Boxhorn #40, “Tradition” issue

This summer, the 40th edition of Boxhorn magazine was published. In keeping with Boxhorn’s anniversary year, this year’s editorial team focused on the theme of “Tradition” in various aspects of life and asked themselves: “Does tradition protect or harm?”

Tradition is a lantern, the fool holds on to it, while the wise are guided by its light.

This sentence appears at the very beginning of the 40th issue of Boxhorn and served as a guiding principle for this year‘s team throughout the exploration of the theme of tradition and the creation of the magazine. Through photos, text, and graphics, the team visualized how tradition affects people, society, and diversity. What are the negative and positive aspects? Should we preserve tradition, or is new always better? Under the overarching theme of tradition, the team focused on professions, art, sports, family, cuisine, religion, and politics. Both the editorial and design aspects were independently managed by the students. The result is a 100-page magazine filled with diversity, critique, nostalgia, and interesting facts.

One fun fact about the design: the font concept is intended to make tradition visible so the team used a variable font named Times New Arial. Starting with Arial, it let the font change throughout the magazine, with only marginal differences from page to page, until it ends with Times New Roman. Additionally the team sprayed each cover and four pages per magazine by hand, making each copy unique.