JOIA 61

After more than fourteen years of traveling through various paths of editorial design, Chilean online and print magazine JOIA 61 opens up to new forms of graphic and conceptual exploration in its latest issue.

Starting with the cover and following with each of its pages, it becomes clear that the goal with this edition was to bring together all kinds of resources and formats making them coexist without any editorial restriction, while keeping in mind that the quality of the work had to be at the level of each artistic project featured. Portraits, illustrations, photographs, posters, and 3D objects are combined in a visual and colorful experiment that breaks with the rectilinear layout that was more common in past issues of the magazine.

The typefaces created by the Canadian studio Pangram Pangram Foundry are an important part of this process or renovation, accompanying the images throughout the magazine, not only to tell the written story of each featured project and interview, but also as a valuable design resource in itself.

However, this creative process does not forget those who are truly important in the magazine: the artists that it seeks to empower. Christian Rex Van Minnen starts the journey with his harmonious and discordant paintings, followed by Sam Gregg’s images of Naples, the innovative designs of Obby & Jappari, the photographs with a social background by Felipe Romero, the historical exploration of Juan Brenner, the lethargic compositions of Stefy Loret de Mola, the juxtaposition of eras and objects by Julien Boudet, the pictorial works based on memes by Robert Roest, and Mike Brodie’s four years of train hopping.

To complete the JOIA 61, the JOIAESTUDIO team designed two zippered hoodies, a crewneck, three t-shirts, and a totebag, with some of the images and typographic play that are also found in the magazine. These items are already on sale only for Chile at JOIA MARKET.

JOIA 61

Designers: JOIAESTUDIO
Art Director: Andrés Tapia
Creative Director: Álvaro Fierro
Authors: Adriana Conde, Cristóbal Gaete, Camilo Rojas, Raúl Goycoolea
Editors: Adriana Conde
Publishing house: Self-published
Release date: October, 2021
Volume: 143 pages
Language: Spanish
Price: € 5.60 (Chile)
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