COLORS MAGAZINE VISITS MALASPINA UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE

Lecture on money as an elastic concept

Colors is set to visit Malaspina University-College. An international magazine celebrated for its inventive approach to photography, design and creative writing, Colors editor Benjamin Joffe-Walt will present the magazine’s latest issue, on money as imagined, and deliver a lecture on money as an elastic concept.

Sponsored by Malaspina University-College and Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s  communication research centre where Colors is produced, the event is intended to provide insight into unusual ways of approaching, using and creating money, as well as the creation, formation and editing of a concept-based magazine.

Colors Magazine, a quarterly magazine sold in over 40 countries and published in four languages, was established in 1991 under the leadership of Tibor Kalman and Oliviero Toscani. Using conceptual design, visual language, and creative writing, Colors' themes range between the serious, such as ecology, violence, monoculture and HIV to the outright frivolous, such as shopping, fashion, and toys. Colors has been described as one of the 51 best magazines of all times (Good Magazine), one of the trendiest cultural magazines on the world scene (La Vanguardia) and was recently featured in Inside the great magazines, a trilogy exploring the influence of magazines on our social, political and cultural identities.  www.colorsmagazine.com

Benjamin Joffe-Walt, editor of Colors,  has written for the Economist and BBC and served as a foreign correspondent for both the Guardian and Sunday Telegraph. He was awarded Africa Print Journalist of the Year by CNN in 2005 and Young Journalist of the Year by the British Foreign Press Association in 2004. His work has appeared in the Sunday Independent, Star, Cape Times, Noseweek, ThisDay and the Mail & Guardian.

The Department of Anthropology at Malaspina University-College seeks to reinforce the theory, knowledge and methods acquired through study by providing students with opportunities to apply that information. In 1996, in Vancouver's Chinatown, Malaspina students took part in the first urban archaeology project ever undertaken in that city. Other areas of application include human rights facilitation, resource management, cultural sensitivity training and the interaction of culture and the environment. www.mala.ca/anthropology.

Presentation, lecture and discussion:
Friday, May 16 at 14:30

Building 356, Room 109,
Malaspina University - College
Nanaimo Campus

Press / Interview requests:

Angela Quintavalle
Tel: +39  0422  516209
angie@fabrica.it

 

 Photos of the speaker and the latest issue of Colors available on request. 

 May 2008

 

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