What They Built in Buenos Aires

The best magazines look like they were made by people who needed them to exist. Soko is that magazine. Argentine, free, visually dense—photography that earns its space, illustration that surprises, typography used as argument rather than decoration. It turned one year old this week, and the anniversary issue is the kind of thing that makes you quietly reassess what you’ve been settling for everywhere else.

The editors Adrián Carlos Grygierzcyk and Pampa García Peña started it with a straightforward ambition: our own creative space—an experiment full of images, text, typography, and illustrations. A year in, they’re calling it a new beginning, a new vision, the kind of language that sounds like marketing copy from anyone else but reads like genuine enthusiasm from people who clearly weren’t done yet.

Contributors to this issue include Jenny Mortsell, Pablo Franco, Jonathan Zawada, and Belinda Chen. Color, sex, and formal invention running through the whole thing. It’s a free PDF, which remains one of the more generous things the internet still occasionally does.