Trade Winds

Hamish Robertson’s Trade Winds reflects a lifelong fascination with magazines—as both cultural artifact and design object. Drawing from a childhood surrounded by titles like The World of Interiors and Vogue, and later professional years in magazine publishing, Robertson turns to a period outside his own lived experience: a complete year of Electronics magazine issues, published 12 years before he was born. These analog pages are the sole source material for a series of collages that blend historical context with intuitive image-making—reviving the past through layered, tactile compositions.