Journal tagged by At work with

Former chef and brewer Max Meighen recently sold his Toronto restaurant to focus on Serviette, the food magazine he launched in 2022. With its seventh issue in shops now, Max explains more about the magazine he produces with creative director Nicola Hamilton, owner of Toronto’s Issues magazine shop.

We don’t see many magazines from New Zealand, so we were excited to hear about Folly, an award-winning literary magazine based in Wellington. Founder Emily Makere Broadmore gives us the lowdown on her magazine as issue three hits newsstands and is promptly banned by one of the country’s largest retailers.

As noted here before, we’re seeing more and more brands and companies invest in a magazine to promote their business. US design mag Untapped is another example, published to promote the ethos, rather than work by, design studio Henrybuilt. Editor-in-chief Tiffany Jow explains more as she shares her week.

This month a new, free magazine appeared in the cafés and shops of London. Broadsheet is the first non-Australian edition of a print/digital publishing project already covering city life across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Founder and CEO Nick Shelton explains why they launched in London.

As a photographer shooting with film and enjoying the analogue darkroom, launching a print magazine was perhaps a natural step for Sophie Chen. She tells us more about the mag, which celebrates the many people working behind the scenes in the food and hospitality industry, as issue two appears in shops.

This week we meet NYC-based editor and writer Aliza Abarbanel, who co-founded Cake Zine in 2022. The zine has fast become a staple on our shelves for its literary approach to food. Aliza also contributes to other mags, and is a regular participant in the growing NYC indie scene. She shares her week as issue seven of her zine is published.