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Alan Maleh, Man of the World’s Publisher and Editor in Chief, talks about creating a new magazine for a niche audience:

In today’s marketplace, you rarely find content that caters specifically to men who value style, travel, food, art, and culture. Man of the World is tightly focused on that group; it doesn’t try to be all things to all people. It’s for a ruggedly sophisticated male niche audience, and it’s somewhere they can go for consistent, compelling, informative content.

MAN OF THE WORLD is a handbook for the modern man, with its DNA inspired by American Heritage. Like most of us growing up, I really appreciated the appeal of the Hollywood icons of the 1960s and ’70s, guys like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino. I wanted to emulate their effortless style and admired their sense of confidence. I think their style is just as relevant today, if not more so.

A conversation with my eldest son sparked an idea. I was telling him: “Do what you’re passionate about and success will follow.” It is then that I decided to create a carefully curated archive where I could showcase and share some of the vintage collectibles that I’m obsessed with, including vintage watches, mid-century furniture and cars.

As my team and I worked on a website, a way of showing the collection, it became obvious that we could not ignore heritage and craft, which was what drew me to collecting in the first place. I realized that Man of the World needed to be as compelling, as it was informational.

The result is this visually driven quarterly magazine, which is an authentic reflection of my taste and experiences, and presents them in a beautifully designed and useful form, laced with just the right amount of eccentricity and whimsy. I hope that our passion shows on every page.

ELLE became the world's largest fashion magazine by suggesting but never prescribing; by offering a rich mix of high and low; and above all by leading the reader to discover her personal style.

A mission is nothing if not a promise: ELLE pledges that even while we change—as every living thing must—we will never lose our intelligence, our wit, our cool, and our ability to be just a little ahead of the times.

Flux is a Manchester based British cultural magazine which focuses on art, fashion, film, music and the curiously strange. It is issued monthly and is edited by Lee Taylor (with Clair Lomax).

Revolution is a luxury horology quarterly, first published in 2005, that has grown to become one of the most successful and influential magazines in its sector. Read by horology enthusiasts, collectors and the who's who of the luxury watchmaking industry, from designers and movement engineers to watchmakers and CEOs, the magazine combines insightful, in-depth articles with bold design and photography that affords a new way of looking at watchmaking.

As of 2007, two editions of Revolution are circulated quarterly in Singapore/Malaysia (the Asian edition), and the USA respectively. The magazine is also published under license in the following territories: Russia/Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, China, Spain, Italy. Revolution is published by Revolution Press International.

Revolution's website on the Internet is Horomundi, a resource site with the latest news on mechanical watches, feature articles, and discussion forums where watch enthusiasts share insights and knowledge about watch collecting. Horomundi hosts a growing list of factory-authorized discussion forums that aims to bring watch brands and collectors/enthusiasts closer. The list of factory-authorized forums on the website currently includes A. Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Girard-Perregaux, Greubel Forsey, Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Philippe, Richard Mille, and Urwerk.

Revolution received an honorary mention for Best Cover Design at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards 2007.