For many years, the internet has been hailed as the death of print. In the periodicals area of the library, we know that’s not true, because we see hundreds of students and visitors going though our magazines every semester.
Just so you know, we update our list of subscriptions all the time. We’re trying to always have the newest, most interesting sources for fashion, art, and design. Here are some newer titles you might not have seen yet.
Acne Paper began as the print sidekick of the Acne Studios in Stockholm. It expresses the studio’s point of view on art, fashion, and current culture, with offices in Stockholm, London, and Paris. It’s grown to be an influential source for fashion ideas.
You can take a look at the work of Acne Studios:
Fat Magazine comes from similar interests in art, fashion, and daily life expressed through designed things. Published in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, it picks up the thread of challenge common to art and brings it into current-day fashion layout, graphic design, and photography.
http://www.fat.fi/ and also
The magazine Hi Fructose is focused on illustration, not fashion. The magazine is filled with graphic design, drawing, sculpture, and other contemporary arts aimed at inspiring artists of all sorts.
You can look at more about the magazine here:
The next title, Oh Comely, comes from gentler impulses, advertising itself as a compilation that “makes people smile, full of quiet moments and stories.” This magazine, published in London, is designed to be pretty and soothing, rather than challenging and thought provoking. “Read it with a cup of tea or a toddy,” declares the publicity text.
And of course it comes with/from a blog…
http://www.ohcomely.co.uk/blog
You can find the current issues of all these titles on Display at the Periodicals Desk on the 6th floor. For the most recent additions to our list of titles, you can look at the “Newly Added Titles” tab on the Periodicals by Subject List.
http://fitnyc.libguides.com/periodicals-by-subject