Journal tagged by At work with

One of our favourite new magazines of 2023 was The Whitney Review of New Writing, a large format mag from NY covering literature and other forms of writing—the recent second issue includes a review of the script of ‘Poor Things’. Founder Whitney Mallett explains more about the roots of her bold magazine.

Photographer Marcus Patrick Brown has just published the fourth issue of Picnic, featuring a new design and larger format. ‘Food is delicious,’ he tells us, ‘but really, it’s the least interesting thing to talk about and photograph.’ Instead, Picnic focuses on the people behind the food—the chefs and restaurateurs.

The first issue of Broccoli was published in 2018, since when founder/editor Anja Charbonneau has added Mushroom People and a series of one-offs to her publications about ‘unusual delights’. She tells us about her working week as the first issue of her latest mag Catnip—‘A Magazine for Cat People’—launches.

Stylist Alice Goddard and designer Theo Sion published 12 issues of their minimalist fashion magazine Hot and Cool between 2010 and 2018. Following a five year hiatus, the magazine returned last year and issue 14 has just arrived. Alice explains her purist approach to the mag as she shares her working week.

Our first At Work With post of 2024 features multi-disciplinary creator Jade Removille. As well as being creative director, publisher and editor-in-chief of her own magazine NR, she’s studied law and spatial design and regularly DJs. She shares her working week and introduces issue 18 of her magazine.

New zine A Pocket Guide to Using Pockets is a beautiful, hand-finished object that is at once simple and complex. Its 32 pages outline 12 rituals around pockets, based on its creator Morag Seaton’s research archive of everyday clothing rituals. Morag tells us more about the zine and its relationship with her clothing design practice.