Aaron Sigmond

Aaron Sigmond
Nationality American
Occupation Author, editor, publisher

Aaron Sigmond is an American author, editor and publisher with a focus on luxury heritage brands.

Magazine and publishing career

Sigmond moved from Los Angeles to New York City to pursue a career in magazine publishing.[1][2] He created and launched the cigar lifestyle periodical Smoke magazine.[3][4][5] Along the way he became a recognized authority on cigars,[6][7] wine and spirits.[8] Sigmond worked his way up to become Group Publisher of Profile Pursuit,[9] focusing on custom publishing for clients such as Crunch Fitness[10] and publisher of Radar.[11] Among his other work in custom media was Trump Magazine,[12] a glossy published with Donald Trump. Sigmond was most recently Editor-in-Chief of Mechanics of Style, a custom digital men’s luxury lifestyle journal for Girard-Perregaux.[13] Sigmond also served as the Group Luxury Editor for DoubleDown Media[14] and was the launch publisher of Radar magazine.[15][16]

Sigmond unsuccessfully attempted to launch a glossy magazine based on the Suicide Girls.[17]

Writing career

Sigmond at the launch of the Playboy: Book of Cigars in 2010.

Sigmond has written for publications including Robb Report,[18] Worth,[19] The Big Stage from the NYSE,[20] and American Photo.[21][22] He also served as contributing editor or senior contributing editor for Autoweek[23][24] and Playboy,[25] for which he wrote Playboy: The Book of Cigars with Nick Kolakowski.[26] Sigmond is also a noted timepiece writer, having written for both Revolution[27] and aBlogToWatch.[28] He has published two related books: The New Face of Tradition: Young Watch Masters of Girard-Perregaux & The Art of Making Time[29] and the forthcoming Drive Time: Watches Inspired by Automobiles, Motorcycles and Racing (Rizzoli, 2016), with a foreword by car and watch collector Jay Leno.[30][31]

Sigmond has also written a series of children’s books, The Adventures of Zach, Zoey and Pilot the Dog, under his childhood nickname, “Sig.”[31][32]

Works

Sigmond presenting his book The Adventures of Zach & Zoey with illustrator Patrick Regout in 2014 at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

References

  1. ↑ "Sun, Beach and Sand -- I Think I'd Rather Be Back in the Office". The Wall Street Journal. July 30, 2003.
  2. ↑ "Playboy The Book of Cigars". Amazon.
  3. ↑ "Brady's Bunch". Advertising Age. October 2, 1995.
  4. ↑ "Events & Promotions; Exploding Cigars; Affluent Smokers Light Up Interest in Sponsored Events, Special Magazines". Advertising Age. July 22, 1996.
  5. ↑ "Jungle Rumbles with Staff Exits". New York Post. March 5, 2003.
  6. ↑ "My Most Memorable Cigars". UK Cigar Scene. May 2015. p. 31.
  7. ↑ "Cuban Cigars: Why Obama's New Policy Won't Mean a New Flood of Cohibas from Havana". Bloomberg News. December 17, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Brown-Forman Combats Bourbon Shortage". NYSE Big Stage. October 15, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Comings & Goings". Advertising Age. February 4, 2002.
  10. ↑ "It's Crunch Time for a New Magazine With a Broad Spin". Los Angeles Times. January 23, 2002.
  11. ↑ "Start-up: Industry eyes are on launch of indie 'Radar'". Advertising Age. January 27, 2003.
  12. ↑ "Trump World Magazine". Mediabistro.
  13. ↑ "An Intro To Girard-Perregaux’s Mechanics Of Style Web Magazine". aBlogtoWatch. February 24, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond rises to group luxury editor at Doubledown Media". Media Life. August 13, 2008.
  15. ↑ "The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and—maybe—Rise of Radar". The New York Review of Magazines. Spring–Summer 2006.
  16. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond". Mediabistro.
  17. ↑ "Publishing Suicide". Esquire. March 9, 2007.
  18. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond". Robb Report.
  19. ↑ "Event: playboy - the book of cigars". Lookbooks. May 24, 2010.
  20. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond". NYSE Big State.
  21. ↑ "Vivian Maier, Invisible Woman". American Photo. October 15, 2011.
  22. ↑ "Adamant Eve". American Photo. April 3, 2012.
  23. ↑ "Sightings...". New York Post. December 17, 2011.
  24. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond". Autoweek.
  25. ↑ "Cuba Libre". Playboy. January–February 2010.
  26. ↑ "Playboy The Book of Cigars". Skyhorse Publishing.
  27. ↑ "Fast Times: The History of Ferrari Watches". Revolution. Winter 2012–2013.
  28. ↑ "Aaron Sigmond". aBlogtoWatch.
  29. ↑ The New Face of Tradition: Young Watch Masters of Girard-Perregaux & The Art of Making Time (PDF). Girard-Perregaux/Sowind S.A. 2014.
  30. ↑ "Concept Watches: Look, Don’t Touch". The New York Times. March 19, 2015.
  31. 1 2 "Aaron "Sig" Sigmond". Goodreads.
  32. ↑ "About ZZP". The World of Zach, Zoey & Pilot.

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