Today we bring you nothing more and nothing less than some of the crown jewels in terms of editorial design. They are not magazines that you will find in dentist's waiting rooms, and even in some cases, or in newsstands. We are going to teach you some sample magazine layouts, a collection of the world's best designed magazines.
In this list, you will find a series of magazines, which will serve as reference and inspiration when creating hierarchies, layouts, treatment of both images and typography, the good use of spaces, etc.
best magazine layouts
In this section we will list the best magazine designs out there today on the streets and the digital world.
TEAM
TIME magazine is one of the publications most popular worldwide, is a magazine with an impressive graphic history. One of the most characteristic elements of the publication is the style of its covers, where the characters in the central part of the cover and the elements around them stand out.
Inside the magazine is a good graphic structure and a very extensive and perfectly worked textual content, in addition to infographic designs, illustrations, etc.
CEREALS
We talk about a modern magazine specialized in lifestyle, you can find anything from a cooking recipe, an interior design report, to an article on baroque architecture.
Cereal, is known for being a very clean and very visual publication, it would be the typical magazine that we leave on the shelf because it's nice. It presents a very elegant editorial design, impeccably treated photos that are the protagonists of many full pages, as well as careful white space. A magazine that exudes design from its four corners.
Jot down
Jot Down includes more than 300 pages between its covers, it would be considered almost a book. The style that characterizes the magazine is the use of black and white and a design reflected throughout the edition.
The post with minimalist style, has a very careful layout, the most powerful infographics in terms of design, pictograms that will leave you with your mouth open and such an elegant style that is why Jot Down is on this list as one of the best magazine designs.
Metropolis
In this case we are talking about Metropoli, it is the leisure and culture supplement offered by the newspaper, El Mundo, so you can have this one at the kiosks.
Rodrigo Sánchez is the editorial designer at the wheel of this publication, most characteristic of them is the way in which their covers blend in with the main theme that is going to be treated.
Forbes
Who does not know or has ever heard of the world's best-known business magazine. Forbes arrived in Spain around 2013, and since then it has been one of the most purchased magazines on newsstands.
The design of this magazine is characteristic for the use of capital letters and small text boxes on their covers, which are already part of their hallmark. Inside, we can find photographs treated with great care, typography games such as news titles, decoration in the text blocks, different color palettes, etc.
Elephant
In this case we are talking about a arts and culture publication, which first appeared in 2009. Elephant is published every three months, and is distributed throughout Europe as well as other places such as China, Korea, Japan, USA and Canada.
Elephant, is unmistakable for its quality and care in the elaboration of the models, the use of blank spaces is incredible, in addition to all the treatment and design that it has inside.
Tapas
Tapas is a magazine on gastronomy and restaurant trends, dedicated to those who are called foodies, to lovers of good food. It belongs to the same group as the one we have seen previously, Forbes magazine, to the Spainmedia group.
Tapas, is a publication in which a bold, fun style shines with impeccable editorial design. It has a version in Spanish and another international.
Panenka
It was about time that sports publications left behind such an outdated style, magazines like Panenka have opened the doors to design within their pages. It is a magazine, in which we can find football stories that do not appear in the big newspapers or on the television news, all wrapped in an editorial design of the best quality.
Novelty
For many years, this publication has served as inspiration to two sectors such as graphic design and international advertising. Novum, is a magazine that is published monthly and which shows the best of contemporary design, illustration, photography, corporate design, among other fields.
cartography
Born in 2016 in Milan, this magazine is among the travel publications, among its pages we can see photographs that invite us to travel, in addition to offering us different itineraries around the planet.
Each one of the copies with a similar density, close to 300 pages, Cartography, invites us to each one of the destinations that it shows us, through a introductory text, a map with coordinates and a complete report of photographs.
MacGuffin
Awarded in 2016, as one of the best magazines of the year. This post It is based on an everyday object and dissects it as if it were an episode of Bones.
The designer Sandra Kassenaar is in charge of combine the best in contemporary editorial design on each of its pages, in which large texts appear, generally divided into columns, with a wide variety of full-bleed or double-page images.
So far our selection of best magazine designs today, surely we have left some, so do not hesitate to write us which is the best magazine design for you, which one serves as a reference for your editorial design projects.