Journal tagged by New magazines

The last couple of years has brought a series of indie magazines our way from Africa, so we’re excited to hear this week from Anita Dafeta in Nigeria, who has just published the first issue of Origho Journal, featuring seven creative projects spanning the mediums of film, painting, and photography.

This month a new, free magazine appeared in the cafés and shops of London. Broadsheet is the first non-Australian edition of a print/digital publishing project already covering city life across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Founder and CEO Nick Shelton explains why they launched in London.

New magazine No Way Back delivers a brilliant punch of eighties London and New York pop culture, reproducing contemporary writing from magazines such as Sounds, Ritz and Village Voice alongside photography of the actual printed pages and a series of photo archives. Co-founder Andy Crysell explains more as he shares his week.

Vanguard Union Press is an exciting new magazine that features a ‘visual interview’ with one artist every issue. Olivia Wunsche interviews and photographs the subject, the results being presented in a format that unfolds into a series of posters. ‘The idea was to give the object a longer life,’ she explains as she shares her week.

Our Close-up strand, where we share an excerpt from a new issue or publication, is back! Scott King’s latest project, The New Space, portrays a lone art worker’s campaign against the entire culture industry (AKA ‘Space Control’) armed only with social media. Funny and tragic, anyone involved in culture will feel a familiar pang…

Elastic, a new magazine of psychedelic art and literature, has made an immediate impact with its bold intentions and brilliant design. Founder/editor Hillary Brenhouse tells us more about the magazine, and how it arrives at a time of disclocation and crisis, similar to the context of the original sixties psychedelic era.