Wallpaper* delivers their “Design Awards 2012″ issue – on newsstands now. This is the eighth annual design awards form the British design, fashion, and all things material publication. In their words, the issue is “a celebration of the people, places and products that have lifted our spirits and made us realise that despite all the economic and political chaos around us”

Neville Brody has been putting in work for Wallpaper’s August issue, designing the subscriber cover and making a new font. Brody stated that he wanted “something that seems raw and takes time to work through” and judging from the cover, which took us a good few minutes to work out, he’s certainly achieved that.We don’t want to spoil it for you guys and girls though, so we won’t tell you what it says.

Font geeks should love the ‘Peace 2′ font, which was based on the Tate & Lyle logo. It’s used throughout the magazine, spreads of which you can see after the leap. (Creative Review)

As far as foreign magazines go, Japanese magazines are the most fawned upon. Whether it’s the details obsessed cooing over Free & Easy or the fashion forward loving Men’s Non-No, it’s pretty safe to say that everyone’s well acquainted with Japanese magazines. If you’ve ever wanted to expand your foreign magazine reading habits beyond one country in the Orient, Wallpaper* have a great set of interviews with the editors of several groundbreaking Chinese magazines. The main cornerstone of the feature is that as consumerism has risen in China, so has the desire for information and these magazines fill that void. Read the full set of interviews at Wallpaper.

Check after the jump for spreads from each of the featured magazines.

Wallpaper* Magazine’s “Next generation: Creative Directors” highlights the new wave of CRs forging the road in fashion. “A wind of change has blown through many fashion houses lately, bringing with it a new crop of creative directors. It may be just a coincidence of timing but the sudden rush of fresh talent, busy injecting life into old labels, creating brand new lines or shining light on forgotten histories, is a welcome infusion of energy and invention.” Wallpaper* pulls Q&A’s with Kim Jones, Bruno Pieters, Stuart Vevers, and Pierre-Henri Mattout for the piece. A great read.

Back in August we previewed the Wallpaper* Selects photography commission done in collaboration with art publisher Eyestorm. CR fills us in on the new that collection will now be on display at London’s St. Martins Lane Hotel. The pop-up gallery “will be open to the public from 10-19 December, will showcase ten works by photographers whose work has appeared in Wallpaper* in recent years: Jonathan de Villiers, Mauricio Alejo, Jonathan Frantini, Christopher Griffith, Stefan Ruiz, Daniel Stier, Benedict Redgrove and Joël Tettamanti.”