A new look for the Friends Quarterly
FQ editor Tony Stoller describes the background to the new format for our sister magazine
The new issue of the Friends Quarterly looks very different. This is a redesign that will carry the periodical through the coming years, while seeking to stay true to a tradition that was begun 144 years ago. Every editor knows that you play around with the look of a publication at your peril. Many of the UK’s newspapers took the step away from broadsheet to tabloid many years ago, and as Marshall McLuhan foresaw that changed not only the layout but also the content, and the style with which it was presented. Smaller pages make for shorter sentences and shorter words within them, challenging the ability to follow complex trains of thought. The Friend skilfully took a step in the opposite direction, moving to a larger and more open format.
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