Journal tagged by At work with

This week we meet editor/writer David Michon, who launched a newsletter, For Scale, about design and decor, in 2022. He has now added a printed broadsheet to expand the project, explaining ‘I don’t believe For Scale is ‘just’ a Substack, I wanted to show that it was more.’ He explains more as he sahres his working week.

Graphic design magazine Slanted has grown to be a vital part of the design ecosystem, publishing regular editions featuring contemporary work from single cities and countries. Co-founder Lars Harmsen considers the state of graphics today as he reflects on how his mag has developed over the years.

Food mag Chicken + Bread expresses the black experience of food in the UK, and was launched during the pandemic in response to its founder Hope Cunningham’s obsessive reminiscing—that first issue was themed ‘Nostalgia.’ As issue three, ‘Joy,’ is published, Hope tells us more about her maagzine’s origins.

We keep a small selection of free magazines at the entrance to our London shop, and a regular highlight is food magazine Slop. We asked its co-founder Jack Stanley to introduce the magazine and describe how the free model can work financially. He explains this and more as he shares his working week.

Launching a magazine to showcase your typefaces may sound like an excuse for some easy content and over-exhuberent design, but London type foundry Sociotype have managed to produce a serious publication that intelligently displays their type work. Creative director Nic Carter explain more in this week’s interview.

Ex-journalist Tom Rowley opened Backstory in south London a couple of years ago, one of a wave of new, independent bookshops that are opening across the UK. He has now followed that up with a beautiful little magazine of the same name, combining his writing and retail experience to cover both books and bookshops.