Kent’s Magazine Corner

Welcome back to the latest edition of Kent’s Book Magazine Corner. Every month I get to show off some of the coolest and most creative books magazines done with the Blurb platform. And as my strike-throughs indicate, this month it’s all about the magazine. The Magazine is one of my absolute favorite formats—both to consume and to create with. It seems to offer people the freedom to look beyond the book and experiment with some really unique stuff.

Serif and Silver
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Nate Matos has been blogged about before on here. In fact, I was a guest on his PDXposures podcast last June. Nate is an excellent photographer and an ace marketer of his own work. He regularly publishes a quarterly called Serif and Silver that he produces in limited editions—and that routinely sell out. So now he’s created the first ever Serif and Silver Compendium, collecting issues 1 through 4, along with offering unpublished photos. It’s filled with Nate’s stark, sun-streaked Polaroids of Americana. It’s gorgeous stuff.

Refueled #16

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Another guy who’s been known to get a mention or two on this blog is Chris Brown. Chris is a kind of insurgent publisher, a creative dynamo whose main interest is first and foremost other people’s stuff. Refueled is a quarterly devoted to the handcrafted and beautiful—or as the magazine’s masthead puts it: “Community. Discovery. Heritage.” Issue 16 brings us articles on the Comeback Axe and the venerable millinery company Stetson—along with half a dozen other creative enterprises, large and small. As is the case with his most recent issues, he’s offering it in two different cover options: a photo version and a fine-art version.

Aesthetic Guide for the Dapper Man

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On the subject of fashion, you can’t get much more stylish than Sunflowerman. He’s an absurdly talented fashion illustrator with a keen curatorial eye. This magazine was kicking around at our booth at the D&AD festival and whenever things slowed down I’d open up to a random page and take a look and get inspired. Sunflowerman profiles fashion brands and natty individuals with his singular watercolor style.

Thanks for coming by! Got magazine favorites of your own? As always, tell us about them in the comments.