Journal tagged by Print x Digital

Launched in 2005 as a streetwear blog, Highsnobiety has grown into a global media brand specialising in music, the arts, fashion and culture. Its flagship print magazine reports from the cutting edge of culture. Editor-in-chief Willa Bennett shares her working week as issue 34 of the quarterly appears in shops.

We don’t often feature digital publications, but recent launch Byline caught our attention for the way its monthly, themed structure echoes print. It’s strong writing and vibrant design promises a lot. Cofounder Gutes Guterman, late of New York’s art scene report/parody publication The Drunken Canal, tells us more.

After seven years as a digital platform presenting Tastemakers to an international audience, Semaine recently launched a monthly print newspaper. Co-founder Michelle Lu tells us about her concept of Tastemakers, and where the newspaper fits into the project, as she shares her working week.

The latest issue of Artefact magazine, produced by journalism students at the London College of Printing, is published this week. Every copy will have a unique cover design courtesy of software developed by its designer Oswin Tickler, who tells us more about the project as he shares his week ahead.

All new trends surface in magazines at some point, and right now we’re seeing Artificial Intelligence pop up everywhere. Batshit Times succesfully uses AI technology to reflect and challenge the chaos of the modern world; curiously, in doing so it makes a strong argument for the role of the editor over the algorithm.

CSM graphics graduate Min Kim recently dropped off a sample copy of Playbot, part of her final year project. We were immediately drawn to its AI-driven content, and that punning title. At once serious and comedic, it’s a small but startling starter for the conversation about how humans and technology might coexist together in the future.