Info

• 132 pages, 23 × 31 cm
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN 978-3-948174-26-2

Nominations / Awards
Grand Prix – ADC Design Award Germany 2025 ( (Editorial category)
Golden Nail – ADC Design Award Germany 2025 (Editorial Design category)
Joseph Binder Award 2024 (Editorial Design)

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

Authors / Artists
Alex Mashtaler, Asia Bazdyrieva, Beauty Studio Tripping, Commercial Public Art, Henrike Naumann, Margarita Polovinko, Maxim Dondyuk, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, Lucy Zoria

Design
Collective Scrollan

Signs of despair permeate the third issue of Solomiya, as do images brimming with love, beauty, courage, and an unquenchable longing for travel, flight, and freedom: This is how Yevhen, a young soldier from Odessa, expressed his thoughts in "War Dreams," a poignant portrait series by the Italian photographers' collective Caimi&Piccini. While Vsevolod Kazarin uses combinations of questions and photographs to prompt reflection on masculinity in war, Alex Mashtaler's as-yet-unpublished photographs contrast a youthful innocence with the relentless reality of war.

Interviews conducted by the Solomiya editorial team with Asia Bazdyrieva, Maxim Dondyuk, and Henrike Naumann about their research and artistic practice offer further insights into the complex realities of Ukraine, a country marked by both a colonial past and a present of ongoing militarization. While Ivanna Kozachenko and the artist collective Commercial Public Art examine the spatial strategies of the architecture erected by Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine, essays by Lucy Zoria and Sebastian Wells provide diverse perspectives on the life experiences of young Ukrainians abroad.

Awarded the Grand Prix »Editorial« by the ADC (Art Directors Club) Design Award 2025

Jury's reasoning:

"We are awarding the ADC Grand Prix to a magazine from the war. Solomiya means 'peace' and is a magazine that reports on life during the war in Ukraine. It is a historical document of a young generation growing up in a country where war has dominated daily life for three years now. The third issue also reflects the time of its publication: hope has given way to exhaustion. What will happen if Ukraine loses? What if I spend my entire youth in war? Could I kill to survive?"

How will I be remembered? The jury is deeply impressed by this journalistic work, which rawly and powerfully portrays a mixture of despair and death and signs full of love, beauty and courage.

Solomiya vibrates. It is pure power and emotion and the epitome of what communication and editorial design are capable of achieving. The fate of Ukraine hangs by a thread. And for young Ukrainians, Solomiya magazine is emotional support, networking, a bridge, and visibility across Europe,” commented the ADC jury.