Stack Magazines

Recorded live at Makerversity in Amsterdam on Monday 6 February 2017, this episode features a panel discussion with Kirsten Algera, editor of MacGuffin, Sim Kaart and Tom Janssen from Voortuin, and Marc Robbemond, buyer at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum. There's a ton of great independent publishing coming out of Amsterdam at the moment, and during our discussion we try to figure out what's driving it, and what's going down particularly well with the city's readers.

This week we're speaking with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, editor of Vestoj, a fashion magazine unlike any other. The latest issue is dedicated to 'masculinities', and she speaks about the fascinating history of beards, her dislike for fashion shoots, and her fondness for a pre-historic David Shrigley.

Recorded live at The Book Club in London on 24 January 2017, with Liv Siddall, editor of Rough Trade magazine, Jack Self, editor and founder of Real Review, and Steven Gregor, the man behind Gym Class magazine. Listen in and hear them speaking about why small magazines make more sense for them than a big, heavy, expensive luxury print product.

This week we're joined by Eddy, the founder, editor and art director of Water Journal, a photo-driven magazine that dedicates its pages to exploring water in all its forms. I love it when magazines plumb the depths of a niche, and as you'll hear this title is driven by Eddy's own personal obsession, as well as his desire to do things differently. Inspiring stuff for any aspiring independent publishers out there...

This week we paid a visit to Rabbits Road Press, the new community risograph print studio and publishing press based in Newham, East London. There we spoke to founders Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin and Heiba Lamara about their aims for the press, and how it fits in with their feminist magazine OOMK.

We're back for our first proper podcast episode of 2017, chatting with Tom Armstrong, editor of London-based music magazine The Move. Hear him speaking about the transformative power of music, the excitement he feels when he gets to share something, and the fear that set in when his first copies of the new magazine arrived.

On our second podcast trip to New York we go back to Small City in Brooklyn for a panel discussion recorded in front of a live audience on 20 October 2016. We were joined by some of the city's most exciting independent food magazine makers, with Claudia Wu from Cherry Bombe, Walter Green from Lucky Peach and Michele Outland and Fiorella Valdesolo from Gather Journal speaking about what they do.

Recorded on 18 October 2016 in front of an audience at the School of Visual Arts in New York, this panel discussion features three of the city's most exciting independent publishers speaking about their magazines. Featuring Ben Yarling from American Chordata, Christopher Isenberg from Victory Journal and Sarah Forbes Keough from Put A Egg On It.

This week I caught up with Jack Self, editor of Real Review, to speak to him about his magazine that won Launch of the Year at our awards ceremony last month. He has a fantastic talent for exploring the structures and forces that shape the way we live, and he spoke about the infrastructures of architecture, politics, publishing and much more. It was a really inspiring meeting, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he'll do in 2017.

This week Supermundane dropped in on the Stack office, so we whipped out the microphone and took the opportunity to record an interview with him. The renowned illustrator and artist was making magazines before Stack even existed, and it was brilliant to hear him reflecting on his work for Anorak and Fire & Knives, and very exciting to discover that he's planning a new print magazine for next year. Listen to our interview, then Google the talk he did earlier this year for It's Nice That. You won't be disappointed...