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7 design magazines that every designer should know and read

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Every couple months I find some list of the best books that you should read about Design, Product Design, User Experience, etc.

But to be honest, I never find lists of magazines that explore these subjects. Most of the people focus on books to learn new things, but there is so much great content available from independent publishers on a more regular basis.

So I decided to share my personal list of the best magazines I read about design. If you know mags that aren’t on this list, please let me know in the comments and I can share my own thoughts on it.

7. Delayed Gratification

Delayed Gratification primary focus is to deliver better, more constructive and envisioned stories for readers.

It is the only magazine in this list that doesn’t talk about actual design, but in my view, it’s high ground material to keep you informed of what is going on in the world.

Rather than the common news that focuses on the eye of the hurricane itself, this magazine follows Slow Movements like Slow-living, Slow-food, and etc, to step back and explain what is truly happening around the world over the last three months.

Check out this trailer for more info, and you for even further insights watch this TEDx Talk about Slow-Journalism.

6. Holo

A biannual, 230 pages magazine — feels more like a book than an actual mag, focused on the intersection of art, design, and technology.

A must-read for creatives working in digital agencies, Holo is a window to the frontier of innovation that will expand your minds with new possibilities that you couldn’t even think of.

5. Backstage Talks

Published from Bratislava by the markers of By Design Conf., as a form to explore the deep conversations that occur in the backstages of the conference.

As they say, most of the best things that come out of the event every year are the talks behind the stage.

By now there are only two volumes available. The first one including names like Michael Wolff, Erik Spiekermann and Jessica Walsh and the second one have conversations with Debbie Millman, Erik Kessels, Oliviero Toscani, Tobias van Schneider, among others.

The content is truly riveting and valuable, especially for designers.

4. B Magazine

A magazine from South Korea that dedicates each issue to tell one specific brand story.

Brands like WeWork, Netflix, Airbnb, Vans, Haagen-Dazs, Rolex, Patagonia, Vitra and Google all have its own issue explaining everything you would love to know and understand about their brands. Starting with its vision, culture, offices, daily routines, and values.

A gem packed magazine for designers that are interested in the stories behind most renowned brands.

3. Works That Work

Works That Work, the so called “a magazine of unexpected creativity” is an essay on how being creative can improve our lives.

A Dutch twice-a-year design release that travels all around the world to understand the systems that particular things happen.

On this pages, you will find articles for like how a group of people started an informal car-pool service for crossing faster through the Bay Bridge every morning and a basketball court that has to be tweaked and distorted to fit a small place in the medieval city of Dubrovnik.

2. Ninety-Nine U

In my opinion by far the best art direction in this list, 99u is a premium-edition printed magazine delivered by our friends from Behance and Adobe.

The mag is loaded with practical advice, ideas and interviews with the best creatives in the planet.

If you want a taste of what it is about, check their website which tries to resume some of the depth from the content available offline.

1. Offscreen

Offscreen has been around for quite a while talking about the people who make the web, it’s founded by Kai Brach and if you haven’t yet heard of it, please subscribe to it.

The content in this magazine is much relevant to the industry.

I started following Offscreen last year once a dear friend of mine, Helio Rosas from 55/Brands introduced me to it, since then I’m always hungry for the next one to come.

Kai has a keen eye for what the web is about and makes sure that every issue stays relevant and packed with interviews and essays on the web as a mindset.

Finally, I want to quote this from Offscreen Issue 8# Editor’s note:

The web is a mindset — a way of doing things. It’s collaboration and openness, it is inclusiveness and non-hierarchical, it’s figuring stuff out, being creative and breaking some rules along the way, it’s constant re-imagining the status quo with no need for permission to get involved.

—Kai Brach

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