Wallpaper* Magazine

Pros: fantastic writing, photography, layouts
Cons: cover price

I walked into the local Barnes & Noble to find my date nursing a hazelnut-flavored steamed milk. “Have you been waiting long?” I asked. He shook his head and pushed an open magazine across the table to me. The article of apparent interest was...

Pros: It humbles you.
Cons: It humbles you.

My good friend Super Don Ban, who is a graphic design God (one of Print magazine's Top 20 Graphic Designers under 30 in 1999), introduced me to Wallpaper*. Super Don Ban lives the life portrayed in this magazine. Whereas I add furniture...

Pros: Beautiful people, place, and things
Cons: I don’t work at wallpaper

This is the magazine to get if you globally travel frequently on business, or if you just like looking at gorgeous expensive things. I vehemently disagree with some that say the tone of this magazine is that they are better than you, and that life is ...

Pros: so pretty! great photography, fresh ideas
Cons: impractical, heavy in your tote bag, inspires guilt

You never will be as glamorous, well decorated, up to the minute, de rigeur, well shod, scantily clad, lavishly appointed, luxe, groovlicious, stylishly bored, death defyingly thin, meticulously groomed, or as well lighted as anything you will see in...

Pros: Great photography, cool, funny, tons of information
Cons: Very thick, doesn't travel well, short useful life

Wallpaper basically sells the idea that everyone's life will be SO much better if they own that $2000 pair of shoes or god ugly $5000 Italian sofa. At least you would think so at first glance.
The first time I saw the magazine I jumped to...

Pros: Brought an interest in good design to the masses
Cons: Lily white models

Wallpaper* is one of the most influential magazines to emerge in the past decade. Clean, modern, and decadent, the magazine set the tone for the dominant look of the last two years. From ads for Target to the Banana Republic catalog, its artistic style...

Pros: Learn what clean lines and good lighting can do for you!
Cons: None. Really!

Slim fingers holding cigarettes! Dewy skin (on both women AND men)! Sexual Ambiguity under tasteful track lights and Fendi fur-lined blankets! Karman Ghias and the Ford O21C (spiffy!)! Splashes of color! World's best airports! Grilled Ham and...

Pros: Great coverage of every type of design
Cons: Not the cheapest and becoming filled with ads

Wallpaper is what surrounds us in our daily life. What an appropriate title for a magazine that takes on the world of architecture, design, fashion, food and travel. All with a very swiss, very norwegian, very clean aesthetic.

Some of the big...

Pros: beautiful, intelligent, swanky
Cons: expensive subscription rate

Wallpaper* is a swanky UK publication that encompasses an endless organic list of avant garde lifestyle aspects. Each issue presents insights on current notable design products, restaurants, and designers along with full articles on global destinations,...

Pros: art, wordage, wit, sass, and everything else but the price
Cons: per issue price will buy a year's worth of some other mags

My epinion title has two meanings because you'll love this magazine if you buy it but only if you "get" their style and content.

1. A marvel of graphic design and presentation, Wallpaper* is refreshing compared to other low-tier...

Pros: You feel clean just reading it.
Cons: Depressing that you can't live like they can.

I first discovered this magazine back in 1998...about the time the 10th issue came out. I only knew of two places to buy it in Atlanta: Banana Republic, and for some odd reason, the A&P Supermarket!

Anyway, I stumbled upon it by accident at...

Pros: sexy design, architecture, fashion, travel information
Cons: a big waste of money

When I dove into my first issue of Wallpaper*, I thought I was being let in on a tremendous inside joke: the lifestyles of the young, hip and fabulous jet-setting across the globe in search of a perfect cocktail and a perfect moment. This was me. This...

Pros: Interesting layouts, great photo spreads. Versatile.
Cons: slightly pricier than the normal magazine and hard to find.

Wallpaper*. Titles on products today are becoming more and more familiar because they were already names of everyday products, and this one is no exception. The difference is the content, and having boycotted magazines for almost a year...

Pros: Beautiful, nice paper, nice stuff
Cons: At times a bit obnoxious, self-involved

Wallpaper is a nice magazine when it comes right down to it. Printed on nice stock with large beautiful pictures, the magazine is attractive to look at to say the least.

But the content, the articles some might call them, are usually not so...

Pros: layout, good style, many nice ads, well written articles
Cons: price, not everywhere to buy

i love this magazine, it's really cool! on half the pages are ads but that doesn't bother anybody at all, because they are cool ads, for example for gucci or versace and stuff like that.

wallpaper has correspondents all over the world (from...