The Bath Magazine’s Weekend Edition is dispatched every Friday. In each issue Daniel McCabe from Magalleria recommends a magazine from its diverse stash of fine, independent and specialist titles. Here is a selection of those that have been included in recent weeks. store.magalleria.co.uk
Evergreen is a new volume for ‘the gardening curious’ from the publishers of frankie magazine. It caters for gardens of all sizes and gardeners of all abilities – including the easily daunted – to tackle indoor plants, balcony veggie patches, courtyard pots and shared or community gardens. You’ll find accessible, simplified guides, plant care advice (‘How to not suck at succulents’), case studies for inspiration and even an attractive, arty planting guide poster. The generous space given to indoor plants is particularly welcome given their rediscovery by a new generation who’ll find little to buy on the subject within contemporary lifestyle publishing. | £14.99
HÅNDVÆRK is a Danish magazine profiling craftspeople, artisans, makers and industry communicators in contemporary Scandinavian craft and design. It is a terrific resource for hobbyists or small makers who want to transition from working in the garden shed to a dedicated light industrial environment. It’s not a trade magazine with technical information, rather a collection of successful case studies providing practical advice, guidance and inspiration for those who feel they could turn a skill or interest into a satisfying day job. The latest issue looks at people working with wood, including a violin maker, a basketweaver, a cask maker and a craftsman who makes unconventional furniture out of waste materials. | £20
The latest issue of German typography magazine Slanted (no) 44 explores the intersection of fonts and fashion. It turns out to be quite a hot spot indeed, a cutting edge zone for the former and a dynamic canvas for expression for the latter that embraces the unconventional, the provocative, the political and the conceptual to challenge the status quo in both industries. I think this is one of the most interesting releases from Slanted, and you won’t really need a strong interest in either fashion or type to be dazzled. | £25
HEIST-OUT is a new wristwatch magazine from Geneva-based watch fanatics Maxime Couturier and Lorenzo Maillard. The magazine’s name borrows from the term ‘Iced Out’ (a reference to watches or jewellery fully set with diamonds) and ‘Heist’ in the sense that the venture is intended as a break out from the current framework of watch industry, which they argue is now stale in its presentation, overly-homogenised to the point of being just ‘a smooth surface’. The magazine aims to create a community around watch aficionados with the same convictions and tastes, where heritage is blended with the cutting-edge to foster an alternative watchmaking scene. | £20
PAPERBOY feels aimed at and made by someone with a creative eye who observes what others miss, often things that look like something else or something that makes you laugh, inspires you perhaps, or just asks a question that invites deeper contemplation. The magazine has noticed a trend in contemporary language where people now substitute the word ‘human’
for ‘man’, ‘woman’ and other regular descriptions (as in someone is a ‘beautiful human’ or ‘spectacular human’) and believes this is an inevitable reaction to the dehumanising, impersonal effects of technology. It argues that our own intelligence is not artificial, it’s 100 per cent human. Issue #6 features a range of very capable writers, photographers and artists who celebrate humanity with 148 pages of only good news, made in the real world with our own imperfect, human hands | £18