Live Magazine at The Bentway. Photo by Harry Choi.
Live Magazine is a publication by the design studio Frontier. Each issue, captures the most stimulating ideas and conversations from an event captured in a lasting digital or print artifact. For each event the Live Magazine team builds a pop-up space to talk with attendees, gather on-the-spot reactions, and create and sell limited-run objects.
Jump to see Issue 01, Issue 02, or Issue 03.
Issue 03
The Bentway Street Summit
This issue takes place at the Bentway Street Summit, a two-day event hosted at The Bentway’s Strachan Gate that challenged traditional understandings of city streets and asked how we can create a more inclusive, equitable, and joyful public realm.
Client
Type
Contributors
TEAM
SERVICES
INDUSTRY
Gimlet Display and Text
Nimbus Sans and Extended
Christina Bagatavicius, Harry Choi, Chris Frey, Mary Kirkpatrick, Morris Lum, Jamilla Mohamud, Patrick Pittman, Anna Gallagher-Ross, Hannah Somers, Justine Wong
CEO — Laura Sellors
Creative Director — Paddy Harrington
Associate Creative Director & Project Lead — Tristan Marantos, Jessica Leong
Editorial Director — Brian Sholis
Senior Designers — Sarah Paul, Lisa Qin
Designers — Deborah Khodanovich, Adélie Touraille
Project Manager — Hannah Vance, Maddie Cochran
Editorial, Event, Retail, Merchandise
Architecture & Design, Arts & Culture, Not-for-profit, Public & Civic
The Bentway
On-site activations and pop-up shop. Photography by Harry Choi.
Live Magazine issue 03 site visit at The Bentway
PROCESS   Site visit to The Bentway’s Strachan Gate.
Live Magazine issue 03 site visit at The Bentway
Live Magazine Issue 03 process sketches
PROCESS   Sketches of the pop-up shop and activations.
I got to bring a little bit of home to this issue in the form of an interview with designer Michael Lee Poy on  how the energy of Carnival reshapes Port-of-Spain and its people. Read the interview.
Issue 02
On Design’s Past, Present, and Futures
This issue takes place at the 2019 Design Thinkers conference in Toronto. As Canada’s largest graphic design conference, the two day event brings together visionaries from a range of disciplines to explore creativity, the design process, the future of design and design thinking.
PRINTER
Type
Client
Contributors
TEAM
SERVICES
INDUSTRY
Gimlet Display and Text
Nimbus Sans and Extended
Flash Reproductions
Adam De Souza, Tatum Dooley, Lily-Snowden Fine, Winnie T. Frick, Nick Kozak, Patrick Pittman, Ali Shamas Qadeer, Marta Ryczko, Connie Tsang, Paul Twa
Creative Director — Paddy Harrington
Design Director — Paul Kawai
Senior Designer & Project Lead — Tristan Marantos, Jessica Leong
Editor — Brian Sholis
Designers — Sarah Paul, Nicholas Hanlon
Design Intern — Emi Takahashi
Project Manager — Hannah Vance
Editorial, Event, Retail, E-Commerce, Merchandise
Architecture & Design, Not-for-profit
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD)
On-site activations and pop-up shop. Photography by Chris Barbas and Harry Choi.
Live Magazine Issue 02 behind the scenes activations
PROCESS   Remember Boomerangs? The team activating in the pop-up space!
Live Magazine issue 02 press check
PROCESS   Press check at Flash Reproductions for the printed magazine.
Live Magazine Issue 02 process sketches
PROCESS   Design sketches that didn’t make it into the final magazine but were a lot of fun to make for this story.
The printed magazine covers all the hot topics of the conference ranging from the evolution of the design community, to work-life balance, to the intersection of data and design.
Issue 01
Design Thinkers Toronto
The inaugural issue of Live Magazine at the 2018 Design Thinkers conference in Toronto. With a team of writers, photographers, illustrations, editors, and designers we captured the most powerful ideas and conversations from Canada’s largest graphic design conference in a 68-page magazine.
Client
Type
Printer
Contributors
TEAM
SERVICES
INDUSTRY
Gimlet Display and Text
Nimbus Sans and Extended
Flash Reproductions
Harry Choi, Elise Conlin, Natalia Dolan, Margot Fabre, Peter Giffen, Angeline Parsons, Annie Sakkab, Courtney Shea, Connie Tsang, Ben Weeks
Creative Director — Paddy Harrington
Design Director — Paul Kawai
Senior Designer & Project Lead — Tristan Marantos, Jessica Leong
Managing Editor — Raylene Knutson
Editor — Brian Sholis
Proofreader — Jaclyn Law
Designers — Sarah Paul, Nicholas Hanlon, Melanie Muto
Project Manager — Sarah Paul, Hannah Vance
Editorial, Event, Retail, E-Commerce, Merchandise, Project Management
Architecture & Design, Not-for-profit
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD)
On-site activations and pop-up shop. Photography by Connie Tsang.
Live Magazine Issue 01 behind the scenes risograph printing
PROCESS   Part of the pop-up shop included a limited run of live posters: quotes gathered live from the talks, designed, printed, and sold on site.
Live Magazine issue 01 inspiration
PROCESS   Design reference and brainstorm before jumping into designing the magazine.
Live Magazine Issue 01 process sketches
PROCESS   Design sketches for infographics captured at the conference through on-site activations.
The inaugural issue of Live Magazine features is jam packed with some of the biggest names in graphic design such as Michael Bierut, Jessica Hische, Forest Young, and Bonnie Siegler alongside an incredible photo essay by photojournalist Annie Sakkab, beautiful portraits by Natalia Dolan and illustrations by Elise Conlin, Ben Weeks and Margot Fabre.
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