FU Review Berlin N10 — Benedetta Pompili

Design, ceramics, editorials

Benedetta Pompili (IT, 1995) is a social designer based in Amsterdam. She is founder of vuur collective, LINA fellow and among the care-takers of the ceramic workshop of Gerrit Rietveld Academie. A dedication to materials identifies her practice, intertwining the cultural background they carry, as well as their environmental impact. To research & design becomes a way to learn technique, retrace tradition, and share knowledge by thinking and acting in an interdisciplinary way.

FU Review Berlin N10 Restoration

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Printed on FSC paper, Berlin, 2023.

FU Review N10: Restoration showcases a selection of Audrey Lorde's touching letters and poetries from the University Archive of the Freie Universitat Berlin. The publication hopes "to encourage others to explore and examine Lorde’s writings, correspondence, and lectures in future projects." For the publiction, the scans of the original were kept untouched, showing the signs of time, the stains, the archival marks.
The documents accompany new writings from Eric Abalajon, Indie Laras Bacas, Victor F. Breidenbach, Onyedikachi Chinedu, Iva Damjanovski, Taiwo Hassan, Shalom Kasim, Yaa Konadu, Arbër Selmani, Charika Swanepoel, Ilias Tsagas, and Allison Whittenberg.

The editorial design of the journal has been curated with Eleonora Toniolo and with the help of the editors in chief, since 2019. The design was thought to smoothen out the readers’ experience of the journal, that had been abruptly changed multiple times in the previous issues. The typographic choices and the grid are designed for a pleasurable and airy reading with a sensitivity to detail. Each issue is unique, as the design is lightly adapted to the temporary main theme and the practice of the visual artist, changing as well for each edition.

For information or collaborations: info@benedettapompili.com

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