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Belio Magazine, Issue 015: Robots
Belio Magazine (Pablo & Javier IA, eds.)
Issue 015 of *Belio*, the experimental art and design magazine out of Madrid, takes robots as its theme. Belio sits somewhere between a magazine and a book — a thick, densely designed collection of artwork, illustration and interviews with artists from around the world, printed in both Spanish and English. This "Robots" issue gathers contemporary artists, illustrators and designers riffing on machines, automata and the human–robot imagination. It's the kind of object collected as much for its own design and printing as for any single article inside. It speaks to followers of independent publishing, contemporary illustration and design culture.
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The book
Belio was an independent experimental art and design magazine based in Madrid, Spain, publishing themed issues alongside online content and cultural events through the 2000s. Each issue functioned like a curated anthology — a large, lavishly designed compendium of art and interviews in both Spanish and English — and issue 015 organizes that around the theme of robots.
How to read it
Read it as a browsable snapshot of mid-2000s independent art and illustration rather than a linear text: the pleasure is in the images, the featured artists and the object itself. Themed issues like this were prized by collectors of contemporary graphic culture.
For more context
Belio published a run of similarly themed issues (for example a later "Freak Show" edition) that together document a lively moment in Spanish independent publishing.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Belio Magazine (Pablo & Javier IA, eds.)
- Publisher
- Belio Magazine
- Place of publication
- Madrid
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Art
- Location
- Colorado