Stack Magazines
Episodes
Episode 55: Marco Velardi, Apartamento magazine
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"How can you change without changing?" Marco Velardi is editor-in-chief of Apartamento, the iconic interiors magazine that is currently celebrating it...
Episode 54: Thomas Sumner, The Essential Journal
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"It was three of us in a white van." Thomas Sumner is the creative director of The Essential Journal, the men's fashion and lifestyle title based in L...
Episode 53: Christoph Amend, Zeit Magazin
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm always waiting for the surprise." Christoph Amend is the editor-in-chief of Germany's Zeit Magazin, the magazine distributed with news weekly Die...
Stack Awards 2017
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hear all the judges' comments and winners' acceptance speeches from this year's Stack Awards, recorded live at The Queen of Hoxton on Monday 20 Novemb...
Episode 52: Petricā and Laura, Kajet journal
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Eastern Europe deserves a means of expression." Kajet is a new journal published from Bucharest and dedicated to telling unheard stories from across ...
Episode 51: Ruth Jamieson and Angharad Lewis
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"I think we needed this period of very beautiful and luxurious magazines to prove that print was of worth... but now we're moving on." Ruth Jamieson i...
Episode 50: Julian Victoria and Emily Rogers, Dog magazine
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"You guys don't make dog owners look crazy..." Julian Victoria and Emily Rogers are the editors of Dog, the lifestyle magazine for people who love dog...
Episode 49: Dan Sandison and Seb White, Mundial magazine
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"If we can't capitalise on football being more popular than it's ever been, we probably shouldn't be in the business of making a football magazine!" M...
Episode 48: Marc and Reine, Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"This is the survival mode for magazines – they'll never disappear because they're so beautifully made... You can't do that online." Marc Robbemond ...
Episode 47: Marcroy Smith, People of Print
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"People of Print is about everyone being part of it – we're not just some company telling you what's cool." Marcroy Smith is the founder of People o...
Episode 46: Cassius Matthias, Yes & No magazine
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything is about story, and the content defines the design." Cassius Matthias is the founder and editor of Yes & No, a bold new magazine that defi...
Episode 45: Fraser Allen, Hot Rum Cow
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"It's almost as if they don't care about the future of the magazine industry." Fraser Allen is the publisher of Hot Rum Cow, the Edinburgh-based indep...
Episode 44: Malte and Urs, Indiecon
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Independent magazines are more like a culture than a market." Urs Spindler and Malte Brenneisen are the co-organisers of Indiecon, the co-editors of ...
Episode 43: Steve Anglesey, The New European
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"I would have quite liked it if we hadn't needed to publish The New European in the first place." Steve Anglesey is digital content director of The Ne...
Episode 42: Ryan Fitzgibbon, Hello Mr magazine
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"The devastation of the shooting at Pulse nightclub was one of the biggest markers that shifted the intention of my work, and made me question why I w...
Episode 41: Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven, MacGuffin magazine
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Stack Awards opened for entries this week, and Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven flew into London to join us for our launch event, which bro...
Episode 40: Davide Cazzaro, Nang magazine
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Davide Cazzaro is the Seoul-based publisher and editor-in-chief of Nang, the magazine of Asian cinema. He dropped in at our office when he was in Lond...
Episode 39: Caitlin Thompson & David Shaftel, Racquet magazine
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I made my first ever trip to Wimbledon to speak with Caitlin Thompson and David Shaftel, publisher and editor of Racquet magazine. Recorded ...
Episode 38: Isabel and Justinien, Migrant Journal
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live in Amsterdam on 21 June 2017, we speak to Isabel Seiffert and Justinien Tribillon about their phenomenally successful Migrant Journal, t...
Episode 37: Kati Krause, Anxy magazine
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last month we delivered Anxy magazine to our subscribers around the world, so we were very pleased to have contributing editor Kati Krause drop into t...
Episode 36: Louis Jensen, Illegal! magazine
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode isn't ideal for listening with small children. Louis Jensen runs Illegal! magazine, which exists to empower drug addicts and encou...
Episode 35: Danielle Pender and Dan Ziglam, Riposte magazine
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the Byline festival of journalism, Riposte magazine editor Danielle Pender and her husband Dan Ziglam speak about creativity, balancing wo...
Episode 34: David Jenkins and Adam Woodward, Little White Lies
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We all know Little White Lies as a brilliant film magazine, but these days it's also a film podcast hosted by none other than James Richardson (TV pre...
Stack Live: BME print
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The last 12 months has seen a new wave of British independent magazines made by people of colour, so we brought a group of them together for a panel d...
Episode 33: Joe Hedinger, Dogear magazine
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dogear is the bookmark that thinks it's a magazine – a lovely, unassuming piece of print that we were lucky enough to send out on Stack this month a...
Episode 32: Cathy Olmedillas, Anorak magazine
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Olmedillas began publishing her independent children's magazine 10 years ago, and in this conversation she reveals the process of evolution that...
Episode 31: Owen Pritchard, Printed Pages magazine
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The latest issue of Printed Pages is out now, with Ted Parker's big pink grin beaming out from newsstands around the world. It's Nice That's magazine ...
Episode 30: Max Barnett and Patricia Villirillo, Pylot magazine
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pylot is the analogue photography magazine that promises to never retouch its images for beauty. With the latest issue hitting shelves right now, edit...
Episode 29: Liv Siddall, Rough Trade Magazine
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are loads of really great music magazines out there, so how do you make one that stands out from the crowd? Liv Siddall's solution was to make a...
Episode 28: Rosa Park, Cereal magazine
14 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cereal is the travel and style magazine renowned for its beautiful minimalism, and with the latest issue founders Rosa Park and Rich Stapleton have in...
Episode 27: Giovanni Marchini Camia, Fireflies magazine
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last week Giovanni Marchini Camia flew over to London to present Fireflies magazine as part of our Magazines at the Movies event. He's normally based ...
Episode 26: Elisabeth Krohn, Sabat magazine
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mixing witchcraft with feminism, Sabat magazine brings a fresh perspective to the occult. It has been brilliantly successful since it first launched a...
Episode 25: Eyesore magazine
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we met up with Arman, Ganesha and Théodore from Eyesore to speak about their magazine dedicated to the changing face of the city. Starting ...
Episode 24: Peter Lundgren, T-Post
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 13 years, Peter Lundgren has been mixing magazines with t-shirts: each 'issue' of T-Post is a high quality, ethically produced t-shirt wi...
Episode 23: Peter Bil'ak, Works That Work
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're off at the EDCH editorial design conference in Munich, where the first speaker was Peter Bil'ak from Works That Work. He spoke about h...
Episode 22: Jaap Biemans, Coverjunkie
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode features bonafide magazine expert Jaap Biemans, better known as Coverjunkie. I dropped in at his home in Amsterdam and chatted wit...
Episode 21: David Lane, frieze magazine
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A fresh new redesign of frieze magazine hit newsstands yesterday (23 February, 2017) so I dropped into their office earlier this week to speak to the ...
Stack Live: Independents of Amsterdam
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Makerversity in Amsterdam on Monday 6 February 2017, this episode features a panel discussion with Kirsten Algera, editor of MacGuffi...
Episode 20: Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Vestoj
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're speaking with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, editor of Vestoj, a fashion magazine unlike any other. The latest issue is dedicated to 'mascul...
Stack Live: Small Magazines
03 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at The Book Club in London on 24 January 2017, with Liv Siddall, editor of Rough Trade magazine, Jack Self, editor and founder of Real R...
Episode 19: Edvinas Bruzas, Water Journal
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Eddy, the founder, editor and art director of Water Journal, a photo-driven magazine that dedicates its pages to exploring w...
Episode 18: Rabbits Road Press
20 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we paid a visit to Rabbits Road Press, the new community risograph print studio and publishing press based in Newham, East London. There we ...
Episode 17: Tom Armstrong, The Move
13 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for our first proper podcast episode of 2017, chatting with Tom Armstrong, editor of London-based music magazine The Move. Hear him speakin...
Stack Live: Food magazines of New York
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On our second podcast trip to New York we go back to Small City in Brooklyn for a panel discussion recorded in front of a live audience on 20 October ...
Stack Live: Independents of New York
26 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on 18 October 2016 in front of an audience at the School of Visual Arts in New York, this panel discussion features three of the city's most ...
Episode 16: Jack Self, Real Review
16 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week I caught up with Jack Self, editor of Real Review, to speak to him about his magazine that won Launch of the Year at our awards ceremony las...
Episode 15: Supermundane
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week Supermundane dropped in on the Stack office, so we whipped out the microphone and took the opportunity to record an interview with him. The ...
Episode 14: Danny Miller, Weapons of Reason
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we slip back in time to early September, for a conversation with Danny Miller, publisher of Weapons of Reason and co-founder of creative age...
Episode 12: Mushpit magazine
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Roberts and Bertie Brandes, the two women behind Mushpit magazine, drop in on the Stack office at Somerset House to talk about the making of...
Episode 11: Mackenzie Peck, Math magazine
11 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode begins on a train to Nottingham, jets off to New York, then ends up back here in my living room in London. And in the middle of it...
Episode 10: Nadia Saccardo, Pallet magazine
04 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're zipping back across the Atlantic for an interview with Nadia Saccardo from Pallet magazine. We met while I was in New York last month,...
Episode 9: Jeremy Leslie, magCulture
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Reporting from the Mod Mag conference in London, we speak with organiser and magCulture founder Jeremy Leslie about what independent means today, and ...
Episode 8: The Pitchfork Review
22 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode comes from New York, where I dropped in on Noelle Roth and Matthew Schnipper, art director and managing editor of The Pitchfork Re...
Episode 7: Ladybeard
14 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode comes direct from my kitchen table, as I'm joined by Kitty Drake, Sadhbh O'Sullivan and Scarlet Evans from Ladybeard magazine. As ...
Episode 6: Ricarda Messner, Sofa magazine
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With the new issue of Flaneur magazine hitting newsstands around the world, we speak to publisher Ricarda Messner about her new project, Sofa magazine...
Episode 5: Steven Gregor, Gym Class magazine
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Gregor, editor, publisher and creative director of Gym Class magazine, speaks about the current state of independent magazine publishing, and w...
Episode 4: Rob Orchard, Delayed Gratification magazine
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're rescued from a small audio disaster by Rob Orchard, editor of Delayed Gratification magazine. Their latest issue is hitting shelves ri...
Episode 3: Agnese Kleina, Benji Knewman magazine
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We catch Agnese Kleina, fresh from the stage at Indiecon, to speak about her upcoming Benji Dinner project, and the community-building power of indepe...
Episode 2: Nelson Ng, Lost magazine
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Steve escapes to the lake with Nelson Ng, creator of Lost magazine, to hear about his nascent publishing empire, and the way that mobile phones are re...
Episode 1: Dan Stafford, Amuseum magazine
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Stafford, editor and art director of Amuseum magazine, speaks about silliness, physicality and the importance of making a magazine you love. Recor...