Nuts #2
247 x 340 mm, many, many pages
London & New York
Annual
Editor/Creative director: Richard Turley
Commissioning editors: Bertie Brandes, Bunny Lampert, Natasha Stagg, Liana Satenstein and Biz Sherbet
Deputy editor: Echo Wu
Design director: Julia Schafer
Nuts is the latest publication from Richard Turley and his Food team—including Bertie Brands, last heard of on Mushpit—and nothing to do with the early noughties lads mag.
An anxiety-inducing mass of monochrome pages of image and texts that seems to be a fashion magazine but clearly isn’t a fashion magazine. No big-name snappers, stylists or models, just a bunch of friends imagining how to make a fashion magazine. Think a book-format Civilization in pictures.
This (even chunkier) sophomore issue, titled ‘If You're Awake, I'm Awake’, introduces a single glossy photograph onto the previously bare front cover, with texts by Isabelle Rea and a series of sculpted figurines interspersed across the see-through pages. Deputy editor Echo Wu also makes an appearance, sharing a cinematic kiss with partner Gabriel on the final spread, New York in the backdrop.