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Ten independent food magazines to settle down with this winter – 2025 edition
Moving into the festive period whether you’re a foodie or not, food becomes a major talking point as we try and secure our traditional ingredients. Food culture within the independent magazine world is thriving and I’ve chosen ten of my favourite titles in the space.
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Sälä magazine to launch issue two during Helsinki Design Week
Sälä Magazine is set to launch their brand new issue two this September. The Finnish-origined publication is an alternative design magazine primarily “serving as a mediator,” the team notes on their website. “Our core mission is to provide a platform for emerging designer[s] and creatives, their works, and their ideas encouraging the rethinking of established practices within publishing culture. We aim to advance the field of visual communication by bringing together professionals from the art and design industries and fostering a culture shaped by critical thinking and care-driven innovation.”
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San Francisco to host Art Book Fair this weekend
The 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair kicks off today - Friday 11th July. With over 150 independent exhibitors at the show, some exhibitors have travelled from the likes of Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Nicaragua and many more. For the third year in a row, the fair is presented by the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, a non profit organisation founded in 2019 with the mission to provide “robust support infrastructure and [critical] access to the space and tools necessary for working artists, technicians, and curators to create,” as noted on their website.
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A Passion Thing to launch issue 12 with Vienna event
A Passion Thing magazine is to launch issue 12 this week in Vienna, Austria. As described on their website, “A Passion Thing Magazine is a biannual publication about people driven by passion and redefining success.” With issue 12 the team continues their bold and fully refreshed re-design of the magazine but also continues to offer, “fresh perspectives on life, career, and design,” as they note on LinkedIn and the magazine cover itself.
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BL8D explores mortality in brand new third volume
BL8D returned to newsstands, galleries and independent concept stores across the globe this Spring. BL8D, as Overleaf has previously published covering issues one and two respectively, has always held a vibrant and gripping torch on creativity and modern issues. The issues that the magazine covers are gripping in a surprising, daunting and impactful way
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Terra Firma launches issue nine with new London exhibition
Terra Firma magazine issue nine was launched this month in a brand new exhibition named ‘I’m so gay for you’. Hosted at miłość (me-wosh-ch) gallery in London, the group exhibition opened with a private view on Valentine’s Day and continues until the 15th of March 2025.
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Viscose Journal launching issue 7 in New York City this January
Viscose Journal will be launching their brand new issue 7 on Thursday 30th January at a special event in New York City. Contributors Jessica Murphy, Whitney Mallet, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Andreas Keller, Ro Miller, Diane Severin Nguyen, Juje Hsiung and Jeppe Ugelvig are all set to be at the event.
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Solomiya magazine announces new Berlin festival Solomiya Studio
Artist-run independent magazine Solomiya (‘soлomiya’) has announced their brand new festival Solomiya Studio. To be held at KVOST in Berlin, Germany between 5th of February to the 19th of February 2025, the new initiative aims to shed light on the dynamic and distinctive mix of discourses that Solomiya is known for.
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Overleaf Year in Review: 2024 Edition
It’s been another huge year for independent print from across the globe and Overleaf has continued to play a small part within the community. In 2024 we saw a lot of new, inventive titles pop-up, whilst established titles launched “best of” collections that celebrate the amazing work across issues. We also saw some titles leave us, including Where The Leaves Fall and Total Film (TF is non-independent but deserves a nod).
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Kickstarter launched for mini zine This Creative Life – A Brand Seasons® Paper
A Kickstarter has launched for a brand new mini zine - ‘This Creative Life - A Brand Seasons® Paper’. Created by Sarah Robertson of These Are The Days - a branding studio based in the Scottish Borders, the campaign also includes Brand Seasons® Playdeck, a card deck with 48 prompts and practices to “help businesses and creatives craft a brand that feels like home,” the campaign notes.
