Forte Magazine

An elegant website, in Italian and English, that also makes room for fashion, food and wine, entertainment and culture. ForteMagazine's readers are the same people who enjoy an exclusive vacation in Forte dei Marmi: strongly interested in luxury goods and services, fond of tradition yet curious and open to new things, and ready to take suggestions for a vacation devoted to taste and good living.

The brief

The client needed an editorial website that would be the exact web translation of the print magazine, both in visual and graphic appeal and in its content, which was to be organized into broad thematic areas.

Three copies of "FORTE" magazine with a cover showing a person wearing colorful earrings and a light green jacket, as a hand holds one of the copies.

Fashion magazine open to a page with a colorful bag and matching hat on the left, and various fashion accessories such as sunglasses and belts on the right.

The solution

We began by studying the magazine and drawing up a list of components that would make migrating content from print to digital as simple and immediate as possible.

We then structured DatoCMS so editors could create first- and second-level categories to assign to news items, making it easy for users to find the news they care about.

A graphic design document showing a palette of various colors, including black, white, red and neutral tones, along with a selection of distinctive typefaces for different text styles.

A web page layout design with multiple sections featuring seascapes, a straw hat on a beach, a list of articles and sample text, evoking a relaxed travel mood.

<p>A partial list of the components available to editors for building articles.</p>

A black laptop with its screen on, displaying a website featuring a photo of a natural landscape with rocks and lush vegetation under a clear sky.

Three smartphones showing the design of a digital magazine app, with prominent images, descriptive text and navigation menu options.

An open laptop showing a modern, minimalist web page featuring images of a city with tall buildings and tree-lined avenues, with well-structured text and content sections.