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032c #17

I’ve always enjoyed 032c, but following editor Joerg Koch’s excellent presentation of his magazine at Colophon2009 I have even more respect for what he and his team are doing. Hearing how the title has journeyed from self-conscious outsider to become increasingly more professional in presentation and content was one of the highlights of Luxembourg. Koch’s personable wit and humour served to underline the strength and seriousness of his magazine.

The newly released Issue 17 attempts to find optimism in the current era of despair, and provides evidence of one of the main things that makes 032c stand apart from other magazines – the breadth of its remit. Like all great magazines it has the confidence to mix material that elsewhere would never sit together. The new issue has major interviews with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn alongside a series of nudes of Agyness Deyn by Alasdair McLellan (the subject of great interest from the British tabloids), while elsewhere artist-designer Mike Mills gives an extensive interview to Nick Currie and artists Slavs & Tatars mark Iran’s elections with a pictorial overview of the past thirty years in that country.

All of which comes presented in a new calmer version of Mike Meire’s spontaneous-ugly design, printed on the usual mix of papers. Buy it here.