Every year, Storehouse Editions creates a publication which includes work by 2nd year students both from the Manchester School of Art and the Manchester Fashion Institute. Whilst groups of students create their own publications separately, everyone ultimately contributes to the final publication. Within the groups, the main goal is to explore a subject in-depth, with a clear focus on creative collaboration between practices, and on the exploration of independent/experimental ways of producing editorial work. 

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SHAPE magazine was inspired by the theme of "Mundane vs Magnificent". Relaying heavily on imagery - photography and illustration - it explores the idea of "the mundane within the mundane", by focusing on the elementary shape of things. Issue one is all about the circle, so we invite the viewer/reader to think about the concept of that very shape. How many things around us are circles? Any you never noticed before?

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What makes it magnificent? The meaning of an object to someone for starters (e.g. a wedding ring or a bracelet). If you want to make it "meta", how circles make our world easier to understand through semiotics, by being universally easy to recognise (e.g. traffic lights/signs); or even how they're part of everyone's math/physics curriculums at school.

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We pushed the idea of "magnificent" in a more literal sense too, by using different print styles and finishes, as well as multiple stocks for added texture, in an effort to make the magazine feel like a sensory experience.