Journal tagged by Typography

The launch issue of The Shelf Journal created lots of interest when I featured it here last summer, so it’s exciting to now feature the brand new second issue. Like that first issue, this new one does the subject of...

Andy Cowles looks at the highs and lows of using a hashtag on your front cover. Mario Garcia gets Flipboarding. The PPA is 100 years old this year and will be celebrating by with a Front Cover of the Century...

The upcoming special Food/Fiction issue of IL magazine has this reversible typographic cover – note how the O and C of ‘Fiction’ sit in the O’s of ‘Food’. Design Francesco Franchi. Click image for enlarged version.

A rather fine-looking Monotype special from Eye – check out the type specimens.

Time for a quick round-up of recent arrivals at magCulture, starting with food magazine The Gourmand. Like a number recent food titles (Fire & Knives and Put A Egg On It spring to mind, more here) The Gourmand uses food...

Steven Heller looks back to a time when ‘magazines had balls’. The Little Magazine Coalition is adding members. Underscore’s UCafé magazine library returns to Singapore, open August 1–12. Rob Lowe has a tumblr dedicated to his hand-lettering for Fire &...