Offtrack Magazine

An inspiring and reflective magazine for a different kind of travel: Although we buy it today like any other good, a trip is not a product like any other. Dependent on external conditions, it also has ecological, economic, social and ethical consequences. Travelling is not trivial. Today the essence of the word is blurred : we no longer know how to handle it, without impacting the world. We need to relearn how to connect with the reel experience of travelling, without buying anything. This is why we created Offtrack magazine. Offtrack is about : - local stories, itineraries, interviews with those who create the travel of tomorrow....150 pages illustrated by artists and photographs ! Offtrack magazine, it ’s a quarterly meeting to talk about travel as a social issue, about it's consequences and to think about a new way of travelling. It also wants to give inspiration, and tell stories: about music, food, adventures .. Go with us on these roads ! Discover unique places, in reel life or in your imagination! We have two goals: telling the story of travel experience in a different way, and creating with our community tomorrow's new way of travelling. - Telling the story of travel means exploring its myths, its relationship with civilisations, sharing experiences from all over the world, and giving voice to locals. - Thinking about it means meeting and talking with those who have been studying it for years, analysing it and reinventing it. Staying on the move in giving you the new lines of tomorrow's travel. Offtrack magazine, a crafted and collective work If the quarterly periodicity suited us to dig into our topics, creating a printed edition seemed to be the ideal product to show our content. We conceived this issue as a book. We wanted to collaborate with journalists and contributors which approached travel under various angles: oniric, social, lyrical, human, natural... 150 pages illustrated by telented artists, illustrators and photographers! Graphically, we wanted do deliver an arty magazine, illustrated with passion by talented artists. They will drive you to unexpected landscapes ! Going away...without "good plans", without advice or beautiful retouched photos. Long articles will be combined with artistic visuals, illustrations as photography, escaping the pages to to spark your imagination! Offtrack magazine number 1 : Posted at the corner of a pandemic and an ecological & social crisis, we wanted to ask one question for this first edition: what is the best way to travel now? Since the frontiers reopened recently, this question seems currently more relevant then ever. Do we have to stop or continue travelling like we always did ? Between the ones who act for no travel, and the others who want to go away more then ever, this question divides and fascinates. Some people also want to go further and further away (tomorrow, the space?), but is this really the right question ? For this focus, we met sociologists, writers, geographers, tourism specialists... Several months to understand how travel is changing, to analyse and imagine its evolution. SUMMARY Our name is a tribute to every "offtrack" spirit and to music, which will be very present in each of our issues. Our summary is a wink to all those who create their own tempo. So we choose to build it like a vinyl. One the first side you will find the "reflection" track list, and the face B is here to inspire you : FACE A - After the gold rush": A news item dedicated to the spacial conquest - "I hate travelling": A review of Claude Levis Strauss' punchline - Adventurer, or adventurous? Let's find out your travelling temperament! Philo-test - Travelling... like we always did? Main topic - Tourism VS Travel Debate with Rodolphe Christin, french sociologist, author of "Voyager, encore? La vraie vie est ici", published in 2021. - Revenge travel, last chance travel... Will cynicism kill travel? - Is tourism all to be lost? Interview with Remy Knafou, MIT researcher and geographer, author of "Réinventer le tourisme", published in 2021. - Venice against cruise ships: Interview with the "anti-cruise" association that blocked the arrival of ships in the port of Venice last summer. FACE B - Mystery of the postcard: 130 years of postcards ! Portfolio of arty postcards made by artists from all over the world! - My Boring postcard, post by Yoann Vrignaud - The "beni-life at Unesco"? Urbex, PNL, cinema and street culture : Reportage in Benidorm, the city that wants to become a legend ! - "No guide." In each issue, discover a city through the eyes of its residents, with a personnal approach. N1: Lisbon... in music! - "Why are you leaving?" ITW of Céline Escalère, who went from Paris to China, alone by bike! We look at the meanings of travelling as a single woman. We talked about determination and culture shock - Highlighting the path in your journey: Lauriane Gepner (journalist) gets into the rhythm of the train, tells us about its powers on our imagination, and its revival in Europe. - Meet and cook! Talk with the cooks of the association Le récho ! We talk about exile, the power of cooking to bring people together, and how it maintains a link with memories and the country of origin as a refugee. - 120 Km to go back : Interview with Simone Santini and Giancarlo Brocchi, participant and founder of the Eroica race, perched in the Chianti mountains... - Echoes of Vesuvius: A flashback to an unbelievable concert: Pink Floyd's Live in the ruins of Pompeii, without any spectators! .... and many other themes to come! The Offtrack Magazine team: The Offtrack team is a community of enthusiasts, journalists, editors, photographers, designers, illustrators...working together with a same vision, and is growing every day! Founder and Editor: J-F Lacroix Jean François Lacroix created Offtrack magazine after 12 years spent in the travel industry, working for various companies. Over the years, the way of travelling evolved and he met a lot of new people, so he gradually came up with the idea of a magazine who would be outside of the traditional thinking, and break away the idea that travel is a product. Early 2021, he launched the creation of this number 1. He wants to join an online part to the paper in 2022. In association with Titia Thomann who's making alll the visual part, he is in charge of the interviews, and writing some reflective articles, as well as the music and cinema themes. Art Direction: Titia Thomann Titia Thomann is an artist and art director. After several years in a communication agency, she directed films, illustrations, visuals for brands (Cartier, Chanel, Patou, Lvmh...) as an independant, and exhibited several times as an artist. Since 2020, she has created her own studio: @Studio Cavalier. She directed and produced the entire graphic design of Offtrack magazine, from the video to the cover, including some illustrations of the first issue. She coordinates the entire artistic team involved in the Offtrack project. Journalists, editors and contributors: Lauriane Gepner, Yoann Vrignaud, Delphine Le Fleuvre, Sarah Vignale, Yael Dyens, Céline Escalère, Camille Parenthoine, Rémy Knafou, Rodolphe Christin, Candice Gattichi, Loukiana Leite, the Recho team, Simone Santini, Giancarlo Brocchi, Luigi Martines, Gaetan Joubert, Hanane Ahmed Chaouch, Xavier Golfier, and all the others who are not included! Illustrators: Irene Servillo, Mathilde Bedouet, Fleur Pinson, Mathilde Leroy, Melle A. from Big cartel, Titia Thomann Communication Social Networks: Sara Vignale