Magazines of the Week 29th September 2023

COPY – Issue 1

Hard to believe, but this entire magazine has been created by AI. 🧡

‘This is COPY MAGAZINE – the world’s first AI fashion magazine. It embodies human creativity and technological progress, illustrating the limitless potential that emerges when imagination and technology match.

Creative Director Carl-Axel Wahlström embarked on a collaborative journey with generative artificial intelligence. Every prompt and image featured in the magazine mirrors Carl-Axel’s imagination, presenting not only apparel but also a narrative of style and originality. This underscores the idea that this technology doesn’t aim to replace human imagination; instead, it enriches and amplifies it.

The outcome redefines the landscape of creative partnerships, showcasing how the synergy between human ideas and AI technology can revolutionize and inspire innovative creations. This exemplifies the transformative power of innovation, marking the first chapter of an imaginative narrative that challenges our perception of reality.’

We Jazz – Issue 9: Oisters

Latest issue of We Jazz hit the shelves this week. 💜

“We Jazz Magazine is a quarterly journal of new stories about creative music. Published by the Helsinki-based label We Jazz, the magazine sheds light on often rarely featured artists, events and topics across the spectrum of creative music, both topical and historical. In addition to articles, the magazine includes album reviews plus notes on live events, books, design, etc.”

This latest issue pays tribute to African-American pianist Jason Moran, a profile on Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel label, interviews with Swedish bassist Peter Eldh, alto saxophonist Darius Jones, and trumpet player Robyn Steward, and an overview of the life of Panamanian-American saxophonist Carlos Garnett. 💜

FACT – Issue 5

Been a big fan of @jonrafman for some time now so very excited to see him in the latest issue of FACT. ❤️‍🔥

‘Based at London’s 180 Studios, Fact is a multimedia platform championing the global movement of electronic art. Fact incorporates a print magazine, exhibition programme, production studio and audiovisual channel.’

This issue is an art and gaming special. Contains work from Rafman who recently exhibited at the 180 studios. Also features Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Theo Triantafyllidis, Hans Ulrich-Obrist and more.

Part gloss and part rough matt paper, this whole new redesign contains 212 pages + 2 fold outs.

Grab this on our website now, we have the Rafman cover and the Gabriel Moses covers available, please email before ordering if you have a preference. ❤️‍🔥

Errant Journal Issue 5 – Learning from ancestors.

Brand new to the shelves here at Unique we have Errant Journal.

‘Errant Journal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant´s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of centers, linearity, roots and dichotomy. Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable.

By being a ´journal´ we mimic the academic standard, while our content aims to stretch the limits of how knowledge is ‘officially’ and ‘correctly’ produced. Different Englishes, academic and embodied knowledge, intuition and the poetic all find their place on our pages. Although our background is in art, we do not see art as a special or separate category of human knowledge and production but rather as one of many options to consider our worlds. Our journal therefore plays on the phonetic of an errant journey: a kind of wandering that is neither aimless nor directed at a clear goal or on a well defined path.’

Book size and full of contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice.

Acne Paper – Issue 18 💕

The new issue of Acne Paper is created around the idea of a house with a fantasy collection of furniture, art and objects. Not unlike the ballroom scene of the houses of New York and the stage performances of the opera houses of the world, there is a great sense of theatre under our roof. Each room is brimming with talent, knowledge, ideas and conversations. The house of Acne Paper has nine rooms and a garden: ten chapters which features a photographic story by some of the most exciting image makers of today. Behind every door there is a conversation, an informal interview with ten remarkable people from the world of art, design, architecture, performance, literature and interiors. To furnish our imaginary house we have been searching through time and place for the unique: from the most interesting pieces by contemporary designers, to iconic items in the history of decorative arts, from surreal objets d’art, to ancient antiques and invaluable masterworks.

The Gentlewoman – No.28

Chaka Khan looking like an absolute Queen on the cover of the new Gentlewoman ❤️‍🔥

‘The Gentlewoman celebrates modern women of style and purpose. Its fabulous biannual magazine offers a fresh and intelligent perspective on fashion that’s focused on personal style – the way women actually look, think and dress. Featuring ambitious journalism and photography of the highest quality, it showcases inspirational women through its distinctive combination of glamour, personality and warmth. These qualities are also at the heart of its website, thegentlewoman.com, a virtual place where real women, real events and real things are enjoyed.’

Also featured in this issue:
Lydia West
Cathy Horyn
Maggi Hambling
Lydia Ko
Alia Shawkat

NOĒMA – No.4 Fall 2023 💚

‘In ancient Greek, noēma means “thinking” or the “object of thought.” And that is our intention: to delve deeply into the critical issues transforming the world today, at length and with historical context, in order to illuminate new pathways of thought in a way not possible through the immediacy of daily media. Noēma publishes essays, interviews, reportage, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. In doing so, our unique approach is to get out of the usual lanes and cross disciplines, social silos and cultural boundaries.’