Journal tagged by Magazine-y

Diminutive Berlin-based interview mag mono.kultur returns with its 49th edition. As ever, the magazine has been designed and produced to reflect the work of its subject, this time controversial Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. The issue demonstrates how a little bit of creative print production goes a long way.

This subtle new publication from the Pop-Up Magazine team arrives as a beautifully produced print package but also includes great audio. Together, the two elements add up to a fascinating experiment in combining print and digital to share inspirational stories.

I’ve been thinking about magazines and time in relation to an upcoming lecture, and this latest Page 23 highlights one way print interacts with time; it’s also a lovely excuse to revisit the joys of Rubbish FAMzine as we await issue 11 next year.

This new magazine invited 12 contributors to offer a series of single, full-page images that sum up 2021—the first of an annual series to span this decade. It’s a rich visual experience; ‘Frankly, it’s a relief to be spared some of the attempts at explanation demended in other magazines…’

All 5,000 copies of the latest issue of Slanted magazine feature a unique front cover image. The pictures, based on an existing body of work by artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth, are the result of an experiment with machine learning, highlighting the theme of the issue, AI. We hear from Editor-in-chief Lars Harmsen about the process.

We meet the Buffalo Zine team as issue 13 arrives, one of their weirdest but best issues yet: a spiral-bound collection of photo stories using viral memes as the visual theme, alongside several heavyweight essays about the nature of viral content. We invited them to answer our questions using memes.