ARCHIVIO

The Design Issue

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In this new issue of ARCHIVIO, Editors Jasper Morrison and Marco Sammicheli, offer a mapping of the design archives international landscape at this moment in time and an overview of the many typologies and influences in the design world, divided in three sections: "Organizations", "Brands", "Designers & Creatives".
The first section, “Organizations”, includes institutions, museums and foundations that exhibit or treasure objects that have made design history, or are writing it right now.
“Brands”, on the other hand, is the section concerned with telling the story and consecrating some of the most internationally relevant companies, and doing so through their archival treasures.
The last section, though not least, is that of “Designers & Creatives”, featuring very different personalities united by their genius and ability to grasp the needs of society, drawing inspiration from it precisely.
The Design Issue also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the many design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria visually processed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.

ARCHIVIO Third series

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The Design Issue10

In ARCHIVIO N°10 Jasper Morrison and Marco Sammicheli have put together an essay on the observation of realities, as the best design archives are precisely those capable of including the unexpected, the things that originate from a living culture of the object, from rigorous manufacturing processes, from fields and sectors that never cease to offer reflections and hybridizations: an overview of the design world, divided in three sections: "Organizations", "Brands", "Designers & Creatives".

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The Fashion Issue9

When did fashion become obsessed with its own history?
In ARCHIVIO N°9, Guest Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi, joined by Marco Pecorari, offer a mapping of the fashion archives international landscape at this moment in time and an overview of the many typologies and studies happening in the world we live in, divided in three sections: ‘Public & Institutional’, ‘Brands & Strategies’, ‘Private & Personal’.

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ARCHIVIO Second series

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The Nineties Issue5

ARCHIVIO N°5 inaugurates the second cycle of the magazine, this time directed by Valerio Millefoglie, and takes us back to 1991 when a very crowded Vlora ship coming from Durazzo docks at the port of Bari, bringing 20,000 refugees. It also touches on an interview with photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, and other archive stories of the time that can always speak to us about the present.

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The Eighties Issue6

How to tell the story and the energy of the 1980s? We have chosen a long correspondence with Giorgio Armani; an interview with historian Carlo Ginzburg; writer Giorgio Vasta’s fiction from the world of records; and with Gao Xingjian, the first author of Chinese origin to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, we ideally returned to the places and the period of his escape along the Yangtze River.

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The Seventies Issue7

The world of 1973 revolves and hovers around a city that is a bottomless pit of history—Naples and the cholera epidemic of 1973; Naples and the threat of bradyseism in 1970; Naples and its burning bowels in 1979; Naples and a woman in 1974 who set herself on fire in bed in a criminal lunatic asylum; Naples and the great photographer Mimmo Jodice. This issue of ARCHIVIO focuses on the 1970s, between desire for change and deep tensions, utopian impulses and oblique gazes.

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The Sixties Issue8

Guido Crepax and Sabrina Ragucci, Folco Quilici, Dacia Maraini and Pino Tovaglia, amongst others, walk us through this issue of ARCHIVIO on our journey backwards through the XX century. A focus on the 1960s, between hope for a new world and lightheartedness promises, this is the last chapter of the second series of ARCHIVIO directed by Valerio Millefoglie.

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Collectors Club5-6-7-8

A limited edition of 150 copies bringing together the last four issues of ARCHIVIO. A celebration of the second editorial series of the magazine published by Promemoria Group, directed by Valerio Millefoglie with the editorial consultancy of Daniela Hamaui.

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ARCHIVIO First series

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The Challenge Issue1Sold out

The first issue of ARCHIVIO ventures into those archives that fascinated us first and foremost as places: ancient palazzi, rooms crammed full of shelves, places brimming over with history. We met the archivists and this magazine was created to give voice to them and to their work. Archives are important because they tell stories – our stories.

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The Crime and Power Issue2Sold out

This issue is about crime and power because archives can be considered a great laboratory of investigation. What scares us most: the silence of memory, the lack of information, or the power of those who choose what to keep in files and drawers?

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The Americana Issue3Sold out

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world? This third issue of ARCHIVIO focuses on North America, a nation we have always dreamed of as the place of freedom. This issue explores the popular worldwide imagination marked by the USA culture throughout the archives.

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The Unreal Issue4Sold out

The Unreal Issue focuses on the fluctuating relationship between real and unreal: the magazine you’ll keep in your hand is a real object, the paper is real, its weight is real, its consistency to the touch is real. The people who made it are real. Or maybe not?