Journal tagged by Magazines

This is a quick report on the talk I gave at an event as part of London Design Festival last week. I spoke about making magazines, then Max Gadney, Head of Design & Audience Insight at BBC News Online, spoke...

The Den Grafiske Hojskole (Danish Institute of Graphic Arts) in Copenhagen have announced the line up of their 2006 Magazine Design Conference. This day-long event takes place on October 31 and features talks by US-based designers Dirk Barnett (various titles)...

Latest news from Colophon2007 has just been posted on the website, including the first name speaker, Samir Husni aka Mr Magazine.

Design Observer has a tribute piece to US politician Ann Richards that raises a couple of magazine-related issues. Written by Pentagram partner DJ Stout, the piece tells the story of a front cover he designed for Texas Monthly featuring the...

The Observer had another couple of magazines in its features pages this week. As part of a feature 'The best-kept arts secrets in Britain', artist David Shrigley chooses Karen magazine and singer Kate Jackson chooses Sheffield fanzine Go. I've written...

Two UK magazines have appeared in the features pages of newspapers recently. First up, a rare piece on magazine design, or more specifically typography, in The Observer discusses the redesign of Blueprint magazine. And second, news that fashion title Pop...