Journal tagged by Illustration

The annual international edition of ZEITmagazin is always a great reminder of what we English-speakers miss in the weekly German edition: in short, great commissiong across wrod and image. Here’s a quick look at some visual highlights from this year’s issue.

 

Artist Savage Pencil made his name in the 1980s at Sounds magazine with his much-loved comic strip ‘Rock n Roll Zoo’. He has continued to contribute his distinctive angular line drawings to magazines and record labels ever since, and we meet him as his latest project, a guest edited issue of Ambit Pop, is released.

Smart new launch Decisive Agents takes an inclusive, human view of AI, using figurative illustration to avoid the clichés of so much tech publishing. Art director Angus MacPherson developed his editorial voice at Little White Lies, and discusses his approach to the new magazine as he shares his working week.

‘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.