Journal tagged by Before and after

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.

London magazine Terrible People has stealthily built up a dedicated readership for its light-hearted examination of the poor behaviour exhibited by our fellow human beings. Art director Oriane Pawlisiak explains more about the magazine as the seventh issue heads for shops, sporting a bright new redesign.

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.