Cultured Magazine

Publication Design | Fall 2025

This speculative project repositions cultured magazine from a publication that covers culture to one that drives it. My rebrand modernizes the system, updating the publication to create a space for culture that is both tense and refined, because progress cannot be made in comfort, and innovation shouldn’t sacrifice beauty. The issue I designed for Cultured is a hypothetical “Adonis Issue” for pride month that honors the history of the LGBTQ+ community in print by naming the special edition after a prominent Lavender Scare era ‘beefcake’ magazine.

Cultured Magazine

Publication Design | Fall 2025

This speculative project repositions cultured magazine from a publication that covers culture to one that drives it. My rebrand modernizes the system, updating the publication to create a space for culture that is both tense and refined, because progress cannot be made in comfort, and innovation shouldn’t sacrifice beauty. The issue I designed for Cultured is a hypothetical “Adonis Issue” for pride month that honors the history of the LGBTQ+ community in print by naming the special edition after a popular Lavender Scare era ‘beefcake’ magazine.

Sam Javadi

Berghain Nightclub¹ Cultured Magazine² Shakespeare Plays³ Museum of Broken Hearts⁴ Kefi Ouzo⁵

Berghain Nightclub¹ Cultured Magazine² Shakespeare Plays³ Museum of Broken Hearts⁴ Kefi Ouzo⁵