Works That Work Magazine

Works That Work is an international print and digital magazine for the curious mind. Twice a year we publish a wide-ranging collection of original, in-depth articles about unique projects from all over the world, exploring the ways that creativity touches and improves our lives. We believe that creativity is not the exclusive domain of artists or designers. Everything anyone has ever made includes elements of design, and some of the most successful designs can escape our attention unless we stop to study them closely. Our commitment to our community of readers includes keeping advertising to an absolute minimum, a goal we achieve by bypassing traditional distribution networks which typically take the largest part of the cover price, as well as control where the publication will be sold and for how much. Instead, we offer our readers the opportunity to get paid to distribute Works That Work in their area, a system we call ‘social distribution’. We don’t think of our readership as a target audience, but as a community of like-minded people who can’t be reduced to a set of categories. We meet with them regularly at magazine launches and reader gatherings — social media over a glass of wine. I’ve read every issue of Works That Work, and I’ve always enjoyed it. The reason I do is because there are always several projects that I’ve never heard of before, but find completely compelling. So for example, in the recent issue there was a fantastic essay on history of containerisation, its impact on global economy, and also a wonderful photo essay on footballs that kids make in Africa from bits of scrap metal, cardboard, wood, anything that happens to be around. There were incredibly beautiful, and very, very ingenious, fantastic example of vernacular design. At Works That Work we think relevance is more important than recentness. We pride ourselves in publishing quality journalism and extraordinary photography, but perhaps most importantly, we hope to publish articles that make great dinner stories to tell your friends.