Hostilia n.1, “Pressure”

Published May 12, 2026

Hostilia is an independent magazine developed during a week-long workshop at Politecnico di Milano held by Jeremy Francis Leslie, founder of magCulture.

The project investigates friction as a defining condition of contemporary reality. In a landscape shaped by frictionless digital interactions, Hostilia reintroduces resistance as both editorial stance and physical experience. Built around the concept of hostile contact – the encounter between forces that generates pressure, wear, and transformation – the magazine adopts a critical position, addressing political, economic, and social imbalances.

The first issue, “Pressure“, unfolds through four stages (Accumulation, Compression, Deformation and Breaking Point), mirroring how tensions build and eventually rupture.
Materiality becomes part of the narrative: metallic surfaces, rigid inserts and exposed binding turn the magazine into a resistant object, where contact is not neutral, but always leaves a trace.

The magazine’s objective was to convey a sense of pressure through typography and layout deformation. For instance, OT Neue Montreal Squeezed and Migra are occasionally distorted to reflect the magazine’s conceptual approach.

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