MacGuffin Magazine

MacGuffin magazine is a new and unusual design & crafts publication from Amsterdam published biannually. It features fabulous stories about the life of ordinary, often anonymously designed things. Each edition takes an object and explores the manifold stories it generates. Like the MacGuffins in Hitchcock films, these things are not the main characters, but the plot devices that set the story in motion. With each issue based around a single object, MacGuffin magazine is a platform for fans of inspiring, personal, unexpected, highly familiar or utterly disregarded things. Widely recognized as a fabously designed and immaculately researched design & crafts biannual, it is an indispensable resource for all those who want backstage information about the Life of Things.

MacGuffin Magazine

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  • Country: The Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • Frequency: 2 issues/year
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MacGuffin Magazine Issue 15 (The Stitch Issue). The stitch is a modest gesture with an expansive reach. It connects and repairs, unravels and reveals, speaks where words fall short. From textiles to technology, scars to seams, books to buildings, and leather to language: MacGuffin Magazine No 15 dives headfirst into the wild and wonderful world of stitching.

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MacGuffin Magazine Issue 14 (The Wall Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. From the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanity’s ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division.

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MacGuffin Magazine Issue 13 (The Letter Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com.

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MacGuffin Magazine Issue 12 (The Log Issue) is here. The Log takes a walk in the woods to explore the design and politics of timber. From the last Norwegian trunks that floated down the Glomma to the indigenous logs that help map the Amazon, and from Jamaican lacebark trees to online chatbots: meet the logs that function as totems, design tools, oracles, wormholes, comic figures, activist artworks, village idiots, prison cells, logbooks, nightmares and dreams.

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MacGuffin Magazine Issue 11 (The Chain Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. From charms and chokers to shackles and fetters, this issue explores the many manifestations of that most contradictory of objects: ‘The Chain’.

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MacGuffin magazine Issue 10 (The Bottle Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. MacGuffin Magazine celebrates its tenth jubilee by uncorking a miscellany of bottles that capture the zeitgeist.

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MacGuffin magazine Issue 8 (The Desk Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Time for some hot desking with MacGuffin Nº 8, an issue devoted entirely to our daily cockpit: the desk.

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MacGuffin magazine Issue 7 (The Trousers Issue) is out now. Dress up this spring with The Trousers of MacGuffin, dedicated to an object that is so much more than a garment: it’s a mirror of desires and passions far beyond reason.

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MacGuffin magazine Issue 6 (The Ball Issue) is out now. Keep your eyes on the ball this autumn with MacGuffin Nº 6. Dedicated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball.

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MacGuffin magazine Issue 5 is out now. MacGuffin Issue 5 opens up the curious life of the cabinet, where intimate stories are hidden away, kept and inevitably shown.

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