This edition is an exploration of the blues through emotional archeology. What makes us miss the things and people we miss? Is it important to cry? Why is romanticism a source of the blues, and what comfort food do we turn to when blue? What do we do in order to heal? What do designers and artists have to say on creating while feeling blue? How does it affect our creative process?

Going through the blues is a deeply personal journey, and so is this issue. Personal, subjective, unfiltered, as felt and lived by us and our contributors. Light at times, heavy at times. Just like the blues. We feel humbled and grateful to our contributors who have chosen to share pieces of themselves — of their blues, of their grief, of their hopes. 

The Blue Sindrom is a collection of these pieces. Treat them kindly.

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Sindroms is a journal of monochrome states of mind, published in print biannually. Curating its content based on specific colours, it investigates them across culture, and immerses its readers in the feelings and moods evoked by each colour.

Issue #5: Evergreen Sindrom

The Evergreen Sindrom is a journey we embarked on before our world was enthralled by a pandemic that disrupted our ways of living. It felt like the perfect timing to explore green - a colour that breathes life; in all its forms - considering the moment in time our world found itself. Now, this issue feels more relevant than ever. These times call for industries to rethink processes and values, and for humans to rethink their approach to consumerism, their everyday lifestyle, and contribution to society. The world has slowed down, taking a step back to get a bird’s-eye view of the new reality, and the new behaviours we aim towards.  

In this issue:

Green is, above all, the colour of life. In this edition, we explored life in all its forms, with a particular interest in the evergreen. What does prosperity mean now, how do we manage to continue growing, reinvent ourselves, and change our ways? What is evergreen design? Why is the human-nature relationship so vital? Is it important to talk to plants? When did we lose our connection to the natural world, and did we leave anything valuable behind? What is some of the evergreen wisdom that’s been passed down through generations? We explore all of this within 160 pages of conceptual, carefully-curated editorials, thought pieces and striking visual essays.

Covers by Aiste Ambrazeviciute and Anne Marie Jo.

Issue #3: White Sindrom

In this issue:

The third issue, White Sindrom, explores our own interpretation of white through the concept of a blank canvas—a starting point for every story in this issue.

For us, a blank canvas is not only an object in a painter’s atelier. It is the possibilities of nothingness reaching beyond, and it represents the transitions between creativity, emptiness, minimalism, balance, calmness and perfectionism, the main themes this issue explores throughout its 186 pages.

We present the blank canvas of different creatives across multiple industries. These include writer Agnese Kleina (Benji Knewman), illustrator Maria Sainte, poet Phoebe Wang, photographer and set designer duo Paris se quema, architect Andrew Trotter, stylist Denis Bjerregaard, graphic designer Luke Hayman, and many more. We take on topics such as the creative block, old age, the stigma of creativity, the work-life balance, wiping the slate clean, emotional minimalism, among many others - through conceptual, carefully curated editorials, thought pieces and visual essays.

Last images credits: Julie Bjarnhoff, Thomas Wiuf Schwartz