Tank, Vol. 11, #3
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
‘Commonist. 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).
For Spring 2025, this issue is themed Beyond Community—‘what do we mean by a term that is used so readily by left and right, marketeer and activist alike?’ Striking a slightly surreal tone, with a dispatch from the transphobia-laced LGB Conference, a timeline of branding's identity crisis, an illustrated history of the band and more, opening with Massoud Golsorkhi's takedown of Trump's mob-style second term and his troupe of bro-ligarchs.
On the Journal:
‘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.’ – Masoud Golsorkhi Read more