Journal tagged by Designers

A new exhibition in Philadelphia aims to explain why Alexey Brodovitch, the man who first defined the role of the magazine art director, matters. The accompanying catalogue makes the case in words and design. Kirsty Carter from London studio APFEL, who designed the book, spoke to us about its production.

Erotic Review has just been relaunched by editor Lucy Roeder as a journal exploring desire. The new magazine has a unique and subtle typographic identity by Studio Frith, helping it look forward rather than back. We spoke to Frith Kerr about the development of the identity and the language of desire.

A magazine built of leftovers and designed using Microsoft Word may not sound the most exciting prospect. Yet new launch Offal demonstrates just how useful such limitations can be. Mixing leftovers, experiments and overlooked writing, it’s a great read, brought to life by an intriguing design approach.

The ever-evolving Fantastic Man is back with a new format, look and direction that creative director Jop van Bennekom describes as ‘subtle and indeed drastic at the same time.’ Take a look through the pages of the new issue with its new logo, more fashion, and a smart new (single) typeface throughout.

Richard Turley’s latest publishing project is a fashion magazine that contains all the regular elements of such a magazine, except the clothes. Nuts (not to be confused with the nineties lads mag of the same name) is a brilliantly off the wall critique of fashion publishing, using Turley’s trademark editorial approach.

This week we meet Paula Scher, one of three designers invited to design their own version of the new WePresent magazine. Paula is one of the most famous graphic designers working today, and attracting her to an editorial project of this scale is a notable coup. She tells us about the project and the role of Dall-e in producing it.