About
Casum
Casum is an Italian digital publishing brand completely dedicated to design.
With an independent and international vision for what is going on and who are the real key players of the design world. A careful selection of the main trends, the best new products, the most talented designers and the top design brands.
All the publications are freely browsable online on Issuu, to reach readers from Italy to Denmark, from the Usa to China and so on.
Publications and more
Casum publishes four different formats of publications: Casum Design Brands, Casum Awards, Casum Lookbook, and – last but not least – Casum Selection. But another format will be online in 2025: Casum View, the visual directories of the world's top design brands in a product category.
The spearhead of the business is Casum Data Bank, which lists the best international design brands and from which the data published on Casum Design Brands are extracted.
The founder
Emanuele Mingozzi
Founder & Director"The basic idea of Casum is to make monothematic and professional publications dedicated to design available to everyone. With a digital and innovative approach.
Given the vast horizons of the world of design, selection is the most important factor of our publishing activity, together with our innate passion for design.
A passion shared with companies, designers, fairs, retailers, galleries and all other people and activities who play a role in the world of design".
Emanuele on LinkedIn
The timeline
The story
The beginning
Founded in April 2015 by Italian architect Emanuele Mingozzi, Casum was at its very beginning a publication about design which ranged from interior projects to design reportages about companies and shops. The content was varied but the publication was completely free, digital and independent, thanks to the upload on Issuu, the Californian digital publishing platform.
The second issue of June 2015 was instead entirely dedicated to Salone del Mobile di Milano, with reportages of a limited selection of Salone exhibitors, SaloneSatellite designers and FuoriSalone events. Hence the step to publish only monothematic issues about fairs reportages was short, thing that happened starting from the fifth issue of Casum, about Salone del Mobile 2016.
The development
In 2017 the format was perfected and Casum Lookbook was born: a more visual version of the previous issues dedicated to fairs reportages.
One issue later, the Casum Awards and Casum Trends appeared in Casum Lookbook.
In 2018 the first guide of Casum Selection was launched, with the best brands to see at Cersaie, many of which would then be published on the related Casum Lookbook.
In 2019 began the work on a database of the best international design brands, driven by the need to realize a publication with this list of selected brands. The newly created database, called Casum Data Bank, is the basis that led in 2022 to the birth of Casum Design Brands, the fundamental B2B online tool that was missing before.
Casum Media kit
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