COLORS Notebook was created so everyone could hear what you want to say. It strongly advocates and encourages freedom of speech and expression no matter who or where you are in the world at the moment.

We are very proud of the enthusiastic response that we got from you and thank you for the wonderful work that you have accomplished. Since the project began, we have received Notebooks far beyond our expectations.

COLORS Notebook started out as a blank issue of COLORS. We invited our loyal readers and their friends/family and colleagues to write, illustrate and design it. The project springs from a project with Reporters sans Frontières, an association which fights to protect freedom of speech for all and defends journalists all over the world. Each copy of COLORS Notebook we have received is unique. It is the first issue without filters or an editorial department. It is a volume in which you are free to tell stories that nobody ever wanted to listen to and put your own message out to the world through words, illustrations and photos. It is a way to share your personal notes and thoughts.
It is a different medium to give a real voice to “the rest of the world”.

Over the last year the Notebooks have been submitted by individuals, families, friends and peers who then sent them back to us. Thousands of people like you, yet different from you, have been, and continue to, submit them. Copies of COLORS Notebook will be shown to the public in paper and digital formats and have been exhibited at the Pompidou Center in Paris in October 2006 and the Triennale di Milano in 2007.
The most innovative and interesting authors will become part of the Fabrica network of correspondents.

Each Notebook is completely unique. Create your copy. Once it’s done send it back to us. It will become part of the COLORS Notebook Project. Please include a profile of yourself or your creative group.

Let COLORS Notebook be your tabula rasa and do whatever you want with it. This project celebrates the importance of people around the world and allows them to have a valuable voice.

Keep on the lookout for COLORS Notebook Volume A, the first volume compiling the submissions that have been sent from all over the world. They will all be featured on the website with proper credits and contact details of the artists.

See the Video (Right Click and “Save as” to Download, 14Mb, Quicktime required)
Video credits: Alex Healey/COLORS/Fabrica

We thank you again for your important contribution.

Download for more information:
English - Italiano - Español - Deutsch - Russian - Japanese - Korean

COLORS Notebook in action…

For more information and your blank copy* write to:
notebook@fabrica.it
or via Post
COLORS Notebook Project
Via ferrarezza
31020 Catena di Villorba (TV)
Italy

* Note: This volume of COLORS Notebook is free, just as freedom of expression should be.