A beautifully crafted Dutch magazine about the life of ordinary things. Like Hitchcock’s MacGuffins, these objects never take center stage, yet they quietly shape the narrative and spin the most intricate plots around themselves. A bed, a window, and a rope — these were the themes of its first issues. On the pages of the magazine, such mundane objects are revealed from unexpected angles, connecting people of various professions and appearing across all forms of art.
In 2016, the magazine won the top international prize for independent publishing, the Stack Awards.
Time for some hot desking with MacGuffin Nº 8, an issue devoted entirely to our daily cockpit: the desk. MacGuffin pulls open desk drawers and points up desk plants, surveying a succession of clean desks and messy desks, radical desks and resolute desks, makeshift desks and talk show desks, not to mention the fine art of office pranking and presidential doodling. Featuring François Dallegret, Emily King, Kazuhide Takahama, Saint Jerome, Formafantasma, Jan Švankmajer and many, many more.
Netherlands / eng. / 21×28 cm / 210 pages / 0.5 kg.
