An editorial layout system for a culture and storytelling magazine. Kahani is a concept quarterly magazine about culture, food and stories from South Asia.
Client
Kahani Magazine
Industry
Publishing
Services
Print & Editorial
Type
Concept project
The brief
Project overview.
Kahani is a concept quarterly magazine about culture, food and stories from South Asia. It needed a layout system that feels literary but modern.
Editorial design
Layout system
Cover design
Print production
The challenge
Every issue mixes long essays, photo stories and recipes. The layout had to handle all three without feeling messy.
Our solution
We created a flexible 12-column grid, a serif and sans type pairing and a set of page templates, from features to recipe spreads.
Visual system
Look and feel.
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Typography
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The outcome
What we delivered.
Cover concepts, InDesign templates and a style guide so each issue can be produced quickly and consistently.
Editorial design
Layout system
Cover design
Print production
This is a concept project created to show our process and design thinking.