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A stack of magazines with a black, speckled cover. The top cover shows a hand holding two orange slices and reads “A priori” and “A magazine on Art, Design and the Zeitgeist in Vienna and beyond”.

Austrian studio es’ eclectic type and intuitive editorial design for A priori magazine

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Date
23 November 2015

Austrian design studio es describes itself as a “dynamic agency.” With work across advertising, web design, typography and editorial, its experimental approach to its own arts and culture publication is representative of the Vienna-based designers’ multidisciplinary range. It’s unusual to see a publication both edited and designed by the same hands, and with eclectic type choices, and layouts that are both fresh and familiar, A priori’s design perfectly complements its far-reaching and varied content. Collated and edited with friends at Ana Berlin Communications, the studio describes the magazine as “a platform for conversation where some of our best projects, our talented friends and articles that we always wanted to read and write convene.”

A layout of a magazine with light blue and orange pages. One page features the title “A priori” and a table of contents, while another displays a quote by Margaret Atwood.
An open magazine displays a spread with two images of people holding large, circular mirrors. Bold, black typographic elements are laid over the pages, including the word “Praeing”.
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Studio es: A priori magazine

An open book showing a two-page spread of a text-heavy essay. The headline “True enough” is printed in a bold, sans-serif font across the centre.
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Studio es: A priori magazine

An open magazine spread features a large photograph of a curved, metallic building beside a body of water. Bold typography overlays the image and the opposite page, reading “Music is liquid emotional architecture.”
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Studio es: A priori magazine

An open magazine shows a colourful, stylised portrait of a person on the right page. The left page features columns of text and the vertical headline “à la française”.
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Studio es: A priori magazine

An open magazine displays a spread featuring a large photograph of a textured, multi-coloured abstract sculpture. To the left, a smaller photo shows a person sitting on a stool, alongside the word “PLAY” printed vertically.
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Studio es: A priori magazine

An open magazine displays a spread featuring a person sitting in a studio with a white table and a microphone. The opposite page contains a column of German text under the heading “Meeting the Artists”.
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Studio es: A priori magazine

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