Magazines

The Magazines collection preserves periodicals as complete designed objects: covers, editorial sequences, advertisements, inserts, bindings and evidence of use all contribute to meaning. Its scope includes independent, fashion, music, style, interiors and cultural titles whose pages record how visual identities and public conversations were assembled at a particular moment. Cataloguing distinguishes exact issue, edition, date, completeness and condition wherever the physical copy permits. Read across a run, these objects reveal changes in art direction, photography, typography, contributors and commercial culture that isolated cover images cannot show.