Info

• 132 pages, 23 × 31 cm
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN 978-3-948174-19-4

Nominations / Awards
Gold Award – ADC*Europe Design Award 2024 (Editorial Design Category)
Golden Nail – ADC Design Award Germany 2024 (Editorial Design category)
Joseph Binder Award 2024 (Editorial Design)

Editorial staff
Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin and Sebastian Wells

Authors / Artists
Dmytro Chepurnyi, Ivanna Kozachenko, Max Tsukan, Yuliia Manukian, Andrii Ushytskyi, Oleskandra Kalinichenko, Lesha Berezovskiy, Alevtina Kakhidze, Daniil Russov, Sasha Naselenko, Dima Tolkachov, Sebastian Wells, Vsevolod Kazarin, Emine Ziytadinova

Design
Collective Scrollan

Since October 2022, editors Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin, and Sebastian Wells, along with art direction by Anne-Lene Proff and Peter Bünnagel from the Scrollan collective and the Berlin-based publisher SHIFT BOOKS, have been working on a second issue of the magazine. The 132-page issue features works by talented and established Ukrainian artists in the fields of photography and graphic design, as well as texts on photography, film, contemporary art, literature, and, above all, the everyday lives of young people in Ukraine who are trying to make sense of the multifaceted reality of life under the constant threat of Russian aggression.

The new issue focuses particularly on the stories of people from the currently occupied territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea, who have been confronted with war since 2014. The cover of the new issue was designed exclusively for Solomiya by the renowned artist Alevtina Kakhidze. It depicts a woman surrounded by missiles and drones, raising her hand. "Our hands have become more skillful in war," says Kakhidze, who has already created hundreds of drawings during the war and has drawn a tardigrade—the only living creature to have survived the Chernobyl nuclear disaster—on the back cover of the magazine.

“This magazine, created in Kyiv and designed in Berlin, is a testament to resistance through the means of art,” explain the editors.

Gold award in the Editorial Design category – Magazine of the ADC (Art Directors Club) Design Award 2024

Jury comment:

“…From multiple perspectives and at the highest design level, they bring readers closer to what it means to have to live with the ongoing, deadly threat. With their photographic observations, subjective visual experiments, hand-drawn illustrations, and sensitive texts, the creators offer authentic insights that allow us to share in their individual experiences.”

The jury is more than impressed by the creative energy that is fighting against this still ongoing brutal war, which is slowly losing media attention. The attention caravan moves on. Solomiya remains.