Journal tagged by Magazine-y

On a mission to bring true Indonesian food to the world, Rahel Stephanie runs London’s sell-out supper club Spoons and has just launched a zine, Pedas. A mix of recipes and musings about Rahel’s Jakarta roots, it has been vividly designed to express the spice of the cuisine. She tells us more as she shares her week ahead.

 

Magazines can be many things, but distribution channel for student design research promises something special. February’s Magazine of the Month delivers on that promise: the latest issue of A Line Which Forms A Volume, the annual print output from MA Graphic Design students at the London College of Communication.

Our Page 23 strand uses the randomly selected 23rd page of a magazine to highlight an attribute or factor in magazine-making. It returns after a break with the latest edition of Dutch gardening magazine Pleasant Place; their third issue—themed Compost—features a heavier paper stock in its centre pages.

First launched in reponse to the pandemic, to bring good news to its readers, Paperboy is back with a fourth issue that establishes a longer life for the magazine than perhaps even founder David McKenrick anticipated. The ability to entice great contributors to articulate his wit makes it our Magazine of the Month for May.

We loved issue two of Chutney, with its delicate risograph-printed colours and engaging stories. Would a move to offset printing change its character? Luckily not; this third issue succesfully turns what might have been a negative into a positive and is a step forward for the magazine about culture and identity.

The most popular item on our free shelf at the magCulture Shop is Picpus, an A6 art quarterly that folds out to a single A2 sheet manifesto/poster. ‘We aim to fill in the gaps in art history, tell stories in a clear style about the smaller events that we are less familiar with,’ says founder and co-editor Charles Asprey.