“COLORS NOTEBOOK” (2006-2007) collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières especially impressed me. This is a project that selected 3000 people all over the world to create an original magazine that uses COLORS as a motif; COLORS is a magazine that the FABRICA has been publishing in four languages since 1991. People made various magazines from a different perspective depending on their countries, cultures and the differences and problems they have. One example was cut in the shape of a heart at the center while others consisted of a collage of photos and featured a used-ticket stuck on the magazine. What was really interesting was seeing the variations in all the designs.

By the way, I could not forget about how shocked I was when I first saw COLORS magazine. I though that COLORS was so much different from other fashion or culture magazines as it came across as very strong visually in addition to the simple and clear words that attracted me so much. The magazine was nothing but a feeling of “I must tell someone about it.”

COLORS NOTEBOOK expresses that impulse to tell everyone you know about it, I think. A child in South Africa, a prisoner in China, an astronaut or a student of Art School, each person’s life and story appears in their original magazine. Beyond culture, status, age and race, the magazine carefully creates each page so that they could tell “themselves.” Each issue of COLORS tells us there are still a lot of things we should know about and work towards in the world.

FABRICA: LES YEUX OUVERTS
Date: January 18th – March 2nd, 2008
Open: 11:00 – 19:00 (Closed on Monday)
Place: Shiodomeitalia Creative Center
Address: 2-14-1 Higashishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
http://www.fabrica.it