International Designers Network (IdN) is one of the most highly regarded digital and graphic design magazines around, and believe us, it's quite stunning.
Produced in Hong Kong and published quarterly, IdN Magazine caters to professionals, students and the design-fixated alike everywhere. Several years back it slimmed down from a larger size to a more compact oversized A5 book format, jettisoning easier page-flicking for a more dense and immersive read. This is because the magazine's approach is to explore just a few elements or even a single design area in depth rather than to skim a lot more.
Design titles published in this way are all too rare and for this reason we keep a good selection of available back issues to enable designers to create a useful resource library.
Here's the publisher description for the latest issue, IdN 29/1: Mixed Media:
Collage consists of pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, e.g. newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theatre tickets or fragments of an envelope. Therefore, words such as montage and mixed-media are constantly used in tandem with collage.
But be careful — behind all these positive vibes may lurk some hidden traps. As one of our contributors, David Sauder, put it “the most difficult thing is that the creative process can easily become chaotic, since it is difficult to formulate the point when additional layers and elements are no longer allowed to be add to the composition.”
However, most of our contributors still find collage an exercise in improvisation, experimentation and a wide range of visual solutions. Additionally, it provides an opportunity to work as an illustrator or an artist without necessarily having the requisite drawing skills.