Journal tagged by Before and after

We’ve seen magazines experiment with their logo from issue to issue, but Port’s new approach to the typography of its name is unique. Each issue features up to eight different cover stars, and each person handwrites the magazine’s name. We spoke to art director Matt Curtis about how the covers are working.

Erotic Review has just been relaunched by editor Lucy Roeder as a journal exploring desire. The new magazine has a unique and subtle typographic identity by Studio Frith, helping it look forward rather than back. We spoke to Frith Kerr about the development of the identity and the language of desire.

The ever-evolving Fantastic Man is back with a new format, look and direction that creative director Jop van Bennekom describes as ‘subtle and indeed drastic at the same time.’ Take a look through the pages of the new issue with its new logo, more fashion, and a smart new (single) typeface throughout.

As magCulture Live New York 2023 nears, we meet John Sunyer, Editor of Courier, who will be presenting the recent complete relaunch of the magazine. He and Photo editor Anna Jay will be discussing how the magazine has completely reinvented its format while retaining the core idea of telling stories of modern business.

This week, the UK Crafts Councils’s Crafts magazine relaunches as a biannual, with a fresh new design and improved paper stock. Editor Debika Ray explains the thinking behind the shift in strategy, and the magazine’s new role as the centre of a membership scheme, as she looks ahead at her week.

The sudden return of Dirty Furniture—the magazine that examines a different piece of furniture each issue—offers a great example of how to adapt traditional magazine flatplanning to today’s digital context. Page 23 sits in the issue’s Anecdotes section, giving some quick entry points into the magazine.