Colors (magazine)
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| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| First issue | 1 July 1991 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Treviso |
| Language | English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1121-824X |
Colors (stylised as COLORS) is a quarterly magazine about 'the rest of the world'. Founded in 1991, it is published worldwide in six editions: Chinese/English, French/English, Italian/English, Korean/English, Portuguese/English and Spanish/English. Every issue of the magazine takes a single theme and covers it from an international perspective. It is produced at the Fabrica research centre in Treviso, Italy.
Tibor Kalman, Oliviero Toscani and Karrie Jacobs created the magazine in 1991, and it was produced at Kalman's design studio, M&Co, in New York City until 1993, when the magazine operations moved to Rome, followed by Paris in 1995, and then Treviso, Italy, in 1997. Since the early 1990s, Colors has maintained a global, humanistic outlook in its coverage of issues from AIDS to shopping; from 2001 onward, it became totally serious, and the only element that remains from its inception is the use of photo-journalism. From Issue 81 in 2011, Colors has been published in the form of guides to major issues for its ongoing Survival Guides series.
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, which included the first thirteen issues under Tibor 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 in 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 Directors Club Awards. Issue 79 was awarded the Silver Prize in the Editorial Design category at the 90th Art Directors Club Awards.
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.
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