Journal tagged by Front covers

I received this tabloid newsprint magazine from Iceland recently. The Reykjavik Grapevine is a local English language publication, and while it isn't that special design-wise I liked this cover technique; the image of local hero Bjork is made up of...

Starting from Pop Cult's then and now comparisons, Scamp blog looks at how magazines have changed their approach to front covers since the fifties, with particular attention to one that has hardly changed at all: The New Yorker. (via DO)

Following on from my previous dig at Wired for an earlier cover, here's a great use of digital technology on it's July issue. In a collaboration with Xerox, 5,000 subscribers received personalised covers featuring their own portraits. A perfect tie...

Picked up this new magazine in Amsterdam recently because I liked the way the cover combines type and image. I haven't seen this logo treatment before. See inside the magazine here.

Montreal-based French-language title Urbania often have interesting covers and this latest issue, their Green issue, is no exception. It's not very clear in this reduced version, but the toilet paper has been perforated into little squares. A clever, if slightly...

Thanks to Horst Moser for sending me a copy of the first issue of new German magazine Beef. Published by the Art Director's Club of Germany, it looks great but as it's all in German I can't assess the content....