Journal tagged by New magazines

New Welsh literature magazine Folding Rock launches this week with a party in Cardiff. Co-founder Robert Harries introduces the magazine as he shares his working week.  Why launch a magazine about Welsh lit now? How important is design to the new project? And what does that name mean? 

Australian interiors magazine Never Too Small is a recent launch that made an immediate impression with its refreshingly unpretentious first issue late last year. As issue two arrives, editor Elizabeth Price tells us more about its origins as a YouTube series and the magazine makers that inspired her, as she shares her working week.

As UK bakery Gail’s launches the first issue of their magazine Companion, we hear from Roy Levy, who runs the company’s Creative Studio. Roy oversaw the magazine’s production. He tells us, ‘While most people are familiar with what we do, we realised that not enough people truly understand who we are or what we stand for.’

London art director Alex Hunting has built a strong reputation for editorial design, with a number of high-profile redesigns and an ongoing role at Kinfolk. He’s just launched his own magazine, Footnotes, ‘A journal for artistic exchange.’ He tells us more about the mag as he shares his working week.

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.