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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
The start-up that stopped
Over just ten issues, Peter Biľak’s Works That Work sought to rethink design, while exploring new models of distribution and finance
Surfers and divers
An innovative website tells the story of the Palestinian people in their own words, in two languages
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
The alternative viewpoint
The magazines in the stable of Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers are as distinctive in their editorial voices as they are in their visual tone and design
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
Guilt, abstracted
Nora Krug’s graphic memoir explores the
impact of the Second World War – and the Nazi regime – on German families
Point of difference
Enigmatic imagery and restrained typography give HR membership quarterly Work. the visual personality of an independent magazine