Long Live Magazines!

To console myself after missing, due to ‘work commitments’, the excellent ‘Magazines are dead! Long live the Magazine!’ event at St Brides (reports of which are still filtering through) [stbride.org], I had a rummage through some of my fave bookstores and came across a couple of ace new titles on magazine design and magazine designers.

The 10 Influential Creators for Magazine Design [piebooks.com]
‘The 10 Influential Creators for Magazine Design’ is a type of follow up to the less successful ‘The Secret Sense of Japanese Magazine Design’, this time ticking all the right boxes in presenting a snap shot of the current state of contemporary magazine design. The actual editorial is fairly light, and possibly too polite in places, but with this you also get a visual insight into the workplaces these creatives inhabit and lush double page spreads of flooded with photographed examples. Creatives featured include MM Paris [mmparis.com], Christophe Brunnquell [purple.fr] and Kazunari Hattori [ryukotsushin.jp].

Cover Image: Interviews with Magazine Designers
Cover Image is ace because it’s cheap and has exclusive interviews with a wide range of magazine creatives chatting about all sorts of magazine related issues. Interviewees include Jop Van Bennekom [re-magazine.com], Matt Willey [studio8design.co.uk] and Yorgo Tloupas [intersectionmagazine.com]. The design is a little overbearing in places, but being that this publication is so solid editorially and has been put together by such a young and enthusiastic editorial team, these distractions are easy to overlook. Some more images of actual magazine design would have help this publication a lot though.