With all the frantic hubbub surrounding the Christmas period, we’ve been a bit remiss in bringing you news about some of the newer and more interesting mag titles appearing on our shelves of late.
So, in an attempt to remedy that fact, here’s a bit of info about two of our new favourites that have popped up in recent weeks…
Founded by Marco Valli (the owner of London’s Magma chain of design bookstores and, we’ve gotta confess, someone that we feel a bit of a kindred spirit with, out here on the coalface of print media…) Elephant magazine is definitely a spectacular new arrival on the mag scene.
Beautifully designed by Matt Willey at Studio8, this issue includes:
Peter Saville on design Vs art, Fernando Gutiérrez on how the greatest things come from two people talking, Universal Everything’s Matt Pyke & Rafael Rozendaal, Spin’s Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy tell us how to start a publishing company and a guide of ‘things to do in Sao Paulo when you are not dead’.
Also new, is Twin magazine from Lula co-founder Becky Smith. Stunningly bound in a hard cover book format, this is definitely not your run-of-the-mill throwaway mag.
Smith says:
I’m a big magazine nut, I’ve collected everything for years…my flat is covered from floor to ceiling with magazines. I thought about what I would want now as a fan. I want to move away from the mass marketed bog standard mag and create something that feels more unique and special. The 250 unique covers were expensive to produce but to have something that no one else has that is hand numbered – hopefully this feels special. It is the personalised touch which is very anti-magazine in a way.
This issue features a revealing interview with Sir Peter Blake (the English artist who did the cover to Sergeant Pepper’s not the Kiwi sailor who was killed by pirates), The Selby shoots the holiday house of New Yorkers Dan Martensen and Shannon Click and there’s a poetry portfolio curated by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and writing by Miranda July.
With all the dreamy imagery that made Lula the cult classic it very justifiably became as well as work from a whole host of new contributors… what’s not to like?
