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Magazine of the week: Draft #6

It’s been a couple of years since issue 5, but here at last is issue 6 of Draft magazine.

The front cover features a watercolour by Jake and Dinos Chapman, printed on watercolour paper and glued to the high-gloss cover, above, with the logo blind embossed into the card. The issue takes a slightly different approach to previous issues. Instead of new commissions, all the content has been selected from the Archive of Modern Conflict, an obscure London-based archive of very varied material, as the magazine demonstrates.

Photographer Donovan Wylie offers a pair of images of a mural being destroyed during the destruction of the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, above.

Illustrator/designer Anthony Burrill picks a selection of posters from the May 1968 student uprisings in Paris.

Photographer Martin Parr chooses a series of catalogue images of1970s private aircraft.

Stephen Gill’s photographs of obliterated grafitti in east London are a haunting record of an overlooked modern curiosity.

This is only a small selection from the 110+ pages. It’s a fascinating act of visual curatorship by the editorial team, led by Paul Cohen, encompassing history, anthropology, design, technology to name just a few directions. Wonderful stuff.