Chisel Magazine Launches as a Print Fetish Object on Substack

Jason Killingsworth, co-founder and creative director of the new print magazine Chisel, discusses its launch in an interview with PRINT Magazine. Chisel is a twice-yearly print magazine and twice-weekly digital newsletter published by Tune & Fairweather, a fine-press Irish book publisher, and printed in Florence, Italy. The magazine is edited by Ryan Rigney and focuses on the virtues of beauty, obsession, and play. Killingsworth describes Chisel as a "frescoed chapel" for collecting words, images, and ideas. The magazine is distributed via Substack, where it reached #5 on the platform's Rising chart for Culture publications within a day of launch. Killingsworth's career began with music criticism for Paste magazine, later working as features editor for Edge magazine in the UK, and founding Tune & Fairweather in 2019. Chisel aims to be a collectible object with high production values, avoiding the ad-driven model and focusing on timeless content. The slogan is "Words worth carving in stone."