we believe that the magazine has sprung to life with the right kind of energy, bringing together the independence, ideas and visions of contributors scattered here and there...
Founder and editor-in-chief Michela Arfiero
Founder and managing director Giordano Pozzi
Magazine design Alessandro Gori. Laboratorium mmxi
Graphic design and illustrations Stefano Mandracchia
Copy editing Jeffrey Young
Contributors and writers Hala A.Malak, Ayaki Aron Hortz, Meghan DellaCrosse, Lyra Kilston, Paola Gallio, Daniela Lotta, Guido Molinari, Matteo Pini, Lorenzo Rebediani, Anne Shisler-Hughes, Marco Tagliaferro, Simone Tosca
Contributing photographer #0 Marco De Scalzi, #1 Nitzan Krimsky, #2 Jacopo Grassi
Translations Victoria Edmenson, Alexander Taylor
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Hala A.Malak is a design critic and thinker on the Middle East and North Africa. She owns her own studio, The Design Critic and currently resides in New York City
Michela Arfiero is the editor-in-chief of Fruit of the Forest design magazine. She founded Fortino Editions, an independent publishing company specializing in digital publications, applications, and
limited-edition paper books
Meghan DellaCrosse is a writer living between New York City and Andes, a hamlet in the Catskills. Her work focuses on performance art rooted in the late 1950s–early 1960s in relation to the Fluxus group, the artist-run Something Else Press, and other related contemporaries. She has performed with Alison Knowles and considers that, and similar experiences, an extension of her research
Paola Gallio is an art curator. She is also an advisor, sculptor, sommelier and an ice-cream maker
Alessandro Gori takes a cross-disciplinary approach to graphic design. He works in Florence and is the founder of Laboratorium studio. He teaches at the University of Bologna
Jacopo Grassi is a photographer. He lives and works in Milan among other places, photographing objects and spaces as well as people, making everyday life interesting with innocent photographs
Ayaki Aron Hotrz was born in Tokyo. In 1999 he founded Studio Hortz, a consultancy office in Japan for food and fashion. He has been a curator in Italy for Japan Brand events since 2009
Daniela Lotta is an art critic and curator. She is interested in the relation between contemporary art, fashion and design. She teaches at ISIA/Faenza and the University of Bologna.
Stefano Mandracchia is a painter and a graphic illustrator. He is into Brutalist architecture.
Guido Molinari is an art and design critic who lives and works between Bologna and Venice. He has worked on the magazine Flash Art since 1995, is an exhibition curator and teaches the Theory of Perception at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice
Matteo Pini is a designer and member of the Dorothy Gray group. He teaches at ISIA/Faenza and lives in Forli, Italy
Giordano Pozzi is a designer and artist living between New York City and Verona
Lorenzo Rebediani is a “plants-man” and researcher of strange plants. He studies environmental architecture at the Politecnico in Milan and works in landscape design
Anne Shisler-Hughes has worked extensively in fine art museums in Los Angeles and New York and currently lives in New York City. She writes about material culture as we encounter and employ it for self-definition and expression—what we wear, eat, use, and inhabit—as well as the art that moves us
Marco Tagliafierro is an independent art critic and curator whose work investigates the relationship between art and design. He attended the Domus Academy and Fabrica looking for signs among different artistic disciplines. He has curated many shows with a focus on the newest generation of Italian artists
Simone Tosca is a visual artist based in Oslo. He is also a graphic and set designer, a not-yet-retired skater and noise maker
Jeffrey Young is an editor, writer, and photographer. He lives in Prague