Journal tagged by New magazines

Smart new film magazine Monochromator shows how the movies ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ have more in common than generally percieved, and recontextualises them to critique US post-second world war history under the banner ‘The Birth of a Nation’. Editor-in-chief Alex Heeyeon Kil explains more in our weekly post.

As Pride month comes to an end, the fourth and final publication in our WLQM series comes out of Africa—a continent we’d love to see more magazines from. W’ahu, from Accra, Ghana, addresses the West African country’s ‘glamorous and resilient group’, a coded reference to its buoyant LGBTQI+ community.

This week we meet editor/writer David Michon, who launched a newsletter, For Scale, about design and decor, in 2022. He has now added a printed broadsheet to expand the project, explaining ‘I don’t believe For Scale is ‘just’ a Substack, I wanted to show that it was more.’ He explains more as he sahres his working week.

Ex-journalist Tom Rowley opened Backstory in south London a couple of years ago, one of a wave of new, independent bookshops that are opening across the UK. He has now followed that up with a beautiful little magazine of the same name, combining his writing and retail experience to cover both books and bookshops.

Fran Méndez is a designer, art director and lecturer working in London. After over eight years in senior brand consultancy roles, he recently co-founded Hondo Studio with María Vioque Nguyen, and one of their first projects has been Anima, an exciting new magazine covering all aspects of design.

On a mission to bring true Indonesian food to the world, Rahel Stephanie runs London’s sell-out supper club Spoons and has just launched a zine, Pedas. A mix of recipes and musings about Rahel’s Jakarta roots, it has been vividly designed to express the spice of the cuisine. She tells us more as she shares her week ahead.