Journal tagged by New magazines

Literary and arts magazine Inque is the most hotly anticipated launch of 2021, the latest project from editor Dan Crowe and Matt Willey, the team behind Zembla and Port. As the first issues arrives with subscribers, we take a look through it and hear from Willey about how he approached the magazine.

Our favourite magazine about magazines is back! New launch Jim is the latest incarnation of Gym Class Magazine, written, edited and designed as ever by Steven Gregor. And this time he’s added his own illustrations— the focus of our review.

With magCulture Live, London focusing on indies old and new later this week, we thought we’d make a little more space here to celebrate more of the bold new independents that have sprung to life during the last 18 months.

This subtle new publication from the Pop-Up Magazine team arrives as a beautifully produced print package but also includes great audio. Together, the two elements add up to a fascinating experiment in combining print and digital to share inspirational stories.

This week we head to Hong Kong to hear from Kenny X Li, who has just published the first issue of YeP YeP, an image-only magazine showcasing the city’s creative community and challenging our expectations of life under the political turmoil there over the last two years.

We start the week with Audrey Rose Smith and Vicente Muñoz, founders of new magazine balcony. Its refreshing view of the art world ignores the usual work-fixated narratives of art publishing in favour of conversations with artists about their lives and practice. They share their hopes for the magazine and their week ahead.