Journal tagged by Close-up

Our latest Close-up sample comes from fashion reader Viscose. After only two issues the magazine has established itself as a vital platform for fashion criticism, and our sample text offers a typical example of how provocative ideas can be expressed in easily assimilated language.

For the past 40 years Creative Review has maintained a constant coverage of creativity in design and advertising. Our latest Close-up sample comes from the new print issue, themed ‘Belief’, and is from an interview with Scott King about his recently published ‘Debrist Manifesto’.

Our latest Close-up sample comes from the new Kampala issue of Fare, the magazine that introduces the food culture of a different city every issue. It’s from a story about traditional, canteen-style woteli, a subject researched and commissioned from 4,000 miles away in Glasgow.

As the new football season starts, our Close-up post comes from art and football magazine OOF. Writer Louise Benson and artist Emma Cousin, neither of whom enjoy the sport, reminisce about their late mother and grandad respectively and find themselves being pulled towards the game as they exchange memories.

This Close-up excerpt is our first from a brand new magazine. Open Spaces launched recently from New York, and covers land art. In our selected piece, writer Diana Irvine drives cross country to visit one of the seminal examples of the form, Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ in deepest Utah.

Our latest excerpt comes from Noble Rot, the mag that uses flourescent inks, vivid illustrations and a generous pouring of iconoclasm to enliven the tired world of wine publishing. A regular feature is a long lunch with a celebrity, in this case two: artist Grayson Perry and his psychotherapist wife Phillipa.