Journal tagged by Illustration

‘Though I adore music, spend a significant amount of time carefully compiling playlists, and have enthusiastically jumped back into live gigs post(?)-pandemic—I don’t often find myself reading music magazines,’ writes shop manager Danielle Mustarde. An exception is So Young, champion of UK indie/post-punk, and subject of her latest ‘It’s this one thing’ post.

The latest New York cover features this powerful image—by Deborah Roberts—introducing a special package inside the issue marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin. We talk to the magazine’s photo director Jody Quon about the making of the cover.

The arrival of a new print issue of Vestoj, the ‘Journal of Sartorial Matters’, is always a joy, and this latest issue is no exception. Although always busy online, the print edition demonstrates how a well-designed, themed set of stories can deliver for the fashion-obsessed and fashion-wary alike.

Diminutive magazine An Inkling was launched by Ellie Parkes to bridge the arts and science; ‘I think it strange that science writing should be kept in the science journals and art writing in the literature journals—why not bring the two together and enable science and art writers to converse?’

Literary and arts magazine Inque is the most hotly anticipated launch of 2021, the latest project from editor Dan Crowe and Matt Willey, the team behind Zembla and Port. As the first issues arrives with subscribers, we take a look through it and hear from Willey about how he approached the magazine.

Our favourite magazine about magazines is back! New launch Jim is the latest incarnation of Gym Class Magazine, written, edited and designed as ever by Steven Gregor. And this time he’s added his own illustrations— the focus of our review.