Print is not dead. It is just collectable now. Publications have become desirable to archive: collectable omnibuses documenting subgenres and their integrational patterns. Most likely magazine pages will soon be taken as a form of currency, like in that postapocalyptic movie with a gilled Kevin Costner in it. These subgenres should all be closely observed so we can secretly sell all data to the government for loads of money to fund a lavish island lifestyle in our old age.
The majority of the publications I worked on as an editor and layout artist were similar in the sense that they were mostly about reprobates or characters finding themselves on the fringe of society. I lived in those times with those crazy people so, in many ways, these publications became scrapbook albums documenting my own life in one way or another.
That being said, I like to keep things minimal, to invite the viewer into their whispers but to allow the images to speak for themselves. When it comes to layout, everything should be viewed as an object and moved accordingly. Each object has a certain weight and determines the balanced ratio of the page.