Ludique Magazine was a photography publication that ran from 2013-2018, primarily focusing on mobile photography during that era of Instagram and later expanding to a wider community of photographers.

2013

The first year we did a setup more like a traditional magazine.
Twelve issues were released, one at the end of each month.

2014

Despite being well received in the first year, we decided to take a risk anyway and move towards a different type of site.

The end of April came with a change in season and the launch of the updated site in combination with a new issue. That year, quarterly issues were released.

Article Selects

While the biggest part of the magazine and site are our Interviews, we also do put articles out as well. Contributors have written for Ludique from around the world.

A couple handfuls of these articles appear below for your reading pleasure. To see the article itself, click the title.

Stasha's Moment

The contributor and columnist with us from day one. Her son, Little J, and two dogs, Max and Bruce, are constant fixtures in her columns (and her life!). She always brings a new perspective to Ludique and is currently based out of Tokyo (usually a Washington resident - hence her @northwestmommy name on Instagram). Below are four of the more recent columns that Stasha has done, out of her nearly twenty overall. 

2015

We put out some more issues on the site earlier in the year, but then we decided to go for more of an experiment in the Fall. In this time period, and currently is still the case, people get more information now from social media than websites. So we thought about if the publication model was being made from scratch today, why wouldn't all the content just be published directly to social media? Being that Instagram is the strongest visual platform, and that we also have the majority of our audience there, we decided to try out this way of thinking. For the rest of the year and into the next, we put out our content strictly through our Instagram account and designed it specifically for it, too.

2016

Photo Of The Day Series

Going off the Instagram series of content prior, we tried out a new experiment for the early and middle section of the year based around featuring one photo each day and making sure the individuals in each were properly highlighted. These were again designed specifically for the 'gram and made to reflect a modern magazine style. It also was done in coordination with Instagram's layout changing from their past blue-highlighted design to their clean black-and-white layout (although the designs were actually done first, but they weren't posted until right when the switch happened so it worked out perfectly in favor, making for a seamless mix).

Final Iteration

Launched in September of 2016, this website was our last pivot. We wanted to add some more color into the pages and provide a new way for people to experience the content. The interviews continued until 2018.