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Record Culture returns! After a four year hiatus, the magazine offering a close-up look at niche music and its relationship with art, fashion and culture is back with issue eleven. Founder/editor Karl Henkell reminds us what we’ve been missing as he reintroduces the magazine and explains what he’s been up to.

This week, The Observer magazine, one of Britain’s oldest newspaper magazines was relaunched as O magazine and given a new look. The redesign was led by design consulatant Mark Leeds, who tells us about the process of developing a new look for a weekly slongside the in-house design team.

This week we meet Ashley Yun, co-founder of Toothsome, the London magazine about food and conviviality. As issue two arrives in shops, she talks about the magazines that have inspired her, what makes her magazine different to other food titles, and what she and co-founder DK Woon learned from their first issue.

The world of New York restaurants is a well-covered subject, but recent launch Waiting… takes a new angle on the subject. The magazine focuses on the way many restaurant wait staff combine that work with creative ambitions as artists. Co-founder Elliott Rosenberg tells us more as issue three is published.

One of the founders of tennis title Racquet, David Shaftel left that magazine in 2023 and launched digital platform The Seconds Serve and print mag Open Tennis. The new magazine is a large-format title (think Victory Journal) mixing fashion, art and psychology with equipment deep cuts. 

This week we meet Kosuke Ide, founder of beautiful Japanese magazine Subsequence, as issue eight appears in shops. Its expansive, matt pages feel like an oversized notebook, recording things that, Kosuke tells us, ‘we personally find deeply important, but that many people tend to overlook.’