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.
Dougal Marwick, Creative at the independent graphic design studio, Touch, talks about his favourite magazine, Relax. Relax was a Japanese pop culture magazine in the late 1990’s – Dougal loves the design and production values, including inlaid flexi-disks, custom sticker sheets and gatefold posters.
Clare Harris, Director of the Scottish Contemporary Art Network, talks about the feminist magazine Spare Rib, which was massively influential for the feminist movement in the 1970s. She found her copies in the Glasgow Women’s Library, a museum with all sorts of women’s history on its shelves.
Alec Dudson talks about his favourite magazine, Colors, which was published by Fabrica, Benetton Group’s communication research centre. To Alec, Colors was some of the finest magazine making ever – he loves a magazine that can take a societal issue and elegantly show how that plays out in different contexts.
Director of the International Magazine Centre, Nikki Simpson, tells us why she loves the running title Like The Wind, as well as talking about some of the other magazines and publishers that inspire her.
