Hobby/Interest

Little White Lies

LWL is a bi-monthly film magazine featuring written reviews and articles, illustrations and photography all centered around cinema (mostly recent), it's first issue release in february 2005 with The Life Aquatic issue:

Each issue falls into six different sections: a review of the feature film (cover), an introduction to feature film, a variety of articles inspired by or based on the film, more reviews, the 'Back Section' and some information or tit bits about future releases.

The design and content is primarily based on that of the feature film, reflected in typefaces, layouts, chapter headings etc but the underlying template remains the same in each issue.

Examples taken from the first issue (The Life Aquatic):

The Church of London and Huck Magazine

LWL is published by the creative agency The Church Of London, publishers of surfing snowboarding and skating lifestyle magazine Huck, meaning that much of the cover art, interior illustrations and more bare similarities and sometimes interact with each other.

http://www.tcolondon.com/

January 2011 - LWL releases a clip that exhibits 2 month process of creating issue no. 33 (The Black Swan issue):

Nike

In terms of design and campaigning, Nike is one of the most frequently updated companies in the world, constantly reflecting new themes off responses to old ones and events that the designers see the world being captivated by, more recently the 2012 London Olympics:

However, my interest in Nike lies more in the visual aspects of some of their more creative campaigns, namely the digital art in much of the Nike Air advertisements, and the use of typography, which they use not only to sell the product but to embody a whole rush or explanation of sport.
The simplicity in the 'Just Do It.' slogan allows for such vast variation in design, as three short and self explanatory words can carry off such detail in their designs:

Since I find that my skills lie mostly in illustrative typography, I find that most of my interest lies in it, and would love nothing more than to embody something as captivating as a sport or form of exercise in nothing but hand rendered letters.

National Geographic Magazine

NG published its first issue in 1888 some months are the National Geographic Society was founded, and has been published monthly and continually for the 125 years since. NG is a magazine that in some cases exhibits articles that purely serve and back up the exquisite photography, and even it's current Editor-In-Chief Chris Johns is first and foremost a photographer.

Cover of January 1915 issue of NG

The magazine is an exhibit of some of the highest quality photography and photojournalism in the world and published it's first colour photography issue in the early 20th Century, but it wasn't until 1959 that photos began to grace the front cover. However, a consistency has been maintained over the many years of it's publishing, in the yellow border of the front cover.

The National Geographic Photography Competition ran for the first time in 2006 with the participation of over 18 countries. Below are some examples of winners and runners up for the 2013 Traveller themed contest: