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AJ re-design/ APFEL & Sarah Douglas This photograph, taken in the studio of design partnership A Practice For Everyday Life (APFEL), shows APFEL and AJ art editor Sarah Douglas (left) working on the new design for the magazine. Emma Thomas (centre) and Kirsty Carter (right) are the partners of APFEL. Over the last three months, we have been working closely together to create a clean, simple design that reflects the aspirations of the editorial team and works within the constraints of a weekly magazine. The look and feel of the new AJ is designed to convey the notion of a journal. The layout explores the ways in which the three-dimensional world of architecture and architectural practice can be translated into the pages of a magazine. Taking inspiration from the conventions of architectural ‘crit’, some pages feature overlapping images hanging from a line, as if pinned up on a wall. The challenge has been to explore the different languages of magazines and architecture and to find a common ground between the two.

Photographed by Tim Soar in Bethnal Green, London, on 19 May 2005 at 12.30pm

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