Stack Magazines

9 stories

Stack MagazinesType two fun with Like the Wind magazine Simon and Julie Freeman, founders of Like the Wind magazine, speak about the pain, sacrifice, and pleasure of independent publishing

October 9

Stack MagazinesReading Magazines event overview Take a look back at our Reading Magazines event, held at the St Bride Foundation as part of London Design Festival 2026

September 22

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

September 11

Stack MagazinesIt’s Freezing in LA! magazine is back in the fight Jackson Howarth, editor of It's Freezing in LA magazine, shares his thoughts on taking over the independent magazine about the climate crisis

August 28

Stack MagazinesMagazines at London Design Festival For London Design Festival we're bringing together publishers, historians and academics, to talk about what it means to make magazines today

July 30

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

July 22

Stack MagazinesThe evolution of Mother Tongue magazine Watch our Magazine Club evening with Natalia Rachlin and Melissa Goldstein, editors and founders of Mother Tongue magazine

July 7

Stack MagazinesWyrd Science magazine is levelling up Hear our podcast conversation with John Power Jr, editor and publisher of tabletop gaming magazine Wyrd Science

July 3

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

June 23

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo