Journal tagged by New magazines

Luke Tonge is co-director of Birmingham Design and its annual Festival, and this week launches a new magazine to connect the Festival and the many associated projects highlighting creativity in the UK’s West Midlands. We meet him ahead of the magazine launch later this week.

Despite its international reach, basketball is generally seen as a US sport. New launch Overseas seeks to change that impression by highlighting the game in Europe and beyond. Editorial director Andrea Casati shares his week and love for the diversity of the game as issue one hits shops.

What better way to support the children’s literacy initiative from Burberry, Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children’s Books than to produce a beautiful piece of print? Dreamscapes is a one-off limited edition zine from The Face with Burberry that is being distributed free this week.

Hefty new magazine Sociotype Journal is both editorial project and type speciman, but skimps on neither. The text is well-written while showing off the publishers’ typeface Gestura, yet it’s the imagery that catches the eye, uniting the content with a fascinating trail of hand gestures.

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.