COLORS MAGAZINE VISITS THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA

Lecture on magazine form, concept and design

Colors is set to visit the University of Victoria. 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 the diverse approaches to magazine form, concept and design.  Sponsored by BC Association of Magazine Publishers, and Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research centre where Colors is produced, the event is intended to provide insight into 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 BC Association of Magazine Publishers (BCAMP) represents, connects and promotes the BC magazine industry by uniting the talent, knowledge and skills of its publishers. BC magazines foster award-winning talent and represent some of the best periodicals published in Canada. BCAMP membership is made up of more than 75 titles, including arts and culture, news, business, lifestyle, leisure and special interest magazines. These titles represent the diverse interests of British Columbians and are read by more than one million people around the world. www.bcamp.bc.ca

 

The UVic Writing Program allows students to develop their writing skills in the imaginative genres of Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction and Drama. Workshops in poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction are supplemented by lectures on craft and courses in each genre, publishing, journalism, editing, photojournalism, audio and screenwriting, multimedia and electronic design for the Web and print. In addition to faculty and sessional instructors the department also hosts regular visits by celebrated and international writers. http://finearts.uvic.ca/writing/

 

Presentation, lecture and discussion:
Sunday, May 18 at 20:00
Fine Arts Building, Room 103 - University of Victoria

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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