Wallpaper*, ‘The Handmade Issue’


For Wallpaper*’s forthcoming August issue (The Handmade Issue) the magazine is encouraging its readers to design their own bespoke cover using a nifty online design-it-yourself application.

Users of the app will be able to play around (rotate, resize and colour or pattern) a host of shapes, illustrations and typographic assets supplied by James Joyce, The Hort, Anthony Burrill, Kam Tang, and Nigel Robinson.

Our minds boggle at the mere thought of the logistical wizardry that Wallpaper* must have masterminded to be able to promise to print, bind and deliver a copy of the magazine sporting the appropriately self-designed cover to each user / subscriber…  Here are some examples!

Read the original blog post here on Creative Review.

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