The Stack
For print and publishing lovers. Covering everything from indie magazines to major publications and the evolving world of print media.
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‘Anorak’, ‘Vogue Poland’ and ‘Kyoto Journal’
It’s all too easy to get caught up in the moral panic over youngsters’ addiction to social media and digital devices. But this week we speak to the founder of a children’s magazine publisher…
Happiness in magazines
It’s the cruellest time of year: the nights are long and the willpower to maintain new year’s resolutions is in short supply – if not already exhausted. For the sake of moral support this…
Football magazines
Strap on your shin pads and pump up your balls: we’re commentating on the state of football publications. From newsstand stalwarts to US upstarts, there’s something out there for every fan of the beautiful…
Mirko Borsche, the future of the ‘LA Times’ and ‘Openhouse’ magazine
One of the world’s foremost editorial designers talks us through a trio of his longest-running projects. Plus: our editor in chief tells us what he thinks the future of southern California’s pre-eminent legacy newspaper…
‘Buffalo Zine’, ‘Mynah Magazine’ & ‘Clove’
From the sartorial to the subcontinental, this week we take a closer look at three magazines that take the expectations of you, the reader, and throw them back in your face like an old…
‘The TLS’, ‘Observador’ and ‘Anxy’
Stig Abell has a vision of how that most tweedy of titles – the Times Literary Supplement – should sit on a 21st-century newsstand. Plus: a distinctly Iberian lifestyle publication that has made the…
Catch of the day
Grab your tackle and steady your rod: we cast our net out into the wide world of fishing with a magazine celebrating the angling lifestyle. Plus: ‘The New York Times’ releases a regular kids…
Print resolutions
Stretch your quads and lace up your trainers: we’re burning off our festive paunches with an invigorating jog through the pages of a new running magazine. Plus: how a legacy psychology title gets inside…
The Best of The Stack 2017
We take stock of another year in discussion with the most important editors, designers and industry figures in print.
The story of ‘The Face’
We speak to the author of a new book celebrating the career of a UK magazine that changed the way youth culture was covered in print. Plus: Scandinavian men and the relaunch of a…
