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Interview with Antonella Pescetto from Orlando
If we were to make a game and describe Orlando magazine with just one adjective, surely this would be beauty. The pages of this multidisciplinary magazine with an Italian soul exude all the beauty that can be found in a work of art as well as in a good glass of wine, in an unusual reading or in a design suite. We interviewed Antonella to let us better tell her creature.
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
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.
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.
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.
Magazines full of color to fight Blue Monday
The first magazines that arrived in 2021 deal with the sea, design, childhood, architecture and have in common a distinctive trait that has done us a lot of good these days: color. Considering that today is Blue Monday, a day that some define as the saddest of the year, we thought that telling you about these colors would be a nice way to distract yourself and surround yourself with beauty in these slightly gray days.
Sebastiano Leddi tells us about Perimeter
Born in 2018, at a time when Milan was experiencing one of its luckiest periods, between art, culture and fashion, Perimeter today it reinvents itself and greets 2021 with a new shape, the square, and a new series, Block, which speaks better of our contemporary.
Guide to business plans and costs from an independent magazine
The Frab's guide in which we explain how to make the business plan, decide the price to the public of an independent magazine and how much the independent publishing supply chain costs.
Best Seller 2020: Here are the independent magazines you loved the most
Here is the ranking of Frab’s Best Sellers 2020, Which puts in black and white what you loved most of our catalog which has now reached 700 titles, between old glories and new loves.
The bright future of publishing. Despite Amazon
A lesson comes from the big US publishing giants: the future is independent. And it can survive despite Amazon.
Pantheon, a chameleonic magazine
Among all the magazines that we have been lucky enough to read, we have found one that reaches a very high level of experimentation: it is called (for this isse 0) Pantheon, it is Italian and its heart are illustrations
Reading tips for a Magazine Christmas
We tried to imagine what you and your friends might like, dividing the proposals by themes and emotions, because sometimes you have to be guided by perceptions rather than by "reason".