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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 our heads, and Jeremy Leslie surveys the state of print going into the new year.
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 beloved Japanese journal for city girls.
‘National Geographic Food’
A legacy title steps out of its comfort zone with a standalone spin-off focused on food, and we explore the pleasures and sorrows of covering technology in print. Plus, a new style and culture journal from Nottingham.
‘Lodestars Anthology: Pathways’
Launched a successful magazine? Why not take the next logical step and dip your to into the world of book publishing? Today, one of our favourite travel journals goes hardbound. Plus: the man who can make all your newsprint dreams come true and a food publication to whet your appetite.
Live from the Monocle Christmas Market
Tyler Brûlé is joined by Georgina Godwin and a host of festive favourites in this special live programme broadcast from the Monocle Christmas Market. Luxury correspondent Sagra Maceira de Rosen shares her list of favourite magazines of the season, we browse the weekend’s papers, and we find our how David…
The Stack Awards 2017
The people who make independent magazines aren’t motivated by fame or fortune. They simply want their passion projects to reach an appreciative community of like-minded readers. Still, given the long hours and unpredictable financial returns, most wouldn’t turn down an offer of an open bar, and maybe even a gong…
‘Fantastic Man’
Find out how one of the most influential magazines of the past decade-and-a-bit has broken the habit of a lifetime with its latest cover. Plus: a title from Germany to boost your hosting skills and a magazine about cities that doesn’t shy away from the grittier aspects of urban living.
Cultural capital
The editors of legacy newspapers’ arts sections can be a gloomy bunch: on top of their sensitive dispositions, sadly they’re often the first casualties when management wields the axe. This week: a conversation with an arts-desk chief who’s a heartening exception to that rule. Plus: a magazine proving the midwest…
The Modern Magazine 2017
Your favourite independent magazines are compiled through hours of solitary and near-solitary toil by industry fanatics hunched over InDesign, stuck in what can sometimes feel like a state of purgatory. No wonder this (usually) invisible army jumps at the chance to get outside and share ideas with like-minded print fans.…
