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British creativity outside the London bubble in Mind the Gap magazine
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"What happens when London prices out every artist?" Lucy Fowler is editor and art director of Mind the Gap, the magazine she made as part of her fashi...
Extra Teeth is redefining Scottish literature
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We want writers to see us publishing work that might not be published elsewhere..." Jules Danskin and Heather Parry are the managing director and edi...
Indiecon 2020 – the socially distanced magazine festival
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s Indiecon festival took place in Hamburg from 5–6 September, bringing people together from all over Europe for a brilliantly defiant (b...
Making sense of coronavirus with Delayed Gratification
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We get to be the seagulls following the trawler..." Rob Orchard is one of the editors behind Delayed Gratification, the quarterly news magazine that ...
Publishing as art in Pfeil magazine
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We thought we'd make a printed exhibition in the format of a magazine..." Anja Dietmann and Max Predinger are two of the people behind Pfeil, the Ham...
A love letter to print (and Portland) in Joon magazine
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bijan Berahimi is the founder and editor of Joon, which he describes as a sort of love letter to Portland. Bijan runs Fisk design studio and gallery i...
Travelling the USA with Fifty Grande
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It's a grind. You have to get out there and do it..." Chris M Walsh is founder and editor of Fifty Grande, the travel magazine that goes deep to unco...
"Illustration therapy" in Aww magazine
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Leung is one of the team behind Aww, the magazine that mixes animals and illustration to create a little bundle of happiness and creativity. Aw...
Ambiguity and Balkan identity in This is Badland
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It has this ambiguous position of being geographically inside but ideologically outside..." Nina Vukelić and Rafaela Kaćunić are the founders and ...
From fuzzy to slick with Feeeels magazine
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We wear all the hats..." Feeeels is one of the most impressive new magazine launches I've seen so far this year. Made by a core team of four graphic ...
Beirut-based Journal Safar is beating the odds
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We keep going. We keep publishing. We keep speaking..." Maya Moumne and Hatem Imam are editors and creative directors of Safar, the visual culture ma...
The Modernist is making the world a better place
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If you were running a successful magazine, why would you write about tripe or bins?" Eddy Rhead is one of the editors of The Modernist, the magazine ...
Exploring the erotic with Extra Extra magazine
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"At the moment it's more difficult to be daring..." Samira Ben Laloua is founder and publisher of Extra Extra, the erotic arts magazine that presents ...
Reporting on Europe in crisis
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Journalism is in crisis and Europe is in crisis..." Kyrill Hartog is editor-in-chief of Are We Europe, the print magazine and digital platform that w...
Analogue freedom in Sofa magazine
28 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You can have way more fun in print..." Ricarda Messner is one of the editors of Sofa, the Berlin-based magazine that dedicates itself to exploring th...
Experimental literature that's actually good
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Somehow all our eclectic tastes combine and we get this glorious mess..." Dzenana Vucic is one of the volunteer editors behind The Lifted Brow, the l...
Soft Punk is "prying sense from our strange present"
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We may not make it, but if we don't we'll go up in flames..." Jacob Barnes is editor-in-chief of Soft Punk, a new literary and arts magazine that’s...
Bridging Britain's divides in Between Borders magazine
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Why can't we talk about identity in a way that brings people together rather than divides us?" Luc Hinson is the editor and co-founder of Between Bor...
Nurturing sustainable fashion in The Lissome
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We take a very deep and holistic view..." Dörte de Jesus is the editor and founder of The Lissome, a sustainable fashion magazine based in Berlin. S...
Publishing for social good in The New Issue
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We believe these stories deserve to be told..." George Wright is the driving force behind The New Issue, a new print magazine published here in the U...
Punk publishing rips up the rules in Rotten magazine
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Obviously it was just me in my bedroom..." Joel Seawright is the man behind Rotten, an extraordinary magazine that reveals and comments on the proces...
Able Zine is smashing disability stereotypes
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There are lots of horrible assumptions and stereotypes around disability and I just wanted to smash them all to pieces..." Claudia Walder is the edit...
A more accessible view of art in Swim magazine
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We're just a big group of friends who make a magazine together..." Daniel Milroy Maher is the editor of Swim, the art and photography magazine that t...
Art and environmentalism in Where the Leaves Fall
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I've never found anything interesting to read about soil..." David Reeve and Luciane Pisani are the editors and art director of Where the Leaves Fall...
Primary Paper's impulsive approach to photography
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We wanted to do something that was ours..." Jessica McGowan and Coco Cassibba are the art director and fashion director of photography magazine Prima...
A more united Europe in 34minus1 magazine
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Published by a group of British students studying overseas on the Erasmus programme, 34minus1 is a showcase of creative projects made by fellow Erasmu...
Mal Journal's literary sexuality
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We don't ever do controversy for the sake of it..." Maria Dimitrova is the editor of Mal, the journal of sexuality and erotics that was started in 20...
Ecology, culture and spirituality in Emergence Magazine
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The web is ephemeral – a server goes down and you're gone..." Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is a filmmaker and the executive editor of Emergence Magazine, ...
Fukt magazine's award-winning cover design
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The cover is the playground for design..." Ariane Spanier is the designer of Fukt, the magazine for contemporary drawing. She makes it it along with ...
Conservation meets beauty in Bumble magazine
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We're not National Geographic..." Josef Shaw is editor and designer of Bumble, the magazine that raises awareness of the plant and animal species tha...
Record Culture magazine lauds vinyl in print
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I see the appeal in holding something..." Karl Henkell is editor-in-chief of Record Culture, the magazine that visits vinyl lovers in their homes and...
Unseen Singapore in Meantime magazine
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"These are the stories you won't find in Singapore's mainstream narrative..." Pang Xue Qiang is one of the founders of Meantime, the magazine that exp...
Global African creativity in Nataal magazine
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not looking outward for approval..." Helen Jennings is editor of Nataal, the magazine of global African creativity. Launched online in 2015, the...
Pickles and humanity in Club Sandwich magazine
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"People actually read magazines!" Anna Broujean is the editor and art director of Club Sandwich, the Paris-based title that uses food as an absurd and...
Good Sport magazine takes a new direction
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Sometimes it just needs to be big..." Ben Clement is the founder of Good Sport, the magazine that launched out of Melbourne in 2014, fusing sport wit...
Cult music magazine Wax Poetics returns to the newsstand
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's for the people who love dusty record shops..." David Holt is one half of the joint venture that is bringing cult music magazine Wax Poetics back...
Photo zines get weird
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We love pregnant men!” The first Temple Arles book fair was held in the South of France last week, and we were there selling some of our favourit...
Weakness and strength in Where is the Cool? magazine
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“From weakness you make something strong...” Laurent Laporte is editor and founder of Where is the Cool?, the French magazine that presents reader...
Ray Gun's radical and influential magazine making
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Magazines were magical to me – they transported me to somewhere else..." Marvin Scott Jarrett launched Ray Gun in 1992, working with the designer D...
Reclaiming satire in The Fence magazine
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Satire is an interesting weapon, but it's been co-opted by the establishment." Freddie Marsh is one of the editors of The Fence, the satirical magazi...
Stoicism and celebrity in The Happy Reader
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You're constantly trying to break it..." Seb Emina is the editor of The Happy Reader, the literary magazine made for Penguin Books by the publishers ...
Inside the ambitious growth of gal-dem 2.0
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We have money all of a sudden!" Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is the editor of gal-dem, the magazine made by women of colour and non-binary people of colou...
Big ideas behind the International Magazine Centre
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's world peace for publishers..." Nikki Simpson is the woman behind the International Magazine Centre, a proposed hub for publishers and anyone who...
Femme Type: women who work in type design and typography
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I want to inspire more women to have a career in type..." Amber Weaver is the author of Femme Type, an all-female publication about type design and t...
Films and feelings in Dear Movies zine
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I want it to feel like you're having a chat with a friend." Maria Ilana Moore is editor of Dear Movies, the zine that collects personal writing about...
Fighting for freedom in Index on Censorship
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Some countries just feel the world should not be watching..." Rachael Jolley is the editor of Index on Censorship, the 47-year-old title dedicated to...
Reading cities with Desired Landscapes magazine
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"A city is a text for us..." Natassa Pappa is the editor and creative director of Desired Landscapes, a magazine that looks deeply into cities to disc...
Literary science fiction in Visions magazine
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You begin by believing you can do it..." Mathieu Triay is the editor of Visions magazine, a literary science fiction title that publishes a wide rang...
Creativity and community in the South London Review of Hand Dryers
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a weird, very British, eccentric attachment to hand dryers..." Wedgely Snipes (not his real name) is the editor of the South London Review o...
Imagining the future with Weapons of Reason magazine
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I don't know if we ever really thought we'd finish at eight issues..." Each issue of Weapons of Reason focuses on a major global challenge, like the ...
Sixty years of revolutionary magazine covers
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"They defied taboos, they attacked conventions... they caught a moment in time." Ian Birch is the author of Uncovered: Revolutionary Magazine Covers, ...
Art and architecture meet on the pages of Too Much magazine
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Design cannot make a boring magazine interesting..." Audrey Fondecave is one of the editors of Too Much, the Japanese magazine that mixes art and arc...
Horror through a feminine lens in Suspira magazine
16 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm not going to kill your kids at night..." Valentina Egoavil Medina is the editor and creative director of Suspira, the magazine that views horror ...
Social justice (and no bosses) at New Internationalist
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"There are no bosses..." New Internationalist launched in 1973 to highlight the global inequalities that emerged as countries across the global south ...
Accidents and alchemy creating The Gentlewoman's covers
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not entirely a surprise, but it's a delightful provocation..." Penny Martin is the editor of The Gentlewoman, the phenomenally successful magazi...
Hot Potato uses fashion photography to help explain the news
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's Donald Trump and Vivienne Westwood in the same image..." Naoise O'Keeffe is editor-in-chief of Hot Potato, an "alternative newspaper" that uses ...
An addiction to publishing in Gym Class magazine
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's totally out of my comfort zone, but I'm 100% okay with that..." Steven Gregor is the editor and publisher of Gym Class, the magazine that has ev...
Art, literature and the pursuit of perfection in Still magazine
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Let's just stay up until four in the morning..." Marc Holzenbecher is the publisher and executive editor of Still, the brilliantly eclectic arts and ...
Homesick magazine presents the pictures you won't find on the web
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It feels like you can find everything on the internet, but that's just not true." Reagan Clare is the founder of Homesick magazine, the title that de...
How to make an independent magazine
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Don't do everything yourself – that's mad..." Recorded live at The Book Club in London on Tuesday 22 January, this extra-long episode focuses on so...
Sex, art and 100% commitment in Matto magazine
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We wanted to break something..." Dominika Hadelova and Aldo Buscalferri are the editors and creative directors of Matto, a new magazine based in Pari...
Literary redemption in Somesuch Stories
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's like a little chameleon..." Suze Olbrich is the editor of Somesuch Stories, the literary magazine that covers a vast range of subjects including...
The art and craft of video games in A Profound Waste of Time
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You don't need to be into video games. You just need to like pretty words and pictures..." Caspian Whistler is creative director and editor-in-chief ...
Have a merry Christmas with Hacking Finance
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The word 'finance' made me want to run a mile." Elana Schlenker and Mark Pernice are the art directors of Hacking Finance, a new magazine that takes ...
A feast of editorial design in Eye magazine
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We approach special issues with trepidation..." John L Walters and Simon Esterson are the editor and art director of Eye magazine, the international ...
How Brasilia is setting the bar for student magazines
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"My degree suffered a little..." Arne Meyer was one of the editors and art directors on the current issue of Brasilia, the magazine made by students a...
Inside Anxy – the award-winning mental health magazine
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Magazines tell the story of what's going on right now." Bobbie Johnson is the editor of Anxy, the California-based magazine that aims to break down t...
All the winners at the Stack Awards 2018
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at The Queen of Hoxton in London on Monday 19 November, this week's episode features all the winners and commended magazines from the St...
Younger, fresher, made by women: behind the scenes at Eye on Design
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It just became this thing we couldn't shake..." Perrin Drumm is the founder and director of Eye on Design, the initiative launched by AIGA in 2014 as...
Art, folklore and 'the deeper magic' in Elementum journal
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"You can't deny there's something bigger than us out there..." Jay Armstrong is the editor and creative director of Elementum, a beautiful biannual jo...
Cycling and community on the pages of The Domestique
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It's a totally fresh look at cycling..." Josh Page started The Domestique as a blog where he and his friends could post their stories about cycling. ...
Riding the coffee wave with Caffeine magazine
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"People want their little treat, even when times are hard..." Scott Bentley loves coffee. A magazine designer for big brands like Men's Health, Arena ...
Making music magazines, with Beat, The Move, Straight No Chaser and Cool Brother
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Music is a springboard for everything else..." Recorded live at The Book Club in London on Tuesday 25 September 2018, this episode is a panel discuss...
Strong Words takes an unpretentious look at books
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The London Review of Books can be quite a daunting experience." Ed Needham loves books. And he also knows a thing or two about making magazines; he w...
Art, dogs, and the beauty of surprise in Four & Sons magazine
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We have the dog as our muse." Marta Roca is the editor and creative director of Four & Sons, the magazine that mixes art, culture and lifestyle with ...
Talking magazines with magCulture founder Jeremy Leslie
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We're celebrating the art and culture of magazines." Jeremy Leslie has been at the heart of London's magazine world since he launched his magCulture ...
Art and protest meet on the pages of Good Trouble magazine
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Trump was like a bomb going off..." Good Trouble is the great big newsprint magazine we delivered to Stack subscribers this month, published out of N...
Travelling across cultures with Lindsay magazine
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Heritage is such an important part of place." Lindsay magazine launched earlier this year with a collection of idiosyncratic and absorbing stories fr...
100 years of British independent magazines with Paul Gorman
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We plug into a deep history of pamphleteering, troublemaking and piss taking..." Paul Gorman is co-curator of Print! Tearing It Up, the independent m...
NXS magazine wants to provoke a response from its readers
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It's important to have a little disturbance." NXS is probably the strangest magazine we've ever sent out on Stack – a brilliantly adventurous avant...
How to launch an independent magazine – top tips from a new book
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"People will give you a million hearts on Instagram, but they might not buy your magazine..." Conor Purcell has been making magazines for a long time....
Tapping into the future of business with Courier magazine
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I couldn't give a shit what the medium is." Jeff Taylor is the founder of Courier, the London-based magazine dedicated to covering startup culture. B...
What is beauty? A panel discussion with Beauty Papers, Staple and Ladybeard
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Independent magazines are renowned for their loveliness: the thick paper, gorgeous photography and enticing design are all there to make you want to b...
Art and football unite in OOF magazine
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"If art is about football it's really boring." Eddy Frankel is the editor and founder of OOF, the self-proclaimed 'art and football magazine'. But as ...
Understanding Isis: Magnum Photos dives into the archives to produce a fresh view of Isis
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"There's still a desire for long-form photo essays." Francesca Sears is Director of Special Projects at Magnum Photos, and in this episode she explain...
Designing the future of food: Mold magazine subverts the traditions of food publishing
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The only thing for sale in this magazine is our ideas." Everyone knows that food magazines are supposed to be full of delicious recipes and gorgeous ...
Looking at war: Contra Journal explores visual culture and conflict
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Everyone has an opinion on this..." Exploring conflict and visual culture, Contra Journal wants readers to think again about the images they see ever...
Travel and "holiness" in Cartography magazine
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We like to go beyond the landscapes we visit." Cartography is a beautiful, photo-led travel magazine that documents not only the people and places it...
Episode 66: Flaneur magazine
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The process comes first and the results later." Flaneur magazine is the experimental, reflexive magazine that builds each issue around a single stree...
Episode 65: Slightly Foxed magazine
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"You come for a week and you never leave..." Slightly Foxed is the literary magazine that launched 15 years ago when three friends decided to take a s...
Episode 64: Tbilisi – Archive of Transition
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Making a magazine is the best way to get to know a country." Froh! is a magazine and media NGO based in Cologne, and they've built a reputation for t...
Episode 63: Andrew Diprose, Wired
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I just can't think of anyone else who could do this job better than I could!" Andrew Diprose is group creative director of Wired in the UK, and in th...
Episode 62: Megan Conery, hotdog magazine
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Let's just make a poetry magazine – how hard can that be?" Megan Conery and Molly Taylor launched their poetry magazine hotdog in 2015, and quickly...
Episode 61: Andrew Foxall, The Party Next Door
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Magazines can be more than just pieces of paper." The Party Next Door is an attempt to push beyond the established definition of what constitutes a m...
Episode 60: Liz Schaffer, Lodestars Anthology
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The one thing I knew is I didn't want to be an editor." Liz Schaffer is the editor of Lodestars Anthology, the travel magazine that trades in escapis...
Episode 59: Nick Loaring and Pat Randle, Double Dagger magazine
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"People think letterpress is supposed to look knackered... We don't do that." Nick Loaring and Pat Randle are the editors, designers, publishers and p...
Stack Live: Can independent magazines make a difference?
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Independent magazines with a social or ideological mission are hugely popular at the moment, but can they really affect change in the world? Recorded ...
Episode 58: Mark Kiessling, Do You Read Me?!
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It started out of a need – there was no place for magazines in Berlin." Mark Kiessling and Jessica Reitz opened their magazine shop Do You Read Me?...
Episode 57: James Roberts, Vanguards magazine
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"To see your little magazine poking out on the shelves is an amazing feeling." James Roberts and his friend Hugo Ross launched Vanguards magazine toge...
Episode 56: James Guerin, Berlin Quarterly
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I have an urge to make things that stay in the world." James Guerin is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Berlin Quarterly, the literary a...