Journal tagged by Illustration

Flipping through a new issue of Amuseum gives me that same sense of joyful curiosity that I used to feel when getting handed illustrated, explanatory pamphlets at the Natural History museum growing up. For someone who enjoyed trips to places...

Last week we took a close look at the latest issue of Sweden’s BBY magazine, a fantastic and lively publication produced by illustrator Sara Andreasson alongside her close friend and curator Josefine Hardstedt. As we’re also huge fans of Sara’s...

Great things often happen when illustrators start independent magazines, as we’ve seen with Dan Stafford’s fantastically eccentric, highly stylized Amuseum. Sweden’s much-loved Sara Andreasson has also been making magazines alongside her vibrant editorial work: in 2014 she teamed up with...

The English football season may have ended but the Euros kick off in a couple of weeks so there’s little chance of a break for the ever-growing selection of small football magazines. These range from new launch Season, offering a...

The Holborn magazine has been a favourite for many since it’s first issue was released last year. Readers are more often than not charmed by its approach, specifically the way that it imagines itself to be a gastro-pub in East...

For all the recent focus on typography, white space and the new clichés of independent magazines (see this piece by Ruth Jamieson) there remains a strong strand of publications that are almost purely visual – platform magazines. These tend to...