Ego[n] Magazine
Issues 1-12 boxed set: Unfinished
Including 12 issues: over 370 full colour pages, 147 colour stickers, 18 original truetype fonts, a 50 ml spraycan, a pre-cut stencil set, a blank 32 page sketchbook & a DVD-based idea generator to boost your creativity.
ego[n] is an experimental graphic design "magazine" created by Florence based design collective Studio Kmzero. Half art book, half box of wonders, is a collection of twelve unpublished issues, fragments from longer, untold stories. Each number, monothematic, proposes a different point of view on contemporary graphic design and on the global themes that influenced it. From the relationship between business and creativity to visual reflections on the 9/11 attacks, from a compilation of designers' sketchbooks to a fake annual report on the www porn business; from the history of the Ascii set to an inquiry into Florence's graphic design scene... each issues takes a different approach to magazine design, changing layout, printing techniques and visual solutions.
The idea of creative collaboration is central in the production process of the magazine: in ego[n] it is possible to find young designers next to masters like Jonathan Barnbrook, Ed Fella, KesselsKramer, Karlssonwilker, and the late Alan Fletcher. Moreover, every issue of ego[n] uses original fonts by Studio Kmzero that are provided in the DVD togheter with a user license.
Printed on the quality papers supplied by Polyedra and including a tag marker sponsored by Graffbay, ego[n] promises to be "yet another overdesigned, completely useless, totally self-indulgent, inventively packaged, gadget-packed and expensively printed graphic design magazine that's good only for diehard book fetishists and geeky collectors".
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