See this! Motif Magazine

The flaws I find in most of my designs are related to typography.  I'm good at choosing bold, headline texts and even dek typefaces, but when it comes to the smaller body copy and other blurbs, I could use a little finesse.   The blog I've been following, Design Observer, has a whole category dedicated to typography.  Since there weren't any posts this week that interested me, I went back in the archives and found some great shots of Motif magazine, which of course, has beautiful typography.

Motif was only published between 1958 and 1967, with 13 issues.
It's subject was "visual culture" and so contained a lot of the fine arts, graphic arts, architecture, lettering and photography.  Even though Motif didn't survive through the '60s, I think it's so well executed and contains content many would still be interested in today.  If it was brought back, it may have a chance.
I know I'd subscribe.

Here are some pages I found particularly appealing:

Motif no. 11, Winter 1963/4. Cover: Eduardo Paolozzi

Motif no. 3, September 1959. Cover: John Griffiths

Typography no. 6, Summer 1938. Published by James Shand at the Shenval Press

& my personal favorite...

Motif no. 7, Summer 1961. Cover: Alan Davie. Publisher: The Shenval Press

“Sans on Buildings, or What Happened before Architects Started Using Type Books.” 

Photographs taken in Brighton, England by John Woodcock. Motif no. 6, Spring 1961