Writing is like 80% walking around coming up with it and 20% feeling like Sisyphus in front of my computer and the 20% feels like 80%
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Writing is like 80% walking around coming up with it and 20% feeling like Sisyphus in front of my computer and the 20% feels like 80%
The front half of the zine highlights events happening in the season, and the back half highlights local artists. It’s a great way to bisect a booklet. It’s also just really fun to hold and flip through.
Yuzin Cultural Journal is a pretty lovely excuse to tell people about the fun historical stuff on an island. It’s printed like a zine, with only two colours, great typographic flourishes, and in two languages (because tourism!)
My friend Liane recently went on a trip to [Sao Miguel](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3...) and brought me back this lovely tourist booklet. This is one of my favourite kinds of souvenir so thank you 🤗
Layouts I Love • Sao Miguel Yuzin November 2025
@[yuzinazores](www.instagram.com/yuzinazores/...)
#layoutsilove #yuzin #editorialdesign #saomiguel #azores
@davidpierce.xyz To answer the question of uses for big phone screen: websites in desktop mode, Readwise, magazine reading in Libby, and DS emulation.
StreetPass still feels like a delightful miracle of p2p networking possibilities. Asynchronous community. Mostly kind!
One must imagine sysiphous orgasmic
And this issue isn’t getting away before I compliment this nice orange gradient in the book reviews section, contrasting the pink 3D mockup nicely.
I’m a sucker for text that types itself off the page. Nobody likes this comparison but it’s very Zune in a way I appreciate.
The “small wonders” lighting spread is pretty. It breaks its own grid by floating images on top. It’s a nice composition.
Layouts I Love • Azure, Jan-Feb 2026
@azuremagazine #layoutsilove #torontodesign #editorialdesign #architecture
Azure’s Jan-Feb issue is a nice exercise in colour blocking. The cover uses a pretty simple trick to make the image feel dynamic. You ever do this trick in your designs? Why not?
It's not just video games. So many projects (some basically finished) never ship for tons of reasons.
I wonder if there's a reason why I can't seem to post a video file here.
Maybe you’ll like this post, or show someone. Wouldn’t that be cool.
The layout takes advantage of the small, 8-fold zine style. A title, an author, a personalized doodle, and a couple sentences of why Clementine liked the book. Show and tell. It’s actually the best.
I saw this one at Secret Planet: Books you Should Read Because I Love Them and you Might Love Them Too! This is a perfect cycle. They liked a thing, and now they’re recommending. I bought the zine, I liked it, and now I’m telling you.
I’ve been mostly talking about big magazines so far, but great layouts are everywhere you look. And believe, I’m going to showcase tons of zines. I’m in Toronto. People make lots of zines here.
Layouts I Love • A Little Book of Books You Should Read
#layoutsilove #zineculture #torontoart #smallpress #recommendations
Pleasure! I'm a typographer who likes to show and tell the stuff I find impressive
Thank you!
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Finally, type Hope so big it bleeds over, looping back over, letting the title take over a whole middle column. Good. We need all the large-typed hope and optimism we can get.
Change it up some more. Rotate some type. Add some colour. But write the name twice for clarity.
Next one: best in black. Retail therapy in grey. It's a little chromatic change. Keeps things fresh.
Designer of the year is in gray, Willo Perron in black. Subhead, space, three unjustified columns, a clean start.
Layouts I Love • Wallpaper*, Feb 2026
I like Wallpaper* a lot. I'll have more to say about the magazine in future issues. For this one, I want to just focus on Header hierarchy.
#layoutsilove #wallpapermagazine #typography #editorialdesign #graphicdesign
Wizard’s main attraction was seemingly it's price guide for comics collectors. I bet that was fun to make every month.
Pre-internet magazines have a lot of content that is just what everyone does now for free: lists, rankings, quizzes. But we used to lay them out in QuarkXpress.
