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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
Magazine pieni di colore per combattere il Blue Monday

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. 
January 18, 2021 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: consigli di lettura riviste indipendenti
Perimetro Block rivista indipendente Milano

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.
January 12, 2021 — Dario Gaspari
Tags: interviste riviste indipendenti
Guida a business plan e costi di una rivista indipendente

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.
January 10, 2021 — Frab's Magazines & More
Tags: business Guide alla pubblicazione riviste indipendenti
Best Seller 2020: ecco le riviste indipendenti che avete amato di più

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.
December 30, 2020 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: Best Seller Frab's riviste indipendenti
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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.
December 28, 2020 — Dario Gaspari
Tags: business riviste indipendenti
Quanto n.1 - All'asta l'ultima copia su Frab's

Quantum 1 - The latest copy on Frab's is up for auction

The latest paper copy of Quanto n.1 available in paper format at auction on Frab's. The proceeds will be entirely donated to the Vivere Senza Stomaco Association.
December 20, 2020 — Dario Gaspari
Pantheon, un magazine camaleontico

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
December 17, 2020 — Anna Frabotta
Tags: interviste riviste indipendenti