Journal tagged by Page 23

The latest issue of Modern Matter is a physical response to the hacking of the magazine’s Instagram account. Always testing the possibilities of print, founder Olu Odukoya has produced a magazine with its pages ‘shredded’, the content on the verge of being unreadable.

The sudden return of Dirty Furniture—the magazine that examines a different piece of furniture each issue—offers a great example of how to adapt traditional magazine flatplanning to today’s digital context. Page 23 sits in the issue’s Anecdotes section, giving some quick entry points into the magazine.

Our latest Page 23 highlights a beautiful example of how a five-way conversation can be designed to make the reading experience not only functionally efficient but aesthetically pleasing too. It’s from the latest issue of Swiss contemporary music mag Zweikommasieben.

I’ve been thinking about magazines and time in relation to an upcoming lecture, and this latest Page 23 highlights one way print interacts with time; it’s also a lovely excuse to revisit the joys of Rubbish FAMzine as we await issue 11 next year.

This new magazine from London is packed with thought-provoking writing and imagery. So it may seem perverse to focus our attention on a blank page in the issue, our latest Page 23; yet a blank page can be just as important as a busy text-laden page.

New Swiss architecture magazine Superposition arrives wrapped in a gorgeously contrasting red and blue typographic cover announcing the theme, Hardcore Home.
Inside, a series of thoughtful stories about Home are presented in a gentler manner, and our latest Page 23 is typical of that.