Scope
Magazine Design, Editorial, Concept, Final Art
COLORS Magazine
United Colors of Benetton
Fabrica is a communication research centre and creative studio based in Treviso, Italy, founded by Benetton Group. Admission to Fabrica is awarded through a competitive grant and brings together young creatives from around the world to collaborate across design, photography, writing, video, and interactive media. Known for its experimental and socially driven projects, Fabrica functions as both a creative incubator and a platform for producing culturally relevant work — including COLORS Magazine, its flagship publication.
During Magdalenas time at Fabrica she worked as an Art Director for COLORS, a groundbreaking publication known for its bold visual storytelling and global, human-centered themes. I art directed three issues — COLORS 77: Sea, COLORS 78: Dance, and COLORS 79: Collector.
COLORS — The Sea
Issue 77, 2010
EN / IT / FR / ES
Issue 77 of COLORS explores humanity’s deep and varied relationship with the sea — as a place of dreams, danger, survival, and transformation. From landlocked individuals seeing the ocean for the first time, to South Korean fisherwomen, Nicaraguan smugglers, and Inuit communities facing climate change, the magazine weaves personal stories with global themes. Augmented reality expands the experience, while activists like Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson and Shark Angels highlight the urgent need for marine protection.
Paperback, 96 pp. + 4 p. postcards, 230x287 mm, offset.
Credits
Creative Director: Erik Ravelo
Art Directors: Magdalena Czarnecki, Joshua Levi
Colors Dance
Issue 78, 2010
EN / IT / FR / ES / KO
COLORS 78 celebrates dance as a universal language of expression, identity, and connection. From Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta’s journey from Havana to London’s Royal Ballet, to viral dance sensations like the Cebu prison inmates and British teen Beckii Cruel, the issue explores how movement transcends culture, age, and geography.
The magazine looks beyond viral fame to tell the real stories behind the dancers. Many of the stories featured were originally discovered through YouTube — a platform that, at the time, was reshaping the way dance was shared and seen around the world. Augmented reality integrated into the magazine allowed readers to go straight from page to screen, diving deeper into these performances and the people behind them.
Paperback, 104 pp., 230x287 mm, offset and UV coat.
Credits
Creative Director: Erik Ravelo
Art Directors: Magdalena Czarnecki, Alizée Freudenthal
Graphic Designer: Emmanuel Plougoulm
Colors Collector
Issue 79, 2010
EN / IT / FR / ES / KO
To mark its 20th anniversary, COLORS dedicated issue 79 to collectors — people who amass and organize objects that reveal something deeper about culture, memory, and identity. From banana labels and used tea bags to 600 vintage toasters, the issue explores how ordinary items become extraordinary through passion and context.
With contributions from photographer Martin Parr and international design critics, Collector is a journey through personal obsessions, design history, and the human need to document and define the world through objects — including, in one story, a COLORS reader who’s collected every issue for 20 years.
Inspired by the way collectors preserve their items and in order to emphasize the fact that this issue is a real ‘Special Edition’, the magazine came in bubble wrap envelopes with metallic stickers.
Paperback, 104 pp. + 2 p. postcards, 230x287 mm, offset and foil stamp.
Bubble wrap envelope with foil stamped sticker.
Credits
Creative Director: Sam Baron
Art Directors: Magdalena Czarnecki, Brian Wood
