Since the Newspaper Project I have been particularly interested in editorial design and have a new found respect for people working in magazine and newspaper design. Its so hard! So I was interested to see designer daily's roundup of top ten well designed magazines.
1. No.ZineNo.Zine is an independent arts zine, released in series and featuring a variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators. Each issue is conceptually centred around it's issue number. Curation, illustration, design and art-direction by Patrick Fry with the help of many great contributors. (issue 1 below)
Wooden Toy Quarterly is possibly the most design-heavy lowbrow art and creative culture publication ever printed. Appealing to art and design fiends alike, The award winning Wooden Toy Quarterly presents creative culture as a lifestyle that cannot be separated from a love of brilliant photography, art, illustration and some of the tightest graphic design you’ve ever seen printed on uncoated paper before.
Newwork Magazine is a large format arts publication of fresh ideas. Designed and published biannually by studio Newwork, each issue features new work from a wide range of artists and creators in the world of fine art, design, high fashion, culture and politics. Among the magazine's special features are bold, custom-designed typefces and a twist on the traditional newspaper format, offering a stimulating juxtaposition of striking design and everyday simplicity. Since pages can be separated, each layout can be hung on the wall as an individual art piece.
4. 8 Faces
8 Faces is a print magazine for devotees of typography and the aim of the magazine is to bring type to the masses. Noting that current publications on the subject are often unnecessarily highbrow and carry an extremely high price tag, Elliot Jay Stocks decided to develop a magazine for the people who love type, but you don’t have to be a real type nerd to enjoy it. The main goal? to encourage learning and passion for typography at all levels.
5. Esquire
A free limited edition newspaper that showcases a graphic designer’s work as well as showing some good magazine design skills.
7. Eight:48
Eight:48 is a newspaper from the online store, Counter-Print. In a tabloid format, each issue focuses on a different theme relevant to the current creative scene. In issue one ten leading designers, illustrators and product designers were asked their opinion on the future of print.
The magazine was forwarded by Steven Heller and contained original articles from Dan Rolfe Johnson and James Pallister from The Architects Journal and Grafik Magazine respectively.
8. Thema
A german magazine with a beautiful, strict composition.
The Gopher Illustrated emerges from the desire to consume hefty, satisfying cultural content that is worth keeping. We envision a cultural publication in which content is associative, obsessive, ludic and endures in time. Instead of covering the current and the immediate – staples of the internet era – we aim for stories, pieces and ideas that take time, are globally local and ultimately timeless.
Ultimately we want to create a magazine that will live in your shelves. A collectible in motion.
10. Filter Magazine
If you like white space in graphic design, you’ll get plenty of it in Filter Magazine
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