Careful Consideration, Thoughtful Typography

Posted 05/08/2006 by jaimes

Following a recent heated debate about design changes on a magazine which *gnva has been working on, I have been collecting some discussions and examples of magazine design. Enter the grid.

eye magazine features a critique of recent redesigns by two London art magazines. Eye concludes that the designs are successful, yet illustrate the conservatism of the art magazine design project, perhaps necessitated by the need to display visual work primarily, and page design second.

An interview with Karel Martens on his work with OASE magazine in Holland reveals a more free flowing approach, in which the grid provides a platform for the magazine to be fluidly redesigned around, every issue.

http://www.eyemagazine.com/critique.php?cid=282