At Your Service is a weekly round-up of helpful and interesting service journalism. Inspired by the “ultimate in service and style” Vitals magazine. I follow the media and keep you in the know. *(And yes, technically none of these are actually “charticles” but who is keeping track)
For the first installment of AYS, I take a look at Antenna, Esquire UK and Condé Nast’s newish business-title Portfolio.
Antenna
Knowing that the new issue is fresh on newsstands I took the opportunity to feature the Winter 2008 issue of the sneaker and jeans centric men’s magazine. Antenna does an excellent job with their still-life product pages. This content makes up most of each issue (there was a cool Steven Alan profile in there too). I would compare their approach to the many product obsessed Japanese magazines (Including one that I have covered previously). The pharmacy still-life pages from this issue were amazing. In Antenna you find pages focused on tooth brushes for example, mixed right in the middle of pages with plaid shirts, puffer coats and electronics. I love it – very well done – bathroom reading for sure.
