The beautiful magazines setting out to prove print isn't dead

A new wave of publishers is bucking the digital trend with stylishly printed magazines that are as much a joy to hold as beholdSee a gallery of some of the best-looking new magazinesThe magazine is dead, long live the magazine. It's not so much a resurrection of the magazine in the digital age as an explosion. A visit to any of the larger bookshops – Foyle's in London, or independent shops such as Colours May Vary in Leeds, Material in east London – will reveal an array of beautifully constructed print objects. Magazines such as Article, Kinfolk and the Green Soccer Journal have production, design and editorial philosophies that re-imagine our experience of magazines. Most don't carry advertising, the print runs are too small. Their take on traditional genres is oblique and angular, but always visually seductive – the Gourmand's blender of food, art and ideas, for instance.You might describe them as coffee-table books, except they're not aspirational signs of taste. They're beautiful objects, whose arrangement of content, photography and paper stocks convey a different view of the world. The design and textures are an invitation to be touched, flicked, handled. Most of all, in keeping with our age of Instagram, Pinterest and social network photo sharing, the content is visually driven.Very much like upstart new magazines in previous decades (Sniffin' Glue, the Modern Review, the Idler), these new magazines have emerged partly as personal passion, partly as calling cards... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]

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