Brooklyn, New York: I picked up a couple of copies of this magazine at the Williamsburg eatery Marlow & Sons today. It’s a lovely piece of work: heavy matte paper, reinvented vintage typefaces and clever art direction by Derick Holt (the homage to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover, only with a greenhouse instead of a pyramid, cracked me up). It even smells nice, like a new book. More….
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South London-based Helen Friel had to create a new job description for what she does. The term “paper engineer” sounds surreal; against the images of heavy duty machinery and algorithms the word “engineer” conjures up, paper is a contradictorily throwaway presence. However, Friel’s craft-based design process, where she cuts and assembles paper to create inventive images for Tatler and Vanity Fair, and a range of commercial clients, is pretty straightforward.
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