Tank, Vol. 11, #4
230 x 300 mm, 290 pages (plus travel-themed stickers)
London, UK
Published since 1988
Editor-in-chief: Masoud Golsorkhi
Creative director: Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
Editor: Nell Whittaker
‘Extra. Since 1998.’
As Wikipedia dutifully points out, this publication is ‘not to be confused with Tank, the magazine of the Royal Tank Regiment.’ If it’s contemporary culture, fashion, art, architecture, technology and politics you’re looking for, this would be the version to go for.
Tank has taken many forms and continues to carve a distinctive niche in a crowded genre, with its selective themes and intelligent writing. Typically sticker-friendly, recent issues have been uncharacteristically unstickered (not including the logo, which has indeed been manually stuck on) but with a sheet of stickers ready to be applied.
This is their tenth annual Summer Reader, not a collection of stories, but a close-up look at the world of book publishing. Regular contributor Barbara Epler offers a guide to specialist books (Which good books feature an anaimal?); Cliamx Books’ Isabella Burley shares her favourite books collection; and the question ‘Why does the publishing industry appears so much in rom-coms?’ is finally answered. Plus Matteo Pini explores the strange world of the zine.
On the Journal
At work with Masoud Golsorkhi: ‘I am not sure if we are academically rigorous. We don’t aim to be academic, we mean to approach fashion as a serious topic in and amongst other serious and interesting ideas. I guess the form of address implies a reader of a certain discernment, education and intellectual aspiration.’
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