ARCHIVIO is an Italian magazine created with the objective of ‘expanding the frontiers of content creation from archival resources, building on the idea that the life cycle of archives does not end with their inventory, digitalisation, and reorganisation, but rather it is at that point that they can take on a new lease of life, becoming something vital, of endless potential’.
So a new definition what ‘archive' really means, perhaps. If it sounds highbrow it’s also a very attractive project for a magazine, and ARCHIVIO is an accessible, absorbing and thoughtful read, an 'ideas library' or museum you’ll come back to for intellectual nourishment, or as the publishers put it, ‘a favourites bar to refer to when in doubt or out of curiosity’. This high-spec magazine is an established favourite at Magalleria.
ARCHIVIO progresses in a series of four thematic issues, each one edited by a guest editor with a specialty in the field in cast an expert eye on the archives. After the decade series (1964, 1973, 1982 and 1990, still available but selling out), the third cycle of ARCHIVIO is dedicated to (so far) fashion and design.
About Issue 10, 'The Design Issue' from the publisher:
'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.
