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Barcode Guide in Magazines: ISBN, ISSN or No Code?
Guide to ISSN and ISBN codes: what they are, why they are needed, how to use them and how to get them. If you are planning a magazine or an editorial publication it is good to know these codes and why they can be an added value for your project. In this guide we try to explain to you why we always recommend that you wear them.
Yogurt Magazine in our February Secret Mag Club
Kitsch, grotesque, disturbing, but precisely for this fascinating, to leaf through page after page with voyeuristic obsession. We could briefly describe the latest issue of Yogurt magazine, the Italian contemporary photography magazine that we hosted in our Secret Mag Club in February and which dedicated its second edition to bad taste. We asked Francesco Rombaldi, editor in chief and curator of Yogurt, to tell us something more about this project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.