It’s always interesting to go back to someone’s older work. You can see, through Tyler Brule’s vision of late 90s/early 2000s Wallpaper Magazine, a little of what would eventually become Monocle.
You can see it in the pleasant but aloof models on the cover and throughout. You can see it in the breadth of subject matter, and the generally bright outlook on the future, as well as a general assumption that money is no object.
Finally, you can see it in the set of recommendations, all laid out in what was a popular style at the time: thick black stroke lines separating slightly jagged grids of short paragraphs. I wonder if this will come back in style in a few years, once people tire of glassmorphism.
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