NOMAD: a cutting-edge city guide about contemporary culture

The new city guide for the creative community. It's about contemporary culture and people!

Next issue: nomadpaper Basel (launch DesignMiami/ and ArtBasel, June)

Interview with Paolo Ulian

Paolo Ulian at his studio in Milan. Photography by Luigi Di Pasquale

Paolo Ulian was born in Massa in 1961. He studied Fine Art at Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and then a Diploma in Industrial design at ISIA of Florence. From 1990 to 1992 he worked with Enzo Mari in Milan. He won the Design for Europe Award and Design Report Award and has collaborated with Driade, Fontana Arte, Luminara, Zani & Zani and Droog Design among others. (more...)

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Stefano Arienti and Mario Airò at Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva

Stefano Arienti, born in 1961, lives and works in Milan and Mario Airò, born in 1961, lives and works in Genova. Both Italian artists participated at the exhibition "Bookmark" at Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva.
In this exhibition, these two Italian artists showed the variation of how they could transform the book, a medium, a container of thoughts into objects with some subtle operations, for instance, cutting out all the text margins or punching the pages. Some are still "readable" but some aren't anymore... (more...)

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Page image from NOMAD Milan 2nd edition
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“Travelers ordinarily have only the glasses they have
brought with them from their own country to use for
observation and entirely neglect to have their glasses
recut in the country where they are going”.
The father of ethnography - tireless traveler Jan Potocki (1761 - 1815)

NOMAD is a new kind of guide that breaks away from any kind of existing guide books, offering its readers a direct grip on the contemporary face of a city. Definitely on the edge, NOMAD is however much more than address book listing hot boutiques and restaurants. Through comments, interviews, debates driven by striking local and foreign personalities, NOMAD wishes to offer outsiders a sharp view of a city's current developments in all creative fields including art, fashion, design and architecture. Each edition is accompanied by a practical pocket-sized map packed with the best addresses introducing local contemporary culture.

In this age of globalisation and multiculturalism, travel has become commonplace though cultural distance still persists, aspiring to look beyond the mere exotic side of other cultures and to celebrate the differences. In promoting local contemporary culture, NOMAD wishes to foster mutual understanding among individuals from different nationalities and backgrounds and to provide an opportunity for creative exchanges.

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20127 Milan, Italy
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Publisher and editor in chief: Dominique Kuroyanagi
Editor in chief: Samuel Fuyumi Namioka

Global communication: Natalia Signoroni

Art direction: 515 creative shop, Turin

Correspondent:
Marisa Abate, Rio de Janeiro - Rome; Connie Dekker, Amsterdam; Alba Braza, Valencia: Beniamino Foschini, Berlin

Publisher: Yuzu lab Sarl, Geneva (mail us)

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NOMAD's distribution partners worldwide - contemporary art & design museums and fairs, selected design hotels, etc. (more...)

Idea Books, Amsterdam - www.ideabooks.nl - worldwide in selected boutiques and museums as well as art and travel bookshops. (See bookshop list...)

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NOMAD series present major cities around the world: Tokyo, Milan, Zurich, Basel

Japan: rarely has a country aroused so many clichés and contradictory feelings. The pole of attraction of a new world oscillating between energy and inertia, tradition and modernity, Japan hardly ever leaves people indifferent. The land of the rising sun is today probably the world's greatest source of inspiration in contemporary artistic fields. NOMAD Tokyo above all wishes to stimulate curiosity and open up windows of understanding onto the new aesthetic codes offered by Japan. (more...)

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A pocket-size map, a smart address book, each of the columns (architecture, art, design, fashion, music, movie...) is curated by a specialist, introducing the best addresses with a brief comment.

The updated version available on the web.

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Next issues: Milan Final edition, Miami, Tokyo 2nd edition, Switzerland transverse, Amsterdam, Copenhagen

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NOMAD features a limited number of well-targeted advertisers. Besides having a strong international presence their profiles are in tune with the NOMAD spirit - creative and contemporary. (see Ad Kit...)

Illustration by Gilda Scaglioni