Extra! Extra! 7 newspapers we loved in July

It's July, so you may be imminently turning on your out-of-office. But before you vanish into the sun, here's a stack of newspapers worth a look!

Glastonbury wasn’t the only festival this month – Printed Festival brought the print-loving crowds to Cardiff, with a bilingual mini programme to guide the way. We also teamed up with Stack Magazines to turn an online essay on the so-called death of print into – naturally – a printed zine. And filmmaker Jonny Mowat marked a new chapter in his career with a fresh portfolio. Keep scrolling for more creative highlights in July.

Ace issue

Published just in time for Wimbledon, OFF COURT is a collaboration between Italian sportswear brand Ellesse and The Second Serve, a tennis media company and publisher of OPEN magazine. The first issue, printed on our traditional broadsheets, explores Ellesse’s brand heritage through archival imagery and vintage ads. Copies were served up at Shreeji News in Marylebone alongside espressos:

Hello, Stockport!

Exra! Extra! Stockport has a new community creative space! To launch Stockroom and its very first programme, the team made a friendly newspaper featuring stories from local artists and a packed calendar of events. Designed with StudioDBD and printed on our traditional tabloids, the team says it was an "accessible and environmentally friendly" way to spread the word.

It's aliiiiive!

When someone says “print is dead,” Stack Magazines founder Steve Watson has a few things to show them. Last year, he published The Real Death of Print on the Stack blog – a thoughtful look at how smaller, experimental projects are reshaping publishing. As soon as we read it, we knew it should be a newspaper.

We partnered with Stack to print 500 digital minis, designed by Alice and Harry at Studio Ground Floor, with an RGB colour palette in a nod to the essay’s digital origins. Free copies went to creative venues around the UK this spring. Most are gone now (sorry!) but you can still read the essay online. After all, as Steve puts it: "It’s not a case of print versus digital, but more the two of them working together to reach people and connect with them." Hear, hear!

Portfolio, Part Two

Glasgow-based creative Jonny Mowat first printed a portfolio with us in 2017, when he was a fresh-faced engineering graduate – it helped him land his first design job!

"The only way I had a chance to stand out was to do something so wacky, so quirked up, so steezed out with the sauce – and so I printed my portfolio on NEWSPRINT!"

Earlier this year, we caught his talk about his mid-career crisis and wondered if it was time for him to refresh his portfolio as he transitions to his new role as filmmaker. So we offered him 20 copies of our digital tabloids to make it happen. Flip through the delightful printed result on Instagram!

Pottery pages

Heath Ceramics has been making beautiful, functional pottery in California since 1948. Now they’re sharing what inspires them in Make Good, a new zine series printed on our traditional tabloids. The first issue celebrates craft and heritage, with a centre-fold poster showing how Heath’s designs have remained timeless over seven decades.

"A newspaper allows for both focused reading and a fun, tactile experience."

“The format allows us to be playful with our design and layout, and complements the down-to-earth-ness of the content,” says Anna Carollo, associate creative director at Heath. “It’s been a natural entry point into conversations. Handing it out at events I heard reactions like, ‘I love zines!’”

Flip side

One newspaper, two editions! For the second year in a row, Printed Festival used our minis to create a bilingual programme for their annual celebration of print in Cardiff. One side is in English, then you flip it over for the Welsh version. How do you say “genius design” in Welsh?

Classified material

London-based designer Dom Baker tagged us in a LinkedIn post that started: “Tired of cold emails and inbox black holes, I decided to take a different approach to finding new design opportunities...”

Dom used our digital tabloids to print retro-style classified ads, then tore them out by hand for an authentic, rough-edged look (that’s the attention to detail you want in a designer!) We think it’s a brilliant way to stand out in a job search. Best of luck, Dom!

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