For the last 12 issues domus had a strong cover concept. 12 unusual images challenging perception. The black background was never meant to forcast dark times ahead. But while being in rather dark times right now, we feel it is the right time to move on.

For each new issue we will develop our own position that will then be expressed and transformed in the cover image.

"Could there be a coincidence between this 'perfect storm' in the visual and economic system and the new style of the Domus covers, beginning with this one for April (with a sequel in May)? For onlab, who created it - including the photo - the change signals an inevitable unease which the crisis brings with it. Hence even fewer elements (the plastic skin that protects the magazine object and the photo of an anonymous subject for the cover proper) contribute to the simple but good idea that more can be done with less."

"To simplify, though, doesn't mean to impoverish. And so, once again, the sum of two images - the printed cellophane and the cover photograph - creat a sort of allegory, or riddle. (...) The face of an Indian miner protecting himelf from harsh working conditions with wretched bits of cloth, almost rags, says something perhaps about thousand, proteiform mutations of costume, alias clothing, alias fashion, which in this issue (and the next) are reported and analysed together with the necessary transformations which the design system should or could undergo in this time of crisis."