Our favourite magazine designs: The Happy Reader

Joana Gala • January 14, 2025

The Happy Reader, a bookish magazine for avid readers, from Penguin, is a very beautifully designed and comfortably sized magazine about reading. 


A magazine designer from The End Creative Agency is writing about The Happy Reader magazine, highlighting its layout and connection to graphic design in Australia.

It’s very unassuming and doesn’t make an effort to be eye-catching. However, it’s one of the easier reads I’ve had. Another interesting aspect is that the layout slightly tweaks from issue to issue without losing it’s identity, as Penguin’s magazine designer, Matt Young puts it “We want it to be a living thing, rather than just having a template that we keep dropping content into. The cover is always slightly different, the contents have moved to the front in this issue having always been on the back page, and the endpapers always change and often have a subtle link to the book of the season.”


It's wonderful how magazine design can lead us periodically from issue to issue while creating a wonderful graphic patrimony.

This image shows The Happy Reader magazine, celebrated for its layout, as featured in a Perth-based blog by a graphic design agency.
This image showcases The Happy Reader magazine, with commentary from a graphic designer at The End Creative Agency in Perth, Australia, about its design.
In this image, The End Creative Agency is spotlighting The Happy Reader magazine, discussing visual communication design and magazine layouts in Sydney.
This image captures The Happy Reader magazine as a magazine designer from The End Creative Agency explores its innovative layout and visual communication.
A Perth-based graphic design agency features The Happy Reader magazine in this image, focusing on its layout and magazine design techniques.
This is an image of The Happy Reader magazine being discussed by a Sydney-based magazine designer at The End Creative Agency, with a focus on visual communication.
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