iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our Reading Magazines event at St Brides was loads of fun and totally fascinating. Have a look at my overview of the day to see how our speakers located themselves within 300 years of magazine evolution. stackmagazines.com/art-design/r...

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Friday we're running an event as part of London Design Festival looking back over 300 years of magazine evolution. So @theguardian.com set some of our speakers and friends the near impossible task of naming their favourite cover from the last 300 years. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

theguardian.com

‘Every magazine cover needs to seduce’: designers pick their favourites

From a timeless portrait of Lana Del Rey to an alternative guide to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, experts unpick what makes an enduring, shocking, or alluring print cover

110

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Take a tour of the tables at last week's @indiemags.bsky.social in the new episode of the Stack podcast. Featuring the people behind Bog Bodies Press, Die Quieter Please, Elastic, The Gentleman, Gerador and Supersonic Studio stackmagazines.com/update/love-...

stackmagazines.com

Love from Indiecon 2026 - STACK magazines

Take a tour around the tables at Indiecon 2026, the independent publishing fair held in Hamburg from 4-6 September 2026

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thanks very much for sharing! I’m off to Hamburg on Thursday for Indiecon, to top up on more evidence of print’s aliveness

111

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jackson Howarth, editor of It's Freezing in LA, on the sense of powerlessness that comes from climate crisis videos across social media, and how a print magazine might present information in a more digestible and constructive way. Hear the full episode: stackmagazines.com/environment/...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Publishing Dreams is a great newsletter from Broccoli about the realities of print publishing, and today's instalment is a lovely, inspiring story about turning down a big, 'proper' publishing offer and going the independent way broccolipublishing.substack.com/p/saying-no-...

broccolipublishing.substack.com

Why we said no to an art book deal

And why we made the book ourselves

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Absolutely - we have live stream tickets available on the ticketing page

101

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can’t wait to see your talk!

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s all been made possible with the support of Fleet Street Quarter, and we’re excited to be appearing as one of their festival events. Book your tickets and we'll see you there! billetto.co.uk/e/stack-and-...

billetto.co.uk

Stack and St Bride Foundation uncover 300 years of magazine evolution

What is a magazine? How did we end up with the things we know as magazines today? And how are the m...

030

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Alice Sherwin and Harry Bennett are the founders of Studio Ground Floor, and they will speak about their work on Pilot magazine. Taking a conceptual approach to each issue’s theme, they create ingenious and avant garde publications, building on and challenging the received wisdom of magazine making.

120

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Meara Sharma is senior editor of @elasticmag.bsky.social, and she will show how the magazine subtly subverts conventions of magazine making in order to communicate an original vision of psychedelic art and literature that’s “the ordinary, only slightly, weirdly off”.

130

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Lucy Roeber is editor of Erotic Review and Frith Kerr from Studio Frith is art director, and they will be in conversation with Stack founder Steven Watson. They will speak about designing the erotic for 2026, and the freedoms that a print magazine allows in an increasingly restrictive digital age.

120

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Charlie Baker is editor of @thefence.bsky.social and Mathias Clottu is art director, and in their presentation they will speak about “mining the archives”, borrowing ideas from great magazines past and using them to make a great magazine for this current moment.

130

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scott King was art director for i-D magazine in the late 1990s and creative director for Sleazenation in the early 2000s. In his talk he will speak about the work he did then, and how it has informed more recent projects such as The Debrist Manifesto (2021) and The New Space (2025).

120

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dr Sharon Maxwell Magnus is a media historian and principal Lecturer in Mass Communications at the University of Hertfordshire. Last year she published Feminism, UK Women’s Magazines and the Women Who Created Them, and she will speak about the rise of women’s magazines from the 1960s to the 1990s.

120

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tony Quinn is a magazine historian and author of the V&A book A History of British Magazine Design. He will kick off the day with a whistlestop tour of the first 250 years of magazine publishing, showing how social, technological, and commercial changes shaped the thing we now know as the magazine.

130

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For this year’s London Design Festival we’re collaborating with St Brides to take a fresh look at where magazines came from, and what they mean to readers today. In-person tickets are £40 for the full day, or £34 for the livestream, and they're available now. billetto.co.uk/e/stack-and-...

billetto.co.uk

Stack and St Bride Foundation uncover 300 years of magazine evolution

What is a magazine? How did we end up with the things we know as magazines today? And how are the m...

232

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We're hosting a big day of magazines on 18 Sept, drawing on 300 years of publishing history to shed fresh light on the role of print magazines today. You should come! Both in-person and digital tickets are available, so you can join in wherever you are. sbf.org.uk/whats-on/vie...

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Amazing – thanks very much! I didn't see a Bluesky link on the NYRF site so didn't even bother searching for a handle here. The magazine looks brilliant – I hope some copies will make it over to the UK at some point...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's not often that I screengrab an email to put it on here, but this one is worth it. Welcome, New York Review of Finance, cousin of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

274

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Commentators are queuing up to tell you that reading is dead, and our societies are falling apart as a result. We decided to see if we could sketch in some of the detail that's getting lost amongst the headlines – see our full report, on the Stack site now. stackmagazines.com/update/the-s...

stackmagazines.com

The Stack reading habits report - STACK magazines

See the results from our 2026 survey, created to understand people's reading habits, and how they feel about reading

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pencil Magazine laying down the law with Steve Heller: "We accept any pencil—4H, 4B, HB, etc.—and we do not have a preference for either mechanical or standard pencils. We don’t accept work created with charcoal, water-soluble graphite pencils or colored pencils." www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

printmag.com

The Daily Heller: Getting the Lead In – PRINT Magazine

'Pencil Magazine' is a must-have.

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"We're not Vogue!" Mother Tongue founders and editors Natalia Rachlin and Melissa Goldstein share their indie approach to working with celebrity cover stars. See our full conversation on the Stack site... stackmagazines.com/women/the-ev...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Thanks very much John! And good luck with getting that next issue out into the world. I was reading The Hobbit to my 8-year-old last night and I thought of you

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"Nobody appointed me to this job..." Lots of independent magazine makers have to deal with this anxiety, because they became the boss just by starting the magazine. John Power Jr is editor of @wyrdscience.bsky.social and he shares his thoughts on the Stack podcast: stackmagazines.com/art-design/w...

030

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just coming to terms with the realisation that next week we'll lose a 25-week writing streak on Beehiiv. I'm sad to be closing The Mortar, but I didn't realise how much I care about that little hexagon.

100

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Six months ago we started The Mortar as an independent publishing experiment, and today we're bringing it to a close. Thanks very much to everyone who was part of it – here's what we learned along the way... stackmagazines.com/update/closi...

stackmagazines.com

Closing The Mortar - STACK magazines

Some thoughts on six months of The Mortar magazine, and why it's time to close our independent publishing experiment

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Imagine a magazine all about sandwiches..." Nancy Heley is editor and creative director of Sandweegies, and in the new Stack podcast she explains how she ended up making a magazine all about the sandwiches in her adopted home city. stackmagazines.com/food-drink/g...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ah brilliant - really glad you like it! Thanks very much for being part of our club

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Editor and creative director Austė Skrupskytė Cullbrand says Playground magazine is leaning into its the Nordic and Baltic identity to differentiate itself on newsstands around the world. See our full conversation: stackmagazines.com/art-design/n...

020

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Have you told us how you read? (Or don't read?) Our reading habits survey closes at midnight on Sunday – we'd love to hear from you! form.typeform.com/to/eZI5QF6i

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Is it true that nobody reads these days? Take our survey so we can get a better idea of how people do or don't read, and how they feel about it. (Also, leave your email address at the end and you could win a year of Stack magazines...) form.typeform.com/to/eZI5QF6i

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In the new episode of the Stack podcast Andy Crysell, editor of No Way Back magazine, speaks about the massive potential for learning from the music and subcultures of the past, and the importance of avoiding nostalgia. stackmagazines.com/music/a-firs...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join us on Thursday night next week for a conversation with @countyhwy.bsky.social managing editor Ryan Basemann. We'll be talking small town America, publishing beyond politics, and the allure of the 19th-century newspaper. stack-county-highway.eventbrite.co.uk

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"It's kind of the antithesis of the endless scroll, and that feels really important..." In our new episode of the Stack podcast, the editors of Folding Rock magazine speak about the value of print in a digital age stackmagazines.com/literature/f...

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Nope, arts jobs don't exist really." Finlay Mackay, editor of Piscine magazine, on the shock of graduating from arts school and starting to work in restaurant kitchens, and how the magazine became a response to the situation stackmagazines.com/art-design/p...

010

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"If you build your business on social media, it doesn't really encourage creative exploration..." Chris Hassell explains why he and @joshjoshjones.bsky.social decided to make Ralph, a print magazine led by "creativity and joy" stackmagazines.com/humour/ralph...

011

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The latest Debris magazine is themed 'No!', tapping into a general sense of dissatisfaction in the air. In the new episode of the Stack podcast, the editors explain how they used the most negative word in the English language to make something positive stackmagazines.com/race/debris-...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yes, Easter is next week. And yes, that means it's time for our half-price subscription offer. Get three months of Stack at 50% of our normal prices – offer ends at midnight on Easter Monday. stackmagazines.com/update/half-...

stackmagazines.com

Half-price independent magazine subscription - STACK magazines

001

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hear our independent magazines event, recorded live at the St Bride Foundation and featuring stories from @thefence.bsky.social Die Quieter Please, @dispatchmedia.bsky.social and Piscine stackmagazines.com/literature/i...

032

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In the new episode of the Stack podcast I spoke with editors Hillary Brenhouse and Meara Sharma, and heard how Elastic magazine is stretching the definition of psychedelic, creating something that's, "ordinary, only slightly, weirdly, off" stackmagazines.com/art-design/e...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We supply independent cafes across the UK with free magazines for their customers to read, and we want to do more! If you run an independent cafe, fill in our form and we'll start sending great publishing your way... stackmagazines.com/update/disco...

stackmagazines.com

Discovering independent magazines across the UK - STACK magazines

We're expanding our project working with independent venues across the UK, helping more people to discover independent magazines

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Gabriel Solomons, editor and art director of Beneficial Shock, on the passion that drives his independent movie magazine stackmagazines.com/film/illustr...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"Carrier issue two, apart from my children, it's the best thing I've brought into the world." Hear our full conversation with Carrier editor Tom Parr, on the new episode of the Stack podcast stackmagazines.com/outdoors/car...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What's the point of a fashion magazine today? Come to our event on 4 March to hear the ideas and motivations behind three of the most disruptive fashion titles you'll find on the shelves. stack-ravensbourne.eventbrite.co.uk

stack-ravensbourne.eventbrite.co.uk

Material Worlds – Fashion in Print

Three independent publishers speak about the role that fashion plays in their magazines

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Really glad you like it Ian!

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"What if there were no rules, no templates? What if we just went wild?" Chris Harrigan, editor of The Story, speaks about escaping the confines of literary publishing stackmagazines.com/literature/s...

000

Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I have to go out in five minutes so I'm going to miss the start of the first @offalindustries.bsky.social live stream. Hopefully back before the end of @drblacklock.bsky.social doing his bit... www.youtube.com/live/9mj_dOw...

youtube.com

OFFALISM 001 (Pilot)

YouTube video by Offal Industries

000