The idea of a “visual magazine” with a focus on pictures is now well established. As one of the first publications in this genre, VORN debuted in 2004 as a hybrid between a magazine and a book and won numerous awards. VORN took the playful approach to visuality to the extreme. Issue four, for example, was a Claudia Schiffer special, where over 20 artists worked together with the supermodel on the subject Claudia Schiffer. The eighth edition was completely free of text – no headlines, sublines, or articles, no editorial, no imprint. The names of the contributors were only published on the VORN blog. VORN 9 was a silent movie and the first movie magazine ever. It was created by two dozen directors and countless contributors. The film was accompanied by an orchestra that played a specially composed symphony. Over the years, VORN has been a field of experimentation and gave art directors, artists, photographers and other creative people from all over the world the opportunity to design autonomously, without subject specifications and without restrictions and thus to reform the magazine medium. In 2024 we will close the chapter on VORN with a book presenting an annotated retrospective of all the issues, including the 10th edition, as “a magazine in a book”. … >