Tales Journal

Design Founder, Creative Director

Tales was a quarterly creative magazine, turned online blog – a story book for adults, if you will – originally founded in 2015. We are all about the joy of narrative, drawing readers who are curious daydreamers with wild imaginations. Tales brings readers on a magical journey, immersing readers in timeless stories, beautiful imagery, and design-led composition. The pages of our magazine offer moments of nostalgia and escapism from our busy, chaotic world. 

The images on this page are from Tales contributors.

Creative Direction | Graphic Design

After launching the magazine as a co-founder in 2015, Kat moved the magazine to London and went on to lead Tales into 4 more issues with a new team.

  • Winners of Brainchild Business and Innovation Competition
  • Over 200 contributors for the past 5 issues
  • Readers from across the globe over 18 countries

As a director, she started each issue by reaching out to universities, brands and theme-focussed creatives and launched a Kickstarter. As an editor, she selected content, and lastly as a graphic designer, she created the magazine layouts and published it online through Issuu. Occasionally she also illustrated and photographed content to complement written pieces. More recently the magazine has been redesigned as Tales Journal and is now an online blog.

Website | www.talesjournal.com

Building a creative open platform means everything to us.
Tales is based on the love of art, transparency, and recognising the value of creative pursuit. You will be supporting a creative business that recognises the value of artists and pays for submissions without exploiting the creative.

Kathrina WainstokFounder & Designer

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The Kickstarter campaign finished unfunded, but we learnt, dusted ourselves off and moved online to rebuild the creative empire. 

Creative Director | Kathrina Wainstok

Video Production | Jack Brophy

Actors | Roxane Dewar & Matthew Tate

Visit the campaign here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/…