Marlon Tate

Since 2021, Marlon Tate has been art directing the iconic OZON magazine, a leading voice in the national conversation on fashion and urban youth culture since the mid 1990s.

Since the beginning of our collaboration, our approach was to go back to the publication’s roots, think about all things that made Ozon exciting and mysterious and unexpected in the first place and then reinvent its personality. Because the editorial of the magazine focuses on vibrant, queer and urban youth culture, we adopted a calm, modernist set of grids and type styles with an occasional but frantic typographic spin. The whole magazine is set on the Apercu type family, created by London-based foundry Colophon but we have also used different typefaces for the opening spreads introducing every article in a different fashion.