Margin — brutalist magazine

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<main id="top">
  <nav class="site-nav" aria-label="Demo site">
    <a class="wordmark" href="#top">MARGIN</a>
    <div><span>INDEPENDENT IDEAS / NO FIXED FORMAT</span></div>
  </nav>
  <section class="margin-cover">
    <span id="issue">ISSUE 07 / OCTOBER 2026</span>
    <h1 id="cover-title">MAKE<br />SOME<br />ROOM.</h1>
    <div class="margin-stamp">READ<br />THINK<br />REPEAT ↗</div>
  </section>
  <div class="margin-index">
    <div><b>IN THIS ISSUE</b><button id="change">Previous issue ←</button></div>
    <ol id="contents">
      <li>Design at the edge of the page <span>006</span></li>
      <li>The useful life of a bad idea <span>014</span></li>
      <li>Conversations without a brief <span>032</span></li>
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