Journal tagged by New magazines

For our first At Work With post of 2023, we meet Myffy Rigby, editor of new Australian food title Swill. Working to the brief, ‘It must be weird, and it must be beautiful,’ she’s fashioned a big, bold, magazine that made an instant impression here at magCulture—that cover! Myffy shares her week and plenty of magazine advice.

November’s Mag of the Month is, for the first time, a brand new launch. Safelight Paper is a collection of analogue images by 11 photographers, a broad range of styles and subjects celebrating the power of film and the darkroom. Built on the reputation of a Berlin analogue photography shop/lab, it asks, who needs Photoshop?

Linseed Journal does everything right: it looks great, feels great, and continually surprises with its erudite and thoughtful content. It’s an example of the magazine as experience, using a single natural object—the humble apple—to explore art, history, science, design and horticulture.

This bold new magazine introduces the young people who have grown up in Ukraine as an independent state, adding a human face to the war in their country. Photographers Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin combine portraits and creative work with on-the-ground reports and links to ways you can help Ukraine.

New launch Epoch is a bold new magazine combining past and present in an attempt to cross-pollinate disciplines and eras. It’s editor-in-chief is Francesca Gavin, an editor, writer and curator whose name has graced multiple magazines across art, creativity and fashion. This is the first magazine she has launched.

You may already know Andrew Diprose’s editorial art direction for The Ride Journal and British Wired. He recently joined the Soho House Group to help them with the digital comms for their private members clubs; no sooner had he joined they announced plans for a bold new magazine launch…