which magazines do you think actually look good/are designed well?

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i cant think of very many. which is a shame, are music mag designers that bad?

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wire can sometimes look good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd say the following look good:

the wire, jockey slut, the wire, vice, spin... i dont mind the NME that much. Q is ok. but the last two tend to look a bit gross a lot of the time.

as far as mags that also cover music quite a bit, i liked sleaze a lot, and dazed is pretty decent.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the wire looks double good? ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

its nice and clear, yep.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

circus
ec rocker

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks good or has good writing? There are a number of magazines that are pretty but few with content to match. And what the fuck is with every magazine that isn't strictly music having 20-page fashion spreads in every damn issue and it's always the same shit?

That said, The Wire looks nice now, and xlr8 has some good layouts (still debating old vs. new design, though).

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

another vote for The Wire. The best looking mag on the shelves. stunning covers in the last year or so.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Dazed & Confused, Studio Voice (Japanese mag), Surface, AdBusters, Arena, 80s era The Face, V fashion mag...

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Uhm, Sleazenation, TimeOut...

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wire is nice, I'm also digging Wax Poetics.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Mayfair.

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

new xlr8r looks much better, imho.

btw, we have NEVER done any fashion spreads and never will.

― seanp (seanp), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

NME used to look good, in a lo-fi sort of way. As in:

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/pics/81nov14_nme/81nov14_nme.html

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever, seanp. Good design is good design. Don't be an essentialist.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Giant Robot

― kephm, Friday, 30 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Men's World.

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

musik

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

do you mean muzik? if so it was badly designed as well as being crap.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Grooves

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Mojo can be quite elegant.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Rolling Stone doesn't look to bad. The actual contents are hardly what they used to be though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you guys not think Men Only is ten times better than NME?

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

xlr8r

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wire does look good, but well designed music magazines always seem to look somewhat... sterile.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

raygun!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Playboy for realz!!! A proven winner and amazing covers that delight and arouse!

― Dirty Scoundrel, Saturday, 31 July 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Barely Legal.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 31 July 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(HI, GEIR!!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 July 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Playbo is a well designed mag. Especially the College Girls editions.

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Beikoku Ongaku

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

National Geographic is visual smorgasbord!

― Oprah Winfrey, Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you are all FEWLZ not to be bigging up the design/photo/illustration FEAST that is Loose Lips Sink Ships. Steve Gullick pictures, y'all!

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well Salvador, the only point of fashion spreads in music magazines is to scoop up some ad dollars. i don't think our readers need me to tell them what hoodie or pair of sneaks is going to be hot for that next squarepusher gig they go to. so if not wanting to waste editorial pages on that crap makes me an essentialist, so be it.

― seanp (seanp), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

LLSS does look great. i will read it too, one day.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Monday, 2 August 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YES YOU SHOULD. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i will. but in the meantime, i like just to look at it.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Newsweek tickles my kitten.

― Captain America, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Your kitten??? What the heck! I like National Geographic because the pictures are so nice.

― Big Momma, Saturday, 7 August 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Edge

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Edge has pictures of games designers in it - i don't think that can ever be be counted as looking nice.

― Lazza, Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can smell what the Edge is cooking!!!!

― Lil Rascal, Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Halana

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i think magnet has great photography.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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