Journal tagged by Designers

Time’s Emily Crawford chooses Adbusters, because ‘the magazine essentially jump-started the Occupy Wall Street movement, which to me is proof of how powerful and relevant magazines still are’. See her full thoughts on the SPD site. Read how Adbusters founder...

I found this hand lettering by Friends of Type for city mag Seattle Met really satisfying; it’s hard to make handstrokes look spontaneous and deliberate. Design André Mora.

Exciting news from Berlin. 032c editor-design team Joerg Koch and Mike Meiré are the launch team for the German edition of Interview, coming next year. Stack interviews Vince from Huck magazine. SPD’s series of favourite magazines continues; after we co-chairs...

Brain Pickings looks back at sixties magazine Fact, designed by Herb Lubalin. Typographic covers notable for their content as much as their design. Google experiments with survey-walls instead of pay-walls to access content. Condé Nast website Style.com launches its print...

Private Eye has an art director! Eye interviews Tony Rushton, who reveals Matthew Carter drew the magazine’s logo… …and CRBlog reviews the Private Eye anniversary show at the V&A. Not content with launching its own radio station, Monocle reveals a...

Redesign redux: flick through some mags, fly to NY, stay at the Ace, meet with Luke Hayman and team at Pentagram, come home and complete the issue. A bit short on design detail, but a sweet video from Dutch interiors...