IdN Magazine

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 29/4, Event & Festival Identities:

Whether the identity is designed for an exhibition, a festival or a concert, even if the event itself only lasts for a few days, the ID should be extremely powerful. It should appear on every possible platform and clearly state the theme and context of the event. It needs clearly to show all the necessary information – date, venue address, line-ups – through stunning visuals that could present the theme of the event. And the ID systems should work across various platforms, be they digital such as apps, web, TV or physical — such as posters and leaflets. The visuals must carry a “wow!” effect, to attract potential audiences and as many participants as possible.  

In this issue, we feature more than 40 designers who are all experts on design identity for festivals and events and they have been kind enough to share their thoughts and tips with you.