Journal tagged by Magazine-y

Our latest Page 23 is a reminder how a magazine can celebrate the physical nature of its production. The new, eighth, issue of SU weed mag Gossamer is themed ‘Space’, and fearures a 13mm hole drilled through the centre of the entire issue. Co-founder Verena von Pfetten explains…

The European Review of Books is an impressive, new 254-page magazine of culture and ideas published from Amsterdam. One of its founders, Sander Pleij, discusses the concept for the new launch and explains its uncut pages as he looks ahead at his working week.

Jemma Foster is the founder and creative director of Wild Alchemy Lab, a multi-sensory publishing platform specialising in the intersection of nature, science and esoterica. Amongst their outputs is the flambouyantly designed Wild Alchemy Journal, issue three of which has just been published.

Marvin Scott Jarrett made his name with a series of ground-breaking magazines in the nineties, including RayGun and Nylon, before moving into TV and film. During the Covid lockdown he made a surprise return to print with a bold new music magazine, Marvin. We meet him as issue six of this large-format unbound magazine hits shops.

March’s Magazine of the Month is the new issue of Fukt, another sketchbook-like collection of images enhanced this time by the very specific theme, Faces. This tightly specific subject makes for a rich selection of drawings and stories, while the cover concept hints at the long links between faces and magazines.

Paris is currently the source of some really exciting magazines, one of which is graphic design journal Revue Faire. We meet its designer/publishers François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold, who launched the journal with the idea to address one topic every 15 days across the university year.