Typophile - Best magazine design - Comments

what kind of book : the now

Ch — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:47:21 -0700

what kind of book : the now ? history ? landmarks ?
my seeing magazine design was sort of triggered by david carson and raygun

http://old.kak.ru/images/archive/8/raygun/

but emigre was sort of a bible...

http://www.emigre.com/EMagView.php

no history would be complete without them.

i enjoyed tibor kalman’s colors for benetton

http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Tibor-Kalman-Issues-1-13/dp/0810904144

these days i like to look at IdN from hong kong. mostly illustration,
maybe i’m more into the content than the design. enjoyably chaotic with rewards.

http://idnworld.com/

rolling stone was delicious when fred woodward was there.

http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1996/?id=326

Where do I start?!

peter_monrad — Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:04:28 -0700

Where do I start?! Interesting topic. First of all, if you’re interested in magazine design and writing a book about it you should definitely check out the following sites:

www.designingmagazines.com/
www.magculture.com/blog/

They are both related to great books and always seem to be updated about what’s going on.

Personally I’m into the quite busy design with lots of details and small elements. For now my favorite magazines are the following:

GQ (American – layout and content - http://men.style.com)
Esquire (American - layout and content (especially the covers!) - www.esquire.com)
Wired (American - layout and content - www.wired.com)
Lodown (German - mostly for the content and concept – www.lodownmagazine.com)

(If anyone would like to see some of my work you can check some spreads right here: www.typophile.com/blog/5558 )

Also, I can’t afford it,

Asvetic — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:27:38 -0700

Also, I can’t afford it, but if I could... eye: http://www.eyemagazine.com/home.php

There was once, around

Asvetic — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:25:48 -0700

There was once, around 1999/2000 I guess, a magazine in the UK named ’level.’

David, I second that. I still have some of my issues somewhere around here. I was also collecting Bikini and Raygun around that time. Both very Carsonesque. I would also recommend Wired, it’s cheap and well designed!

I love: Baseline Magazine ,

Tatumanu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:05:14 -0700

I love:

Baseline Magazine , all about type.
www.baselinemagazine.com

and

Creative Review, mainly about graphic design, photography and ilustration.
www.creativereview.co.uk

Spy Magazine back in the day

pattyfab — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:27:07 -0700

Spy Magazine back in the day was a lot of fun to look at, and it has influenced a lot of current magazines with it’s info-graphic style. There was also briefly Egg.

Let’s not forget Visionaire either.
http://www.visionaireworld.com/index.php

or maybe the best all-time magazine: Flair.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Flair-Dominick-Dunne/dp/084782229X/ref=pd_bbs...

Any particular reason you

Nick Shinn — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:55:27 -0700

Any particular reason you both picked those magazines?

New Scientist: I’m impressed with the way they come up with visuals for topics which are usually quite abstract and difficult to explain, week after week. And lots of charts, maps, and diagrams, for instance, a “cut-away” view of the Large Hadron Collider showing the villages it’s underneath. Even silly stuff, like the biggest overhangs possible with Jenga blocks, is nicely done—and the cartoonist for the letters page is always on the ball.

But most, it’s the endlessly inventive modernist layouts, and Dax heads with lots of white space.

Definitely Metropolis and

Cassie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:42:49 -0700

Definitely Metropolis and Good. How is also very well designed (although it could be that I have a thing for Parisine...) I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned Emigre yet, but that was one worth including. And what about revista tipoGráfica?

Try not to forget Luca

Stefan Seifert — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:20:07 -0700

Try not to forget Luca Stoppini, one of the finest art directors for magazine design.
Experimental (not in the sense of those German new fashion mags) and with brillant taste.
Even though in the last years we saw less of him than possible, I guess.

Good luck for your book
Stefan

I like Cabinet

dsb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:43:07 -0700

I like Cabinet (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/) a lot.

and I am not sure why this one wasn’t mentioned first on this site:

Baseline (http://www.baselinemagazine.com/)

Italian Vogue.

Stefan Seifert — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:26:42 -0700

Italian Vogue.

Some more favs: Graphic

Zennie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:18:50 -0700

Some more favs:

Graphic Magazine
http://www.bispublishers.nl

Adbusters
www.adbusters.org/home/

KIngbrown
www.kingbrownmag.com

American Craft is really

All Beef Paddy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:20:13 -0700

American Craft is really well done. It was just redesigned by the people responsible for Dwell looking so good. For other stuff that is currently on newstands check out ReadyMade, Make, Real Simple and Runner’s World. For magazines that are no more check out Ray Gun and Critique.

I like

Zennie — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:11:43 -0700

I like Grafik

http://www.grafikmagazine.co.uk/

WAD: www.wadmag.com

frode frank — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:27:22 -0700

WAD: www.wadmag.com

Best magazine design

SVR — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:29:07 -0700

HI,
I’m working on a book about magazine design. I’m collecting examples of brilliantly designed magazines from around the world.

May i have your list of magazines. It does not matter what the magazine is about. only the design matters.

Thank you for your help,
Sami