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Terry Jones

British graphic designer and co-founder of i-D magazine (1980), former art director of British Vogue, MBE for services to fashion and popular culture.

Oct 6, 2026

18:10
Money sometimes can take you in directions that perhaps you never thought you, you saw yourself going, and it's hard to bring yourself back to that point where- You know, I got into this because it was different.
18:24
The last commercial magazine I, I got involved in was in 2016, which is about 10 years ago, when Edward Enninful was the fashion director at W Magazine, and they asked if I would get involved to, uh, create a direction on an issue, and they would give me complete freedom.
18:43
Conceptually, I wanted to make a magazine where the power had gone down, and so that everything went back to being handmade.
18:51
I always had to have people who were really skillful at doing all the technical stuff that I just didn't have the patience or the skills or the brain to get my head around it.
19:02
So I think that the concept was sticking the contents of really good photography from Steven Meisel, Steven Klein did the cover over the previous September issue.
19:14
So getting back to a sense of energy that you can get when you physically make something.
19:21
And I think that applying or creating restrictions is part of what I always saw as the toolbox, certainly in my studio, and that people that would come through the studio would often be encouraged to, what I'd say, break the grid.

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