NOMAD: a cutting-edge city guide about contemporary culture

The city guide for creative community, NOMAD is about contemporary culture and people

Interview with Ambra Medda

Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami, speaks about the concept behind Design Miami/, design, architecture and the upcoming annual event December 3rd to December 6th, 2008.
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New issue! NOMAD Map Miami

Page images from NOMAD Zurich-Basel Final Edition

Concept

“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.

About us

Editorial office
Via dei Transiti, 12
20127 Milan, Italy
tel.: +39-02.89071250 / fax.: +39-02.97383859

Editor in chief: Dominique Kuroyanagi
Editor in chief: Samuel Fuyumi Namioka

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)

Distribution

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...)

Publications

NOMAD

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

NOMAD Zurich - Basel (double issue) Final edition

NOMAD Tokyo

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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NOMAD Maps

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.

NOMAD Map Zurich-Basel

NOMAD Map Milan

NOMAD Map Tokyo

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Future publications

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

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...)