COLORS Notebook is the fruit of a project launched by COLORS Magazine in collaboration with the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and Reporters Without Borders, the association which sustains freedom of speech and defends journalists across the world.
Fabrica Features is an ongoing series of design collections, featuring useful and practical objects. Each piece is designed by the young artists of Fabrica, infused with their fresh and imaginative visions, for an open-minded audience.
Fabrica Features is also a network of commercial and cultural spaces currently open in Bologna and Montecatini (Italy), Lisbon (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey) and Hong Kong, with temporary stores in Paris, Rotterdam, London and now Porto.
The Stock Exchange of Visions project was initiated to provide a platform for the world leading artists, sociologists, activists, scientists and others to share their visions about the future of our planet with a broad public and let them decide if either they agree up on their thoughts or not.
The visions are categorized into five areas: culture, resources, environment and society.
Among the visionaries participating to the Stock Exchange of Visions project are: Al Gore, Youssou N’Dour, Godfrey Reggio, Mario Botta and many others.
Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts is the exhibition curated by the Centre Pompidou and presented in Paris in autumn 2006. It showcases Fabrica’s many different “souls”, demonstrating its documentary work through COLORS and photo reportages, and its more artistic, visionary and conceptual side through films and installations.
Established in 1991, under the editorship of Tibor Kalman, with the premise that diversity is positive and that all cultures have equal value, today COLORS is part of the publishing activity of Fabrica, Benetton's communication research centre. COLORS' editorial offices are situated in Fabrica's architectural complex, restored and enlarged by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and it has a network of external collaborators in the four corners of the earth.