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Elin Hart
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Editorial

Margin Quarterly

A redesign of an independent arts and culture magazine, giving long reads and photography equal weight.

An open magazine with black-and-white photography lying in soft window light.
Client
Margin Publishing
Year
2024
Role
Art direction and editorial design
Services
  • Editorial design
  • Art direction
  • Typography
  • Print production

Case study

The brief

After eight years in print, Margin had collected three different grids, a dozen typefaces and a cover that changed every issue. The editors asked for a redesign that would feel unmistakably theirs on a crowded newsstand while giving writers and photographers more room.

The approach

We built the new Margin around a single twelve-column grid and two typefaces, then spent most of our time on the white space between them. Long reads open with a full spread of photography, essays run in a wide single column, and a slim reviews section closes each issue with a denser, newspaper-like rhythm.

  • A cover system built on one constant masthead and a rotating photographic crop
  • Templates for features, essays, interviews and reviews
  • Paper and print specifications developed with a Copenhagen printer

The outcome

The redesigned issue sold out its first print run in three weeks, and Margin was shortlisted for a Nordic editorial design prize the following spring.