Journal tagged by Magazines

A sombre final set of covers demonstrate the current affairs role magazines can still have in this 24/7 news access world. First, Time marks the week of 9/11 with a stark image of the twin towers before they collapsed. Every...

The latest issue of illustration magazine Varoom has been out a few weeks now. It includes an overview by Steven Heller of young American illustrators including some great work by Tamara Shopsin. The highlight for me, though, is an update...

This time, three simple, graphic covers. David King is one of the great but relatively unacknowledged UK editorial designers. Developing his talent alongside Michael Rand at The Sunday Times during the late sixties, his interest in Russian constructivism art and...

We take it for granted that any major city will be well stocked with the world’s magazines. In fact the relationships that provide this distribution can be tightly balanced and easily broken. Jean Snow reports on the failure of Japan’s...

Andrew Beswick has posted his collection of late sixties Fab208 magazines here.

Corner College in Zurich is holding a series of events about independent magazines over the next week. ‘Temporary Bookshop’ opens this Saturday with editor Olu Michael Odukoya revealing the latest issue of his Kilimanjaro magazine. Later events feature Dot Dot...