Issue 9, out 3 October

Margin Notes

Repair

The independent quarterly on design and the people behind it.

Pages
164
A copy
£18
On sale
3 October
Pre-order, £18 Inside the issue
Hands opening the fuel cap of a red moped below its handlebars

Margin Notes is an independent quarterly about design and the people behind it. Issue 9 gives every page to one word.

Inside Issue 9

Sample titles, to show the shape. The full contents run with the issue.

  1. Report

    The workshops keeping chairs in use

    A long visit to the benches where furniture comes back.

    Wooden chairs part way through restoration, stacked on benches in a furniture workshop

  2. Essay

    What a mend says about the thing

    On keeping, and what it costs.

  3. Interview

    A mechanic on learning by hand

    Apprenticeship, without the word.

  4. Portfolio

    Tools worn to the shape of a hand

    Photographed flat, at actual size.

  5. Notes

    Readers’ repairs, sent in

    Small fixes, and why they mattered.

Printed to be kept

164 pages on uncoated stock, made to be read twice.

A worn wooden plane resting in curled shavings on an old workbench
From the portfolio: a plane, worn where the hand goes.

Pre-order Issue 9

Issue9, Repair
Pages164
On sale3 October
Price£18 a copy
Copies

Total £18