Notebook: 5 September 2017 | MAGAZINES
Earlier in the summer I visited the magculture shop in Clerkenwell and came away with a bagful of very attractive magazines and books, and last week, I finally got round to looking at them while away on holiday in Dartmouth. Here’s my pick of some of the best bits:
Row 1: The California Sunday Magazine
Row 2: The Happy Reader
Row 3: Pulp
Row 4: BE: The journal of the built environment
Row 5: Real Review
Row 6: Fleckhaus: Design, Revolte, Regenbogen
Row 7: The Secret of Scent
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- The California Sunday Magazine: Super set of photos and interesting typography for a feature about ‘Dude Ranch… where young men read Plato and tend to cattle’
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- Photos are by Sam Contis.
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- For more on the brilliant California Sunday Magazine, take a look at my post ‘A review of Real Review, The California Sunday Magazine and IL’
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- Penguin’s The Happy Reader mag No.9 has a long form feature on the actress, model and bookseller Lily Cole
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- Detail of sidebar showing the finely crafted typography
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- The second half of Happy Reader looks at Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
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- Three spreads from Pulp magazine No.10. This one is taken from a feature about the Italian graphic designer Leonardo Sonnoli
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- Pulp’s classy and classic design is by Simon Esterson and Holly Catford. This illustration accompanies an article about a Milan design fair and is by Mark Long
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- A profile of designer Rob Lowe (Supermundane)
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- BE: The Journal of the Built Environment Trust. This is a new magazine for anyone who is interested in creating a better environment to live in
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- The cover photo and these two spreads are from a feature highlighting the world’s best environmental photography
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- Design is by Paul Pensom and Leo Field. I love the belly band
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- Issue 4 of the brilliant Real Review mag. The cover illo is by Nishant Choksi
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- Real Review’s bold, black, brutalist ‘R’
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- The design is by OK-RM. More on issue 1 in my post ‘A review of Real Review, The California Sunday Magazine and IL’
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- Willy Fleckhaus is one of the godfathers of magazine design. This book was published to accompany an exhibition of his work at the Villa Stuck in Munich in summer 2017
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- Fleckhaus is famous for his design work for the 1960s German Twen magazine typified by simple, bold typography, striking and often tightly cropped photography and oodles of white space.
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- The book is packed full of great examples of his work including these contents pages from Frankfurter Allgemeine magazine produced in the early 1980s
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- In July I visited the Perfume exhibition at Somerset House which is described as ‘A sensory journey through contemporary scent’. Visitors are actively encouraged to smell ten commercially available niche or ‘indie’ scents at the cutting edge of perfumery.
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- The exhibition and catalogue was designed by London based studio, ‘Julia’ and uses a quirky but very appropriate sans typeface called Prophet from the type foundry Dinamo
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- I picked up this great little book at the exhibition. It’s by the perfumer Luca Turin and is an enjoyable journey into our often neglected sense of smell. The exhibition finishes on 17 September