Frankie Magazine

Frankie magazine is a:

Design / Art / Photography / Fashion / Travel / Music / Craft / Home and Life magazine. 

Basically this magazine has a lot of worthy content for my contextual piece of work. I love this print magazine. I think the main reason for this love is again, it's in print. I think being able to create a print based book / magazine or comic is something magical. To be able to go out and see your own creation on sale in shops would be a joy. I also believe that print is best.

Print has a niche market, I believe that maybe not many people still buy magazines anymore, that they get them digitally to their Apple or Android devices these days, which is a shame. 

I think that printed works should be there to be cherished and to be looked at in the hands of the creator. 

With the Frankie magazine, it's a stunning magazine. It looks so aesthetic because of the pastel colours, the cover also looks really beautiful, like that of an illustration. To me, it looks like the work in "Big Eyes" which the artist is Margret Keane. 

The issue that I have is pictured above, and this is the 67 Issue and this magazine cost £6.99 in the UK. It may cost a lot however, print magazines are usually dear in price you can pay up to a tenner for a really good, beautifully designed printed magazine.

Like that of Cereal.

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Every magazine or copy comes with one of two collectable art cards featuring cuteness from talented illustrator ladies Ana Albero and Ashley Ronning. 

This is Frankie’s first-ever fiction special, with stories from their young local writers featuring: Abigail Ulman, Favel Parrett, Nic Low, Ellen van Neerven and Alice Pung.

In the magazine they also input some pretty photos from the most floral-y place on Earth, a brief history of hand gestures (both rude and also non-rude), and an abundance of Australian abstract art. 

There are motherly musings from The Grates’ Patience Hodgson, dispatches from a country that might disappear under the sea in 50 years time, and also a chat with a lady who can make books by hand! Which sounds so incredible.

 There is also 15 handy and hygienic and unfortunate non-drinking, uses for vodka, non-sucky cards for sucky occasions, a beginner’s guide to heavy metal, fashion inspired by the most important meal of the day, David Bowie-themed craft, one disturbing reference to The NeverEnding Story and a hipster bison. Plus all the usual laughs, art, craft, travel and design goodness.

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This magazine is a true divine design haven, and it is quite full of useful design based goodness. 

My favourite page within this magazine is on page 117, where it is a young woman who has created her own comic book store. Her shop is called Junky Comics and is basically 'a little comic book store that specialises in alternative comic books, zines, and art books sources both locally and from further afield.' – I think that it's a beautiful way for a young woman to promote her work and showcase her company to many people.