7 newspapers to inspire you in September

Summer days, drifting away...but it's not over yet! We’ve got a batch of colour-packed newspapers to see the season out. This month Yuk Fun turned our tabloids into a colouring book, Riverhead Books brought its digital newsletter to life in print and photographer Alexandrena Parker hit the streets of Berlin (and London and Paris) with a broadsheet portfolio. Keep scrolling for more inspiring creative projects as we head into September.

Guten tag, Germany!

After 14 years behind the camera, photographer Alexandrena Parker is using our broadsheets to introduce her work to agencies and producers in Germany, where she’s now represented in Berlin. Designed with Jim Parry, the format gives her portfolio more presence – “the novelty of opening a broadsheet with both hands makes the experience more memorable” than a digital version, she says. 

"It’s a tactile, playful piece designed to spark engagement and reflect the energy of my work,” says Alexandrena, who is bringing the newspaper as she travels around Paris, Berlin and London (first stop: Jolene bakery, above!)

Plot twist

Riverhead Books has launched a print edition of its digital newsletter with The Eddy, a broadsheet packed with behind-the-scenes content, literary brain-teasers and more from one of publishing’s most distinctive imprints. It was a full-team effort, with editors, marketers, publicists, cover artists and designers all contributing.

"We can’t say enough good things about Newspaper Club! Appreciate their sustainability efforts and can’t wait to work with them again."

“We wanted to move beyond algorithms and create a beautiful, tangible piece readers could cherish away from screens,” says Nora Alice Demick, Director of Marketing. The response was immediate: 700 requests in the first round and copies stocked in 50+ bookstores, with overwhelmingly positive feedback on making the leap to print.

Drawn to print

Lucy Cheung and Patrick Gildersleeves say they "just like making things." It’s a modest way to describe their work at Yuk Fun, where a typical day might mean screen printing fabrics, sewing them into clothes by hand, making risograph posters or illustrating for brands like Adobe and Arket. This month they somehow found time to make a newspaper, too!

We offered them 50 copies of our digital tabloids and they created a colouring book in their unmistakable style. You can watch the whole thing come to life over on Instagram.

Pour over pages

Another literary project comes from Wild Plum, an independent bookshop in California wine country that has just launched its own wine (naturally!) They worked with designed by Holiday Studio to design a mini newspaper featuring reading recommendations, playlists and tips for the perfect summer soirée.

“The format lent itself beautifully to the style of the piece,” says Wild Plum owner Elyse Chambers. “I’m in love!" Copies are sold in-store and slipped into wine shipments as a surprise, a pairing customers have loved.

Pop-up posters

This summer, SIPS Studio worked with ASICS on A Journey to Comfort, a five-part series of pop-ups in Paris, London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam exploring movement, food and connection.

Each stop had its own broadsheet poster in a different colour for guests to take home. The one here is from the Copenhagen event, a collaboration with chef and fermentation expert David Zilber and farmers Jeppe and Jesper Andersen of Birkemosgaard.

First (birthday) edition

To mark the first birthday of her Glasgow lifestyle shop This Must Be The Place, Clare Nicolson made a mini newspaper celebrating the products, people and dogs (hi Cosmo!) that make the shop special. Inside are interviews with artists and makers whose work is on the shelves, plus a recipe for fish tacos. Take a peek inside Clare's bright, beautiful shop in her video about making the newspaper.

"The small size is so cute and perfect for customers to pop in their bag at the counter!"

Details, details

For their wedding in Cape Cod, Zach Castagnola and Jackie Munroe made a mini newspaper that mixed the practical with the personal – the day’s schedule and menu alongside family tributes, a crossword and spreads sharing details behind what both bride and groom wore. Those pages pulled out touches like Zach’s boutonniere, made with a 1900s wax flower taken from the dress Jackie used to upcycle her handmade headpiece.

“It was so fun finding ways to fill each spread and including our handwriting throughout gave it the perfect personalized touch,” says Zach. “Our guests loved the zine and appreciated all the personal details we put in."

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