Journal tagged by Designers

Newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur is part of the magazine furniture of France; it first appeared (as france Observateur) in 1950 and has been through various identities since, before redesigning (under art director Serge Ricco) and emerging as L’Obs late last...

One of the secrets of strong editorial design is to be forever changing details without making it obvious to the reader. The general feel should remain the same, but otherwise the designer is free to gently adapt the design from...

This week we’re at work with Gym Class’s Steven Gregor, the king of colourful mag cover galore on Instagram and the brains behind everyone’s favourite meta-magazine about magazine-making. We speak with Steven in the wake of the brand new Autumn/Wintour...

Recently at Indiecon, Hamburg’s excellent independent magazine event, I met Dolf Hermannstädter, long-time editor of local music ’zine Trust (he’s worked at the title for 30 years). He offered to post me some copies of his Trust, and I’m happy...

‘we tailored the content accordingly both in terms of format, length and subject matter’ The Pool co-founder Sam Baker on their ‘content bursts’. 24 September, Thurs this week, London: Chris Dixon speaks about his work for Vanity Fair. 29 September,...

What better to follow up Rob’s post about reading foreign-language magazines than a recent publication written in that strangest of European languages, Finnish? During a recent visit to magCulture HQ, Pekka Toivonen of Helsinki’s Kasino Creative Studio – one of...