PAVEMENTS

My magazine stack.

I have two favorite magazines. Wallpaper has all the clever, geeky things I like. I read it cover to cover to cover to cover. It’s a smart magazine, a smart-alecky magazine at that, with its snooty tone and all, which is fine, just right even, because IT IS WALLPAPER. I read it and my brain is happy. Elle Decoration UK is my other favorite magazine, because it’s beautiful and inspiring and makes my heart happy. One of the recent issues of American Elle Decor has Courtney Cox’s home, where she has a commissioned artwork of a human-sized Penguin book cover hanging on a wall. The book cover was blue. I was very jealous. I don’t have my own issues of Elle Decor or Elle Decoration UK though, because I can’t find any at Booksale! :( Well, we do have subscriptions at the office, so that’s cool, but I am recently coming to realize that I can’t properly read magazines that aren’t my own, maybe because I’ve always felt that magazines are very personal, since you pretty much lug them around everywhere until you’re finished with them—or at least I do. :|

I have laid out 23 magazines in approximately one and a half year. I am kind of getting bored. I tell myself this is not a problem. One of the projects I’ve been waiting for for half my life is coming soon, and I still don’t have any great ideas. I tell myself this is also not a problem.

One of my favorite things about school and the office are the libraries. I tell myself I should read all these design books and design magazines and design journals before I graduate/resign.