Grafik Mag
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I don't think I've ever looked in Grafik. Didn't it use to be something else, and before that Graphics International, and before that something else that was a sister magazine to Blueprint?... or, was it actually Blueprint once upon a time?
Creative Review became a very matey sort of deal in my opinion. I've long since stopped reading it but I used to love/hate how they would include a typeface design in the 'What's New In Design' (or whetever its called) section every month, and it was always the same typeface, 'designed' each month by some other fontographer graduate nobody had ever heard of, and always based on a blocky font, or a bubble font, or gridfont that was done in the 60's anyway.
It went downhill when they had that 'New Broom' period, when Chris Ashworth and Substance re-designed it. The re-design was really good I thought, but the nambypamby new editorial direction it took at that point sucked and has tarnished it ever since. Just a sychophantic chumfest with nothing valuable to say.
I wonder how insubstantial flickthroughs like CR can survive when things like ffffound (love it or hate it) can provide that visual fix wider, faster, deeper and cheaper.
Do they still produce Baseline? That was always a good hearty smorgasbord back in the day.
- CR has no substance these days, more like a student look book.********
- CR has no substance these days, more like a student look book.