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I wonder if there's a reason why I can't seem to post a video file here.

Maybe you’ll like this post, or show someone. Wouldn’t that be cool.

The layout takes advantage of the small, 8-fold zine style. A title, an author, a personalized doodle, and a couple sentences of why Clementine liked the book. Show and tell. It’s actually the best.

I saw this one at Secret Planet: Books you Should Read Because I Love Them and you Might Love Them Too! This is a perfect cycle. They liked a thing, and now they’re recommending. I bought the zine, I liked it, and now I’m telling you.

I’ve been mostly talking about big magazines so far, but great layouts are everywhere you look. And believe, I’m going to showcase tons of zines. I’m in Toronto. People make lots of zines here.

Layouts I Love • A Little Book of Books You Should Read

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Pleasure! I'm a typographer who likes to show and tell the stuff I find impressive

Thank you!

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Hyperlinks Log, February 2025 The articles explore various themes: the challenges and potential of open-source layout tools for print, the saturation and diminishing impact of social media, and the paradox of employer control o…

Hyperlinks Log, February 2025 ksawyerpaul.com/2026/03/02/h...

Change up the colour. As Chloe Sevigny rightly points out, pale pink just hits like nothing else.

Then, fine, add a photo. Combine the previous two styles.

Then, indent both speakers, but place a bolded initial for each, like a bullet.

First off, bold the questions, then indent the answers.

Layouts I Love • Dazed, Winter 2025

#layoutsilove #dazed #typography #interviews #columns

Let's say you want to set a two column page. How should the paragraphs work to make it interesting? The winter 2025 issue of Dazed offers some ideas.

Finally, type Hope so big it bleeds over, looping back over, letting the title take over a whole middle column. Good. We need all the large-typed hope and optimism we can get.

Change it up some more. Rotate some type. Add some colour. But write the name twice for clarity.

Next one: best in black. Retail therapy in grey. It's a little chromatic change. Keeps things fresh.

Designer of the year is in gray, Willo Perron in black. Subhead, space, three unjustified columns, a clean start.

Layouts I Love • Wallpaper*, Feb 2026

I like Wallpaper* a lot. I'll have more to say about the magazine in future issues. For this one, I want to just focus on Header hierarchy.

#layoutsilove #wallpapermagazine #typography #editorialdesign #graphicdesign

Wizard’s main attraction was seemingly it's price guide for comics collectors. I bet that was fun to make every month.

Pre-internet magazines have a lot of content that is just what everyone does now for free: lists, rankings, quizzes. But we used to lay them out in QuarkXpress.

I don't know too much about Wizard. What I like here are the pages about process. Rough drafts, sketches. Inspiration. To me, that kind of thing is timeless. You could still learn from this.

My friend Chris offered me up some Wizard magazines for this project. This project is making me a believer in manifestation, at least to the degree that my friends are handing me magazines. Keep them coming!

Layouts I Love • Wizard, August 1998

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Layouts I Love • Street fighter Battle HUD Design

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Walked past a cyber truck, my partner and I audibly said "ew." As we crossed the street, a pair of girls passed us. From behind us, we knew they'd seen it because they also said "ew", even louder.

For the last page that impressed me, look at this table. InDesign lets you make a table like this fairly easily. But what’s this? Gaps between the row and column lines? Rounded edges? You do that because it’s fun, not because it’s easy.

Monocle’s layouts are lessons in column work. There’s three here. One is finishing off a previous pages’ article. One is a contained highlight story. The third is a list. Each with their own context, each with their own width, each with their own hierarchy.

The Masthead appears simple enough, but there’s a double-column on the left I find impressive. It’s dense with information without seeming dull. This would be a good assignment for an InDesign student.