Colors (magazine)
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Colors (stylised as COLORS) was a quarterly print magazine about 'the rest of the world' funded and published by the Italian Benetton clothing company.[1] Founded in 1991 "as a way of communicating the intelligence of the Benetton brand to an extremely sophisticated consumer",[2] it was published worldwide in multiple bilingual editions. Every issue of the magazine took a single theme and covers it from an international perspective. It was produced at the Fabrica research centre in Treviso, Italy.
History
Awards and recognition
The complete series of Colors issues was included in the 25/25 exhibition at the Design Museum, London (29 March - 22 June 2007), which featured the 25 most influential design objects of the past 25 years. Good Magazine, an American bi-monthly cultural and lifestyle publication, included the first thirteen issues under Kalman’s editorship in the ranking of the 51 best magazines of all time. La Vanguardia, a Spanish daily, described it as one of the trendiest cultural magazines on the world scene. Colors was featured within Inside the Great Magazines, a Canadian documentary trilogy exploring the evolution of magazines from their European origins to their current popularity and the powerful influence they have on our social, political and cultural identities. Issue 76 of Colors won first prize in the Arts and Entertainment Stories category of the 2010 World Press Photo Competition (with the reportage Rainbowland by Kitra Cahana) and also gained a Merit at the 89th Art Director’s Club Awards. Issue 79 was awarded the Silver Prize in the Editorial Design category at the 90th Art Director’s Club Awards.
Music
The Colors Music compilations Nordic, Cumbia, Ottomanic, Rio Funk and Inner Asian Pop were produced in co-operation with Irma Records, a Sony Music international label.
Books
Colors published the books 1000 Extraordinary Objects, 1000 Signs and Colors Extraordinary Records with Taschen, and the books Hunger and Yellow Pages with Skira Editore. Faces and Violence were both published as part of the ColorsNotebook series by Birkhäuser. Colors also produced Africa Mon Amour, a 22-page guide to the 53 countries of Africa, as a supplement to the Autumn 2010 issue of the American Good Magazine.
Exhibitions
Colors has held exhibitions in Florence, Rome, Naples, London, Istanbul, Madrid, Barcelona, Maastricht, Budapest, San Francisco, Luxembourg, Santiago, Mexico City, Bogotá, Shanghai and Sydney.[citation needed]
Documentaries
Colors documentaries focus on major diversity-based themes. In collaboration with RSI Swiss Television, Colors produced a trilogy of documentaries that explore the most forbidding places in the world: Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea; Solitude at the End of the World; and Hunters Since the Beginning of Time.
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea portrays the life of the last men left fishing the Aral Sea and won the Best Italian Documentary Prize at the
See also
References
- ^ "Colors Magazine - Benetton Group". www.benettongroup.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ "Karrie Jacobs, Contributors, Colors Magazine". Colors. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
