We Make Mags

The tabloid newspaper has received a bit of attention among magazine designers lately as a result of the Things our friends have written on the internet project.

We’ve received our copy (hand numbered as 690 of 1000) and have to admit it’s a really rather splendid thing as well as a brilliant reminder of the possibilities the medium offers. Newsprinting is cheap and, with good design, could offer an effective solution for a range of low budget projects. Just so long as you can coax the client past the mental image of their shoddy local rag, that is!

If you’d like to get your hands on one, I’m afraid you’re going to have to beg, borrow or steal as they’re all gone now but who knows – perhaps they could be persuaded to produce a 2009 edition.

Although not normally a Metro reader, I happened to pick up a copy on the bus this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find it’s had a bit of a facelift. It’s a pretty good job too – the changes are subtle and the identity of the paper remains intact but it’s a good deal cleaner. We don’t have an old copy around but, if I can lay hands on one, I’ll post up a bit of a compare and contrast.