Feature: Magazines
Supernova
Provocative photographer and art director Harri Peccinotti stylishly reflected his times, from jazz and advertising to Nova magazine. Profile by Serge Ricco
Films on tap
Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, Mubi favours editorial design over marketing conventions to reach twenty million subscribers in 190 countries. By John L. Walters [EXTRACT]
John Randle and his 26 soldiers of lead
As Matrix comes to a full stop, its doughty founder talks to Eye. Photographs by Philip Sayer
Chloe Scheffe: Rethinking editorial design
Brooklyn-based Chloe Scheffe designs books by groundbreaking thinkers and tackles magazines with a similarly radical approach
Jack Davison: Play of light
Each of Jack Davison’s portraits is a spontaneous dance with his subject, says New York Times Magazine photo director Kathy Ryan
Tales from the West Coast
With its origins in ‘live journalism’ shows, The California Sunday Magazine achieves its narrative power through a cinematic approach to photography and type
This woman’s work
Kate Hepburn’s design career, embracing pioneering magazines such as Spare Rib and Vole as well as comedy and rock’n’roll, is rooted in rigorous typography
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Pulling back the curtain
Published by the Communist Women’s League, Ty i Ja [You and I] was an ambitious 1960s title that brought the outside world to its Polish readers
Two-colour haikus
Banks & Miles art directed Which? magazine, the Consumers’ Association’s flagship title and its covers. John Miles talks to Paul Harpin