Untapped #4
178 x 255mm, 72 pages, with cover flap
New York, USA
Triannual, since 2023
Editor: Tiffany Jow
Art director: Yeliz Secerli
This magazine seeks to show how the everyday infrastucture around us might be used to improve the spaces we live in and objects we rely on. It is an editorially independent initiative of US design company Henrybuilt. ‘We believe that the built environment is about more than news and aspirational interiors, or academic philosophising and critique. It is also about something bigger: our lives.’
Issue four comes in a new format, slightly wider but with a cover flap that matches the previous narrower design, and moves the project from annual to three times a year. The theme is Ritual, with articles addressing the joy of patina, the role of cutlery in the ritual of the dinner party, and the conflict of modern dressing, regarded at once as both banal and hugely meaningful (by Viscose Journal’s Jeppe Ulweig.)
Plus legendary food writer Ruth Reichl reflects on five decades of food writing.
On the Journal
At work with Tiffany Jow: ‘The design reflects Untapped’s ethos. Our stories focus on ideas and take the time to unpack them (most stories are around 2,000 words), make sense of them, show how they are relevant for readers. We invest heavily in our writers, and having scant images is a way to tell readers to focus on the text.’
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