Kon Paper Magazine by Julia Hell |
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| DESIGN NAME: Kon Paper PRIMARY FUNCTION: Magazine INSPIRATION: The magazine was founded the project together with Pia Lobodzinski in 2015. Pia and Julia graduated from high school together. A few years after graduation, they both wanted to start a project together again. Pia had just started studying literature and Julia had graduated as a graphic designer. So the foundation of a magazine was almost obvious. For the look and feel of the magazine the constantly growing and lively self-publishing scene and a variety of exciting and unseen magazines were the source of inspiration. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: kon Paper is a magazine for literature and culture. The design and layout explores the boundaries of different texts and text forms. In three genres – essay, feuilleton and wortkunst – the known reading environments for the texts are questioned and sometimes brought into new contexts. The submitted texts are accompanied by illustrations, for which we collaborate with changing artists. The magazine was redesigned in 2020 and in the course of this, the format was adjusted as well as paper and a solid binding. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The first six issues of the magazine were printed on newspaper paper in the Berliner format. This made the product fragile and after reading it cover to cover it was basically destroyed. The magazine was completely revised and redesigned in 2020. In the course of this, the format was adapted as well as paper and a firm binding. The goal was to get a product that was sustainable and long lasting so that our readership would keep the magazines on their bookshelves. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project was founded 2015 in Munich. Today the editorial team works form Munich, Berlin and Switzerland. The design work is done from Julia Hells Berlin-based studio. The project is ongoing releasing one issue per year. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The magazine is printed on eco friendly recycling paper (Vivus 100) with 90 grams per square meter for the content pages and 250 grams per square meter for the cover. Using sustainable ink, the whole magazine is now much more environmentally friendly then before the relaunch. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The format of the magazine is 220 x 275 mm and contains 52 pages including the cover pages. We print on Vivus recycled paper. The inner part is 90g/m2 and the cover is 250g/m2. The booklet is bound with two staples through the spine. We cooperate with a printing company that focuses on sustainability. The printing inks are also environmentally friendly. TAGS: Magazine, Mage, Zine, Editorial, Layout, Illustration, Literature, Print RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Bi-weekly staff meetings are used to talk about the text entries and also the design and illustration concepts for each issue. There is a lot of feedback in input from the teammates that come for a non-design perspective. That this is one of the most fruitful ways to design a good product: Talking to the recipients and people who have a different perspective of the product. CHALLENGE: Rethinking the new format. Previously printed in the Berlin newspaper format - one page is over A3 in size. Now the magazine has 220 x 275mm. A long essay had around 20,000 characters including spaces. That means four full pages in the new layout. So in addition to the design, there was also the huge challenge to throw our learned concepts overboard and completely reorganize the editorial work. ADDED DATE: 2022-03-18 15:50:37 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Illustrator: Carmen Reina IMAGE CREDITS: Julia Hell, 2021. |
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NAME: [kɔn] Paper e.V. PROFILE: [kɔn] is an up-and-coming magazine for literature and culture. The concept: Take a single word, have it reinterpreted by professors, poets, and free thinkers of all stripes with clever poems, exciting short stories, scholarly essays, and journalistic reviews. Then refine the whole thing with some wonderful illustrations and the result is a magazine that not only looks super chic, but also, quite incidentally, questions the border spaces of writing and form, writing and visuality, and language itself in an extremely entertaining way. The texts are accompanied by an illustrative concept throughout the whole issue. |
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Kon Paper Magazine by Julia Hell is Winner in Print and Published Media Design Category, 2021 - 2022.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Julia Hell. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Julia Hell. |
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