Journal tagged by Designers

New exhibition ‘The Face Magazine: Culture Shift’ celebrates the iconic photography from style magazine The Face. To mark its opening, founder Nick Logan and first art director Neville Brody discussed their working relationship and how the magazine influenced a generation. Listen to a recording of their conversation.

Designing magazine covers retains a reputation as an almost mystical practice, so when one hit us as strongly as the latest Eye cover design did, we wanted to dig a bit deeper. We spoke to the magazine’s art director Simon Esterson about the cover design, and the montage approach they’ve used since issue one in 1990.

The death of photographer Oliviero Toscani was announced yesterday. He created many great images, but it’s his role in the launch of Colors that will always endear him to magazine-makers. To mark his passing, we’re publishing a column Jeremy wrote for Creative Review in 2011 as Colors marked its 20th anniversary.

Why should you enter your work to the Society of Publication Designers annual awards programme? We ask the co-chairs of this year’s 60th edition of the awards about their role, their experience of the awards, and why they believe it’s worth having your design work judged by your peers.

London art director Alex Hunting has built a strong reputation for editorial design, with a number of high-profile redesigns and an ongoing role at Kinfolk. He’s just launched his own magazine, Footnotes, ‘A journal for artistic exchange.’ He tells us more about the mag as he shares his working week.

Richard Turley is one of only a handful of people working in magazines today who could be described as advancing the very idea of what a magazine can be. Arjun Basu at the Full Bleed podcast has just interviewed Richard about his work, and we’re excited to present this illustrated transcript of their conversation.