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Slow living inspiration? Ecco i magazine da non perdere

Slow living inspiration? Here are the magazines not to be missed

One of the characteristics of independent magazines is time: they are slow publications, with long and sometimes irregular cadences, but above all they need time and slowness to be read and really appreciated.

We often find this slowness also in the contents, which invite you to embrace a conscious life. We have selected five inspiring independent magazines that invite us to slow down, offering us ideas and good reasons for a more conscious lifestyle.

April 06, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: consigli di lettura
Are We Europe nel nostro Secret Mag Club di Marzo

Are We Europe in our March Secret Mag Club

In the Secret Mag Club of March 2021 we have chosen to talk about Europe and journalism with the magazine Are We Europe. A political journalism magazine that chooses to tell Europe in a different way from the one we know, rigorously deepening the stories and reasons of its people and its peoples.
March 29, 2021 — Dario Gaspari
Tags: recensioni secret mag club
Emanuela Martini ci racconta il suo Cineforum

Emanuela Martini tells us about her Cineforum

Founded in 1962, Cineforum in 2020 changes its skin: format, graphics and periodicity are revisited, remaining faithful to the original in the contents. Among its pages presentations and reviews alternate with controversy and discussions on dozens of films, analysis of film trends and authorial trends in this sector.
On the occasion of the release of the first issue we interviewed Emanuela Martini, editor of the magazine.

March 23, 2021 — Frab's Magazines & More
Tags: interviste
Mulieris Magazine su Frab's Magazines

Mulieris magazine: feminism and art between the pages of a magazine

Mulieris Magazine is a somewhat uncomfortable magazine, but one that screams truth on every page. Yes, because we discover, reading it, that the world of art is still crossed today by profound gender disparities, a reflection of a society in which if you are a woman you still risk being considered a second-class human being. We interviewed the all-female team hiding behind its pages.
March 21, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Perché abbiamo bisogno di Positive News?

Why do we need Positive News?

"Bad news are good news. Good news is no news. No news is bad news ". For the uninitiated, this is the first thing they teach you in any journalism course, but there is a different way to tell news, good or bad, and it's called constructive journalism. We explain how this new approach to information at the basis of magazines such as Positive News works

March 17, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: approfondimenti consigli di lettura riviste indipendenti
Guida al codice a barre nelle riviste: ISBN, ISSN o nessun codice?

Barcode Guide in Magazines: ISBN, ISSN or No Code?

Guide to ISSN and ISBN codes: what they are, why they are needed, how to use them and how to get them. If you are planning a magazine or an editorial publication it is good to know these codes and why they can be an added value for your project. In this guide we try to explain to you why we always recommend that you wear them.
March 07, 2021 — Dario Gaspari
Tags: Guide alla pubblicazione
Yogurt Magazine nel nostro Secret Mag Club di febbraio

Yogurt Magazine in our February Secret Mag Club

Kitsch, grotesque, disturbing, but precisely for this fascinating, to leaf through page after page with voyeuristic obsession. We could briefly describe the latest issue of Yogurt magazine, the Italian contemporary photography magazine that we hosted in our Secret Mag Club in February and which dedicated its second edition to bad taste. We asked Francesco Rombaldi, editor in chief and curator of Yogurt, to tell us something more about this project.
February 26, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: interviste secret mag club
A Magazine Curated By, in arrivo la ristampa del numero uno curato da Maison Martin Margiela

A Magazine Curated By, the reissue of the number one edited by Maison Martin Margiela is coming

Almost two decades after its release, the number one of A Magazine curated by, curated by Maison Martin Margiela is back available with a reissue, identical to the original, in a limited edition. For the occasion, we retraced the history of one of the most iconic magazines ever.
February 24, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: recensioni riviste indipendenti
Guida alla stampa risograph: intervista a Concretipo Studio

Guide to printing risograph: interview with Concretipo Studio

Direct descendant of the mimeograph, the Risograph is experiencing a new flowering among artists and publishers precisely because of its characteristics of craftsmanship and its limits, which make each printed copy unique and different from the other. The guys from Concretipo Studio tell us about it.
February 09, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: Guide alla pubblicazione interviste tecniche di stampa
The Bloody Mary: intervista a Jesy Moliterno e Uliana Sgura

The Bloody Mary: interview with Jesy Moliterno and Uliana Sgura

Pink candy cover and a font that in our mind recalls the gothic world, but don't be fooled by the (beautiful) cover, The Bloody Mary is really what you don't expect, giving to the panorama of Italian independent magazines a breath of freshness and experimentation that has perhaps been missing for a while.
February 02, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: interviste riviste indipendenti
Unseen Projects e Urbarïum nel Secret Mag Club di gennaio

Unseen Projects and Urbarïum in the Secret Mag Club in January

In our first Secret Mag Club of 2021 we decided to give our subscribers a double surprise: a truly exclusive artist's zine and Urbarium Semen, our travel notebook.
January 31, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: recensioni secret mag club
MacGuffin magazine: entrare dentro le cose

MacGuffin magazine: getting inside things

Founded by Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven, with the help of graphic designer Sandra Kassenaar, MacGuffin is an independent design magazine capable of concentrating each issue on a different, seemingly banal, but infinitely fascinating object. 
January 26, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: recensioni riviste indipendenti