ARCHIVIO MAGAZINE

Distributed across 4 continents, in bookstores, museum bookshops, galleries, and concept stores in various countries. 11 collectible issues (6 of which are already sold out), two completed editorial cycles, and one in progress. All enhanced by collaborations with leading professionals from the international cultural scene, and a total of more than 300 archives explored.

As the world moves forward, archives become broader, richer, more articulate-they are constantly changing. Hence the need for Promemoria to build around ARCHIVIO editorial cycles consisting of four issues each, through which to explore this constantly evolving subject. A new look, new editorial board, and new format to reflect the change in structure, objective, and perspective.

ARCHIVIO is an independently published magazine of international scope, printed as a limited edition entirely on Fedrigoni paper. The first four issues of the magazine quickly sold out, thanks to The Crime and Power Issue’s winning of the 2018 Stack Award for the Best Use of Photography.

We have involved prestigious signatures through unpublished contributions and the publication of original archival materials. Writers and authors, artists and artists, designers, archivists and archivists, internationally renowned photographers and photographers have made the pages of ARCHIVIO unique, always finding new interpretations and perspectives, making the experience of the magazine a corridor that can connect the past and our present experience, and perhaps even the future.

These include Letizia Battaglia, Giorgio Armani, 2001 Nobel Prize winner for literature Gao Xingjian, artists Nathalie Du Pasquier and Lucia Pescador, Mimmo Jodice, Oscar winner Dante Ferretti, Dacia Maraini, Valerio Millefoglie, Marta Sironi, Giorgio Vasta, Emmanuela Carbé and Sabrina Ragucci, Enrico Deaglio, Andrea Pinotti, Catherine Dunne, Bruce Sterling, John Foot, Carlo Ginzburg, Valerio Magrelli, Folco Quilici, Dino Buzzati, Paolo Rumiz, Carla Sozzani, Olivier Saillard, Andrew Bolton, Marilia Pederbelli, Michele de Lucchi, journalist Riccardo Luna, and photographer Jean Pigozzi.
With forays into the archival heritage of Swatch, the Turin Cinema Museum, Olivetti, TIM, the Archives Nationales de France, the Fondazione Fiera Milano, the Turin Polytechnic, the Cassero LGBT Center, the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, the Fondazione Corriere della Sera, La Triennale di Milano, and some of the world's most important fashion archives, including Dior, Balenciaga, and Yves Saint Laurent, to name a few. There is also no shortage of design archives, including Casva, The Design Museum, Fornasetti, Fredericia, Ettore Sottsass, and Gae Aulenti, as well as technology archives such as the Musée Bolo, MoMA, Fondazione 101, the Italian Institute of Technology, the Computer History Museum and the Steve Jobs Archives.

The Tech Issue is curated by Massimo Banzi,co-founder of Arduino, and Cecilia Botta, Head of Memories at Promemoria Group and technology historian. Editorial direction is by Daniela Hamaui, while the artistic direction is by Alessandro Gori.
The cover, specially designed by artist Ailadi, is a digital tribute to the dawn of computing: created using PETSCII, the character set of 8-bit Commodore computers, it opens a window onto the aesthetics of “vintage” technological imagery.
The Tech Issue also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the numerous, and sometimes young or hidden, technology archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria Group visually developed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.

ARCHIVIO vaunts a readership of over twenty thousand people across four continents, a community uniting different countries across Europe, America, Asia and Oceania, thanks to partnerships with Frab's Magazine & More, Les Presses Du Réel, Antenne Books, RA & OLLY LTD.

There are many independent book shops, museum stores, and art galleries which distribute the magazine, including Paper Room in Rome, Fondazione Sozzani in Milan, Idea Books in Amsterdam and Basheer Graphic Books in Singapore.