticism were editors, designers or contributors to Aspen.

The magazine has remained of interest to students of the artistic ferment of the late 1960s; extensive documentation of Aspen's contents is available online at UbuWeb.

Published in December, 1966, the issue is housed in a box with graphics based on the packaging of "Fab" laundry detergent.

Highlights of subsequent issues include critical essays by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag; a multi-part cardboard sculpture by Tony Smith; sound recordings with accompanying printed scores by John Cage, Morton Feldman and La Monte Young; films by Robert Rauschenberg and Hans Richter; a recording by Yoko Ono and John Lennon; and a pre-publication excerpt of J. G. Ballard's novel Crash.