Journal tagged by Page 23

Our Page 23 strand uses the randomly selected 23rd page of a magazine to highlight an attribute or factor in magazine-making. It returns after a break with the latest edition of Dutch gardening magazine Pleasant Place; their third issue—themed Compost—features a heavier paper stock in its centre pages.

Our latest Page 23 is a reminder how a magazine can celebrate the physical nature of its production. The new, eighth, issue of SU weed mag Gossamer is themed ‘Space’, and fearures a 13mm hole drilled through the centre of the entire issue. Co-founder Verena von Pfetten explains…

Page 23 of beautifully crafted videogames mag A Profound Waste of Time is the perfect example of how a print publication can reflect its subject. The simple illustration offers space and pace—a common theme of our Page 23 posts—but also acts as a context for a printed easter egg, a letter insert cleverly translating the screen experience to print.

Our latest Page 23 sits inside the eleventh issue of The Fence, an unlikely indie champion of scurrilous political and cultural London gossip. Notable for its black and red colour scheme and bold use of cartoons, the magazine has a deceptively simple identity that masks something more intriguing and deliberate.

If a magazine has a longstanding archive it should flaunt it! Our latest Page 23 post features the current issue of Interview, and its tribute to US fashion maven André Leon Talley. The page reproduces a layout from their August 1976 issue featuring ‘the most talked about new social diarist of 1976.’

We don’t see many magazines about science, so when one as well-produced as Grow turns up it deserves some attention. We take a closer look via page 23 of issue three, highlighting how it challenges expectations without breaking the magazine’s core functionality.