Like almost every other person in the western culture, I have a history of magazines in the past twenty-three years. Here I want to explain which magazines touched my life in a significant way. These are not necessarily the magazines I like most, but the ones I spent most time with in my life. (I will write another post about my current favorites one, like Printed Pages or Offscreen or The Outpost or IDPure etc).
A little bit background to my magazine design education: I had three magazine design courses in the last eleven semesters: One with Mario Lombardo, in which we had to redesign a magazine and who took us to Berlin to visit the makers of DUMMY, Sarah Illenberger, onlab etc. Another course was with onelab, in which we designed three magazines in three weeks. And the third course was taught by Paul Sych at the York University in Toronto, where I designed the first dotview magazine.
In the first course I got to know the old masters of magazine design; Mario Lombardo let us do presentations about people like Willy Fleckhaus and Alexei Brodowitsch. In the second course, taught by onlab, I learned that generating the content of a magazine is hard work, too. And that deadlines are GOOD. And Paul Sych’s course made me aware of the technical basics of magazine design and all the important terms.
In all three courses we got to know a lot of magazines, of course. Following the magculture blog more aware with its importance for me in mind, the internship at Bloomberg Businessweek and the three magazine design conferences I’ve visited so far, were also possibilities to get to know the exciting world of magazines a little bit better. As mentioned, I will do another post about the magazines that amaze me - conceptual, design-wise and regarding the content - in the next days.