Format Magazine

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Redesign of an independent magazine about design, culture and the printed page.

Editorial

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2025

woman in white dress sitting on couch

Overview

Client

Format Publishing

Year

2025

Role

Art direction, Editorial design

Scope

Editorial, Identity

Team

Elsa Mori, Sara Lind

Format had grown issue by issue without a clear system. The redesign introduced a strict twelve-column grid, two typefaces and a set of recurring editorial devices.

The result is a magazine that feels consistent from cover to colophon, while every issue still has room for surprise.

A hand holding a brochure against a dark green pleated curtain
grayscale photo of person reading book

(A)

Opening spread of the feature section.

A person holding a book in their hands

(B)

Cover of issue 24.

grayscale photo of person using ipad

(C)

Typographic detail from the index pages.

a person holding a photo of a house
woman in white dress sitting on couch

Detail

Folios, captions and footnotes share one small size. Hierarchy comes from position, not from weight.

(Client)

“The redesign made every issue easier to make and harder to put down.”

“The redesign made every issue easier to make and harder to put down.”

Lotte Jansen, Editor-in-chief at Format

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