The Journal

 

Art & Literature, USA

Quarterly

192pp + Cover

Review Issue: Entry Number 28, 2010

Published by:  the journal inc., 168 North Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211

Background:

First Issue:  Entry Number 1, 1999

Founder & Editor-In-Chief:  Michael Nevin

The magazine operates as a personal journal, where you're out there seeing things, pulling things in and writing them down, like an open book. I feel that the gallery should function the same way—to take in whatever we feel is important at the moment.

• Started when he was 19 with two friends he met at the Montserrat College of Art
• Originally a black & white ‘zine’ for skate & snowboarding
• Moved from Vermont in 2004, to East Village space which was large, so evolved into a gallery as well
• Last year marked the 10^th anniversary edition & included the first fashion spread
• Magazine has essentially evolved with personal growth of Michael Nevin

Managing Editor:  Julia Dippelhofer

Design:  Peter Miles

• Previous issue, Entry Number 27 was premier of new design by Peter Miles [a graphic designer who has worked for Marc Jacobs & Sophia Coppola]

Previous contributors have included Helmut Lang, Juergen Teller

Inside:

Urs Fischer

Swiss contemporary artist who also did the supplement which comes with the magazine

Interview by Georg Herold

Photography by Leigh Johnson

Terry Richardson (above)

Interview by Michael Nevin

Photography by Terry Richardson

Fashion

Photography by Danko Steiner

Styling by Ana Steiner

Model Hannelore Knuts (also in Self Service magazine)

Music

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Fountain

These New Puritans - Hidden

Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

Thee Oh Sees – Dog Poison

Hot Chip – One Life Stand

Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise

Price: 37.00 NZD from Mag Nation 

Website: http://www.journalinc.com/

Rating:  3  /  5

• Advertising is quite sparse apart from the front section
• Beautiful photography, dreamy & abstract
• Content is very ‘art’, but meets its objective of being someones ‘journal’
• Very New York
• Simple layout & has a Peter Miles designed typography