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Anyone who thinks design students aren’t interested in magazine design need only look at ‘Cover Image’, a recent book by a group of graduates from Southampton Solent University. The team interviewed 19 magazine designers, including Tony Chambers (Wallpaper*), Alexander Isley...

The blog has been around for a while, but now here’s the book: Jandos Rothstein’s ‘Designing Magazines’ has just been published. It’s a very good book – tons of information about the subject that goes beyond the usual quick advice....

The 42nd SPD Publication Design Annual is out now. If you like the mainstream typographic perfection of New York magazine design this is the book for you. Lots of stunning work from the New York Times Style Magazine, New York,...

The Princeton Architectural Press have just published 'Making Magazines', a transcription of the 'Fresh Dialogues – Making Magazines' event held last June in New York. The editors of independent magazines Bidoun, Esopus and Topic discuss the origins of their publications...

With just 36 days to go before it launches, Colophon2007 is fast approaching. Book your tickets here. Meanwhile, here's a first glimpse of the book 'We Love Magazines', being published to coincide with Colophon2007. Doing so breaks my unwritten rule...

Some new/newish books about magazines for your Amazon wishlist to Santa: 100 Years of Magazine Covers is a big, fat but rather confused book. In fact it feels like two books shoe-horned together. The text by Steve Taylor (editor of...