Archivio #10 – The Design Issue

Archivio #10 – The Design Issue

ARCHIVIO N°10 explores different forms of design, from architecture to ceramics, with a specific focus on product design, underlining its ability to be able to combine functionality, art, and the needs of its time, because an object is never just an object.

For the cover and in the first pages of the magazine, Jasper Morrison assembled an imaginary archive of everyday objects from different places, made at different times, related by character perhaps or a shared understanding of what it is to be an object.

The Design Issue also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the countless (and sometimes unexpected) design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria Group visually processed by Milan-based data-viz company Accurat.

• Dimensions: 23x30.5cm
• Number of pages: 240
• Language: English 

About Archivio:

Archivio is a new series of publications by Never Sleep focused on the exploring archiving practices displaying private collections of visual artefacts, memorabilia, collecting garments and graphic curiosities. A memories wunderkammer: from rave-club culture to the youth subcultures. The first issue, curated by Gabber Eleganza, is a publication made it during the Covid lockdown, collecting and scanning Rave records store advertisements, graphics curiosity and illustration ephemera find consulting tons of old techno and rave fanzines from the early 90s from: USA, UK, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. A pure, rough and beautiful visual testimony of a unique and unrepeatable historical moment. Preface by Colin Stevan (Knowledge magazine and Velocity Press founder)