Product Description

magCulture explores the very latest trends and creative design styles in contemporary magazines from around the world. Its scope ranges from mass marketed to experimental titles and includes 'Dazed & Confused' (UK), 'Eat' (Japan), 'Sony Style' (US) and 'Domus' (Italy). After Jeremy Leslie’s introductory overview of the state of magazines, five illustrated essays follow all written by prominent figures in the field, focusing on consumer magazines, supplements, independent ‘microzines’ and webzines. The main section is made up of examples of over 100 innovative international magazines, starting with front covers, moving through contents pages and navigation to the features pages. Short interviews, essays and comment pieces focus on key themes such as logo design, Japanese magazines, French fashion magazines and branding.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1344815 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Released on: 2003-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Jeremy Leslie is the Creative Director of John Brown Citrus Publishing and has art directed and designed acclaimed magazines such as Blitz, Time Out, and Hot Air.#160; He is the author of Issues: New Magazine Design, magCulture,#160;and Board: Surf/Skate/Snow Graphics.

Customer Reviews

More Designer Porn
This attractive book falls firmly into the category of what I call "designer porn". Like any number of design books that look to provide an overview of the latest wave in whatever field, it's both mouthwatering and entirely impractical. The six essays that open the book do a decent job of setting the context for what follows and providing an overview of consumer magazines, newspaper magazines, indie mags (mircrozines), corporate/brand magazines, and even web magazines, but the real-world designer is unlikely to find any helpful tips or advice (granted, the book isn't intended to do that to begin with). The 150 or so pages that follow are chockablock with beautifully shot examples of the latest and greatest magazine design from the late '90s and early '00s (almost all the examples are from Western Europe). Organized into sections on overall format, cover design, flow, typography, and photography, these make for great eye candy, and act as a sort of sourcebook for potential inspiration, but that's about it. Overall, it's a nice book, but almost all the examples are of magazines supported by fancy ads or fancy corporations. What would be nice is if someone could put together a similar book based on low-budget magazines. That's something that would transcend the usual designer porn and actually be useful to more of us.

Just ok...
I am a magazine designer always on the lookout for new books addressing the topic. This one was...just ok. Most of the showcase designs are too abstract to really apply in most small publication markets. Not a total waste, but there are far better books on the topic (such as "Suprise Me" or "Magazine Design That Works")

Worth Buying
The title said enough of it. Buy the book and you can learn lot more about editorial design and editorial part. Good luck!