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Works in Progress Print

Launching the physical edition of a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world.

Works in Progress in print is a thoughtfully crafted magazine that brings bold ideas and stories of progress to life on paper. Designed to engage readers beyond the screen, it combines in-depth essays with data visualisations, charts and striking illustrations that visualise innovation and development. The print edition offers a tactile, immersive reading experience, with layouts optimised for clarity, legibility, and a sense of narrative flow that complements the forward-thinking content.

The Brief

We were tasked with transforming Works in Progress from a purely digital publication into a compelling print magazine, focusing on the unique demands of physical media. This required a thoughtful approach to legibility, ensuring typography, layout, and spacing were optimised for the tactile experience of reading in print, where screen-based design conventions don’t always translate. 

The Solution

Designing for print allowed us to explore tweaks to the established typographic hierarchy and chart formatting, nuanced use of white space, and pacing that guides the reader more deliberately. To bring the theme of progress to life, we created bespoke in-house illustrations that explicitly visualise ideas of development and change, adding an ever-changing element that complements the written content and reinforces the magazine’s ethos.

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Colour Palette & Visual Messaging

Cover Illustrations

The cover illustrations give each issue of the magazine an individual look and spine colour. The illustrations are designed to show the present vs. a vision of the abundant future—where the possibilities are revealed by a "progressed" version of the cover illustration featured inside the issue.

Inside the magazine

Editorial layouts are straightforward, neat and clean so readers can dive into the content from numerous places.