Gareth Overton is the Communications Manager at Edinburgh Innovations, the commercialisation service for the University of Edinburgh. Gareth tells us about his love of New Scientist – first for how informative it is, and second for its skill in communicating complex information.
Diane Kenwood is a freelance journalist, broadcaster, consultant and blogger at These Are The Heydays, and was also editor of Woman’s Weekly for 12 years. Here she talks about her favourite title, The Saturday Times Magazine, its regular writers, its mix of content, and how she never fails to find something she loves in every issue.
Adam Wilson, Deputy Creative Director at Whitespace, shares his favourite magazine – the film title Little White Lies. Adam works with video a lot and has treated this as a personal project, so production values are above and beyond!
Photographer Brendan MacNeill takes a look at the photography used in the relaunch issue of Nova back in 2000, and how styles and methods have changed since.
Creative director, mentor and coach to the publishing industry, Andy Cowles, is an authority when it comes to magazines. So when he says his favourite magazine is The New Yorker, and that it’s the world’s greatest magazine, we’re inclined to agree. Here he talks about how The New Yorker accomplishes the magic trick of giving you a sense of who you could be – a state of mind, rather than it being about living in New York.
