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The cult magazine about what tech is doing to us is back. After 25 years.
With 37 contributors from deep inside the machine — writers, technologists, designers, doom prophets, and the occasional microdosed Silicon Valley philosopher — In Formation issue 3 weighs in at 1.3 pounds of analysis, satire, soul-searching, and sheer analog delight. Printed on solvent-scented thick paper in CMYK color (take that, RGB!), it’s a 160-page love letter to print, and the kind of design that only a magazine can deliver.
The future may be synthetic, optimized, and monotonal. But this magazine? It’s seriously well informed, irreverent, and altogether human. In addition to 30 articles and infographics, it comes with an 18-page comic, a photo essay, and — to complete the analog media experience — a flexi-disc that you can tear out and play on your record player. It’s got two songs by The Layoffs, written and performed exclusively for In Formation.
I must tell you that I think your magazine is superb. And perhaps the most ambitious new magazine I’ve seen in some time. It truly lifts my heart to see smart, young people producing new publications. On paper, no less. The world goes on!
Graydon Carter
Editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017; Co-founder of Spy; Co-Editor of Air Mail
I must tell you that I think your magazine is superb. And perhaps the most ambitious new magazine I’ve seen in some time. It truly lifts my heart to see smart, young people producing new publications. On paper, no less. The world goes on!
Graydon Carter
Editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017; Co-founder of Spy, Co-Editor of Air Mail
I finally had the chance to sit down with In Formation — unhurried, page by page — and it’s nothing short of remarkable.
More than a magazine, it’s an experience: the generous large-format pages and lush scale invite you to linger, letting the work expand in both space and meaning. The design, pacing, and tactile presence draw you in, asking for a kind of attentiveness the digital world rarely affords. Confident, thoughtful, and full of heart, it feels like a welcome counterpoint to the speed and noise of our age.
What stayed with me most was the care in every spread — the way imagery and text seem to speak to one another, how the creative content shifts from the intimate to the expansive, always inviting reflection. There’s a rhythm here, a breathing space between moments, where even the paper becomes part of the storytelling. Turning each page felt like stepping into a slower, more intentional world — one I hadn’t realized I was longing for.
In a cultural moment when so much feels fleeting, In Formation stands as a reminder that some work is meant to be savored. It’s a beautiful accomplishment, and I look forward to seeing how future editions continue to surprise, challenge, and inspire.
John Montorio
Former executive features editor and standards editor for The Huffington Post; managing editor of the Los Angeles Times; associate managing editor of The New York Times; and executive editor of Newsday’s Sunday magazine.
I finally had the chance to sit down with In Formation — unhurried, page by page — and it’s nothing short of remarkable.
John Montorio
More than a magazine, it’s an experience: the generous large-format pages and lush scale invite you to linger, letting the work expand in both space and meaning. The design, pacing, and tactile presence draw you in, asking for a kind of attentiveness the digital world rarely affords. Confident, thoughtful, and full of heart, it feels like a welcome counterpoint to the speed and noise of our age.
What stayed with me most was the care in every spread — the way imagery and text seem to speak to one another, how the creative content shifts from the intimate to the expansive, always inviting reflection. There’s a rhythm here, a breathing space between moments, where even the paper becomes part of the storytelling. Turning each page felt like stepping into a slower, more intentional world — one I hadn’t realized I was longing for.
In a cultural moment when so much feels fleeting, In Formation stands as a reminder that some work is meant to be savored. It’s a beautiful accomplishment, and I look forward to seeing how future editions continue to surprise, challenge, and inspire.
Former executive features editor and standards editor for The Huffington Post; managing editor of the Los Angeles Times; associate managing editor of The New York Times; and executive editor of Newsday’s Sunday magazine.