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The latest number FUTU magazine is devoted to SUSTAINABILITY. The magazine’s publisher gave the advertising space for free to a few NGOs. The leading topic of FUTU 8 is the responsibility for the natural environment. Moreover, in FUTU 8 you will find articles about the sustainable marketing, design, art and fashion.

In FUTU 8 you will find the latest news about design responsibility, pro-ecological business strategies and greenwashing. Check it out and meet our magazine’s guests – Marjorie Ellis Thompson, the CRM guru, Kenya Hara – the Japanese designer and art director of Muji, David Carlson – design expert, Piotr Jagielski and Paweł Kudzia – the Polish CSR pioneers.

Each FUTU consists of 3 parts: SELF, PEOPLE and SURROUND.

What can you expect to find in FUTU 8?

SELF: exclusive interview with Kenya Hara

PEOPLE: interview with Marjorie Ellis Thompson, Nobuyoshi Araki photos (Painting Flowers cycle), Alexander von Reisvitz photos (Animal Stars cycle), coverage on the artist Olafur Eliasson, coverage on the fashion designer Husseyn Chalayan

SURROUND: inspiring overview on modern design – interview with Matali Crasset, Wieki Sommers, Olivier Tilbury, Marti Guixe, 5.5 designers,Julia Lohman, D-vision, Junya Ishigama and Eduard Francois

Moreover, the latest FUTU was designed by FROST DESIGN studio, which created a unique graphic concept making the SUSTAINABILITY idea the best-defined. VINCE FROST designed 16 pages of ad pages for the selected international NGOs striving for promoting the sustainable development. In making the magazine, we have also cooperated with the Polish EFTE Group, which promotes the ethical consumption and fair trade. FUTU 8, as well as all previous 7 numbers, was printed out on a certified ecological paper FSC.

The cooperation with the top studios in the making of FUTU is a part of the magazine’s concept – the previous FUTU editions were co-designed by eg. Studio 8 Design or Albert Folch Studio.

FUTU SUSTAINABILITY is available around the world. You can buy it online (http://new.futumag.com/) or in concept stores and galleries such as Colette, Palais de Tokio and Tate Modern, Magma Bookstore. You can also find a short movie presenting the FUTU 8 on YouTube

Related posts:

1. FUTU – Design Magazine
2. T-post / The Wearable Magazine
3. My Design Walk 2010
4. One Page Magazine
5. Project Projects

Tags: decoration, design, Illustration, magazine, Photography, Typography

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