Port #35
230 x 300 mm, 290 pages (plus supplement)
London
Biannual
First published 2011
Editor-in-chief: Dan Crowe
Design director: Matt Curtis
Port continues to grow into its recent redesign, which sees its static logo replaced with hand drawn versions by each of its six cover stars: Barry Keoghan, Colman Domingo, Andrew Garfield, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sebastian Stan and Mustafa. Usually overlaid as a graphic, this issue begins to embed the handwriting further into the scenography of the cover images, either scrawled on backdrops or, in the case of Andrew Garfield, his palm.
This, the ‘New Forms’ issue, questions creativity and reinvention in the face of ever-growing technological innovation, with traces of AI inside: a piece on ultra-processed food features CGI vegetable still lifes, the customary 10:10 watch supplement leans on generated set designs, while designer Pablo Declan's AI drawing tool illustrates 10 of Margaret Howell's favourite things in Port's design review. Plus, composer Steve Reich in 18 parts, fiction by Vijay Khurna and an essay from Selma Dabbagh.