Journal tagged by Illustration

The first question facing our latest Magazine of the Month was, ‘is it a magazine?’ Taking our simplest description of the form—a serial publication—then yes, Left Cultures fits the bill perfectly. Plus it’s built from text and illustration. Read on to find out more, and learn why we selected it this month.

As illustration magazine Wrap returns after a four-year hiatus, co-founder Chris Harrison talks us through five defining elements of the issue. He highlights their desire to take full advantage of the print medium, and explains how they hope to show off illustration work in the best and most appropriate ways.

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.