VIVE LA COLLABORATION!

The idea is simple: get artists and designers who have or have never worked together to create a spread for a magazine with a small run but wide circulation.

Stereo is the initiative of a small group of designers and artists. In four years’ time Stereo has formed fruitful collaborations with over 50 artists and designers in five publications and more than 20 exhibitions internationally. The printed magazine is sold in 17 shops in nine different countries spread over three continents (and of course, on our website).

Stereo has addressed the magazine production process in The Magazine (2nd issue), lost ideologies in La Revolution, c’est chic (3rd issue), the open source and the internet in Remote Control (4th issue) and time and space in Non Stop (5th issue).

We publish the magazine every six months, largely self-funded. With every issue shape and size changes, editions are hand-numbered and the first 50 are released as special editions. These SEs are originally boxed with lots of extras like silkscreen prints, editioned art works, (audio) CDs, a T-shirt, etc.

Alongside the printed matter, Stereo has been involved with new media since its conception. We commissioned Media artist and Web developer Nick Koning to build an online sketchbook back in 2003/4, on which all members could log on, upload and position sketches, found images and texts.

Spillage is Stereo magazine’s spin-off. All core members are represented on this blog as well as the occasional guest editor. This is not a community based, social networking web site, nor one person’s blog, but a defined space with unlimited possibilities for a set number of creatives.

If you want to join the Stereo network, you can find all information under join.

For all others, please enjoy this safe haven of creative freedom.
I know we do.

The Stereo team