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I love a fun and vibrant publication, and Lucky Peach magazine delivers on all levels. Filled with foody goodness, articles on Mother Nature and well-executed editorial design, this magazine ticks all the right boxes.
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People
often use the term “never judge a book by its cover” but how can you not in
this case?! A brave black background coated with little veggies and animals
entice you in, you want to turn the page, you need to know what awaits your
eyes. The person responsible for our eye-feast is illustrator Stacy Rozich
(pronounced “ROSE-ITCH” as stated in her Instagram bio) Her hand painted works
are inspired by her travels and childhood memories, all whipped up with some
culture and tradition.
The
contents page. Okay so I’m going to let you in on a little secret, I love
contents pages, and I love them even more if they are visually sound. The
typographic hierarchy here is lovely; big page numbers accompanied with
sans-serif bolded titles and a serif caption tie it all in. Plants circulate
the page, in which illustrator Armando Veve is responsible - He’s the man for
the job if you want two-tone, detailed images.
“Smells
Like Green Spirit” nice catchy header, I like it. This article on plant smells
(just read it okay) sets the scene for the layout of the articles to come. A
neat 3 column grid with drop caps in a sans-serif font – as apposed to a serif
which the body is made of, delivers a playful yet ordered feel to the articles.
Also, check out that header typeface! I love it! It has a disorderly manner about
it and I am digging it. This font is plastered all through this publication,
but I have noticed that there are two versions of it. The header font’s style
features a very circular counter for the letter “O”, yet the subheading’s style
features more of a rounded rectangle shaped counter, like that of a running
track. Enjoyable geometric illustrations by Raymond Biesinger.
This
cute plant themed comic is composed over 5 spreads. It tells a sweet tale of a
wife filling her new home with plants and maybe getting a bit carried away with
it all. I happened to have already discovered the woman responsible for this doodly goodness a few months ago, she is Lisa Hanawalt,
and loves to draw animals as apposed to humans. She is the co-producer and production designer of a Netflix series named
“BoJack Horseman” which y’all should check out.
Many
many CITRUS FRUITS. Colorful? Check. White space? Check. Am I salivating?
Check. A lovely title spread for a lovely orange packed article. Oh and its
that nice type again! (If anyone knows what it is, comment below, I need it in
my font library)
With photography by Laura Braun (Check her work out, its kind of sedative and whimsical) this is a title spread to a BIG article on BIG veg. I appreciate the 2 images per page idea along with the BIG type that complements the theme of the piece.
“Happy Ending” I just really like the coloured header accompanied with the overlay of fruit. Also notice the sunset gradient applied on the subheading? Nice one Lucky Peach.
A grid demonstrating
the stages of permissions drying out. Neat, good flow and an orange colour
palette - a polite layout.
So many tasty recipes! This 5(.5) page spread contains dynamic and veg filled foods. The design of the recipe pages is somewhat unique. The information is not contained to one page per meal, they bleed over into the next with a colour segregating one from the other. Speaking of colour, a pastel palette is in play; yellow, green, blue and pink run through the recipes. Teeny illustrations by Helen Tseng are dotted between the text.
Psychedelic
meets traditional with Matt Panuska’s illustration style. He’s also created a
groovy title piece for this article to accompany his editorial pieces.
Notice the switch in the letter “O”, this demonstrates the two versions I stated above. A hefty title expands over the two pages, along with Rachel Levit’s work. All is tied together with the same width of title and image.
This is the introduction to the Blood Sugar article, and an introduction it is to. Drop caps are applied to the first two words, which follows with a body of the same font in a smaller point size. One thing this magazine does well is its typography; the variants of sizes and font style all work when normally, they shouldn’t. I salute ye, editorial team.
Now we come to
some adventurous ice cream recipes! The actual ice cream is paired with its
main ingredient in the articles photography, adding some quirk.
A lively leafy
type, with a lively leafy banner, lovely.
Ditching the
white page for a bit of black, this tofu article has an oriental feel. Instead
of going for a conventionally white type on black, the headers are in yellow
that matches the palette of the photographs.
In the details...
I hope you have
enjoyed my little review as much as I enjoyed reading the magazine!
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