Patina — Burghi

”Patina” an editorial project about collecting; a wunderkammer that collects, conserves and displays fascinating entities. Subtracted and enhanced by accumulation, they lose their nature as goods, acquire new spatial and temporal coordinates, enter into a relationship with each other. They acquire a new patina.

Issue N°3 is about COLLECTING SOUNDS as a means of survival, a way of holding on to records that may no longer exist, as once a sound is gone, it is gone forever. Once moving entities, sounds are here acquired, organised and stored.

[ Role ]

Creative direction Curatorship Layout design

- Format: 100 x 250 mm
- Number of pages: 80
- Binding: Thread binding
- Inner pages:
Cyclus Offset 80 g
Sixties IBO 60 g
- Cover:
Favini Crush Caffè 250 g
- Typefaces:
Acumin Pro by Adobe Bradford LL by Lineto

[ Structure ]

Two readings: 'Side A' and 'Side B'.
Both contain four articles, each containing a different collection story.

The reading aims to be chaotic: the eye bounces from one side of the magazine to the other as it would do with shelves full of objects.

[ Magazine flatplan ]

[ Wunderkammer ]

(German, ‘wonder chamber’)

By the end of the 16th century the term was virtually synonymous with Kunstkammer. However, it was originally used in mid-century to describe a room containing a private collection of rare natural history specimens such as corals, but above all curiosities such as mandrakes, misshapen antlers, or narwhal tusks. Wunderkammern were predecessors of natural history museums.

[ Issues collection ]

As the magazine tells stories of collecting and caring for objects, it is also meant to be collected, treated with care; so as to go deep into the relationship with it in the various issues.

[ Credits ]

Produced during the master's degree in communication design at the Politecnico di Milano. Group project carried out with:
Corbani Federico, Fulghieri Giorgia, Gallegani Greta and Riccio Benedetta