artymagazines - About Us

Brighton’s Arty Magazine was dreamed up by Torben Krog and Alison Thomas. They decided to combine their 40 years’ publishing experience doing something they love: producing a magazine that celebrates the outstanding creative talents on their doorstep.

After a misspent youth reading too many Jackie magazines, Alison Thomas wasted five years studying English literature and falling in love with Byron. She abandoned her pursuit of dead poets for a career in magazines, starting out as editorial assistant on the much maligned and misunderstood ‘Professional Electrician & Installer’. For the past 15 years she has worked in the heady world of customer communications working for agencies in London and South Africa. Left to her own devices, she would prefer to be at home with her cats and a large glass of Rioja, watching Coronation Street.

Danish-born Torben Krog first experienced Brighton’s warm welcome when he arrived here as a teenage language student and was stoned by a group of local lads on the beach. During the 24 years that it took him to return he studied typographic design and has worked on too many advertising and magazine projects to mention. Torben’s work has taken him all over the world, art directing shoots everywhere from the Arctic Circle to Cape Town. He now lives with Alison in the pleasantly stone-free North Laine area of Brighton. And while he’ll never say no to a glass of Rioja, and has been educated to love cats, the appeal of the Rover’s Return still evades him.