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What is a magazine? -- Rethinking the magazine -- Reinventing genres -- Design x content -- Print x digital.

The last ten years of magazine publishing have been a period of rapid innovation, providing a vital record of the era's diverse visual trends. The modern magazine features the best editorial design, looking in particular at how magazines have adapted to respond to digital media. Encompassing mainstream and independent publishing, and graphic and editorial design, The modern magazine explores the issues now facing the industry, examining changes to the basic discipline of combining text and image for the global, Internet-savvy consumer.