There was once, around 1999/2000 I guess, a magazine in the UK named ’level.’ and that was/became my ’all time favourite’ magazine, ever. The design (simple, minimalistic, unusual photography, generous whitespace, Helvetica, ’urban’) and the content. Finissimo.

Dav

There is a magazine that comes out of Sydney called Black+White. It is a large magazine of art photography and articles about culture (sometimes pretentious and post-modern, sometimes not). In design terms it is without doubt the most significant mag to be published in Australia. Take a look at that.

I just, very happily, noticed a ’nanosite’ still exists, featuring the previous covers: www.levelmag.com. (For sample spreads I found a japanes blog featuring an article about Banksy, showing off nicely the design and layout of the inside of ’level.’: blog.livedoor.jp/bristol_uk/archives/167232.html)

Dav

some currently available magazines:

dot dot dot
self-service
a magazine
neon (Germany)
brand eins (by Mike Meire - check also his ’ugly’ design for 032c)
metal magazine (by Albert Folch, Spain)
anything by Jop Van Bennekom (RE-Magazine, Butt, Fantastic Man...)

Spanish title ’Suite’ (http://www.suitemagazine.es/) in terms of typography is just great, featuring the typefaces of AD Inigo Jerez.

the Wire (non-format years were brilliant)

to name a few.

Believer (futures smells like the past design)

NewType (J-pop enthusiasm as design)

EAT (very anti-design)

I used to like Nest

http://www.webhustlers.com/nest/archive/

I really enjoy Dwell, GOOD, and Fast Company. But, I read these so the content contributes a lot to my enjoyment even though I do think they are nicely (overall) designed.

Among my faves