Rifle studio beautifully redesign Makeshift magazine

In March this year we discussed the intriguing Middle Eastern publication The Outpost, one of the first independent titles from the Lebanon to be distributed internationally and in English. At the time the guys behind the design, Spanish/German/of no fixed address studio Rifle, didn’t have a website so we couldn’t show off any more of their portfolio. But since then they’ve managed to both finish work on another beautiful publication and squeeze a new website out into the world. Not bad!

Rifle’s work on the redesign of Makeshift magazine demonstrates an increasing flair for editorial design, featuring their signature staples of intelligently commissioned editorial illustration, a variety of well-paced grid systems suitable for a diverse range of content and a considered balance of serif typefaces for the body copy and sans serif for the navigation. They also use icons with flair, meaning no article is ever ambiguous in its purpose; a simple flash of red iconography always pointing the way to visual features, key facts and distinguishing global and local content. It’s testament to Rifle’s skill that they can rustle up two impressive publications in the space of a year and still have time to work on other projects.