Journal tagged by Designers

The latest issue of New York fashion/art/culture title Noisé brings together nineties uber art director Fabien Baron (Vogue Italia, Interview, Harper’s Bazaar) and Alastair McKimm, until recently editor-in-chief of i-D, to discuss magazines today. Our latest Close-up extract features some of their thoughts on our favourite subject.

Our Close-up strand, where we share an excerpt from a new issue or publication, is back! Scott King’s latest project, The New Space, portrays a lone art worker’s campaign against the entire culture industry (AKA ‘Space Control’) armed only with social media. Funny and tragic, anyone involved in culture will feel a familiar pang…

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.