Mellow Magazine — Winter Issue

Mellow is a quarterly print magazine that meets you with the seasons. Each issue is a ritual for your senses — immerse yourself in a world of stillness, intention, and sensory wonder. Our pages are for the curious souls who seek depth over surface, presence over distraction.

Mellow is for those who understand that mindfulness is not a checklist. Mindfulness is a way of being — where every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to inspire growth.

Passion Project: Completed for Master’s of Editorial Design at Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.
Editors: Lillian Ingabire, Gemma Bosch, and Valeria Ishitsuka
Instructors: Isabel Merino and Carol Montpart , editors of The Plant Magazine
Credits: This project was created as part of a student assignment. All images, texts, and references used throughout this work remain the property of their respective creators, artists, and copyright holders. Some visual and written materials have been edited, cropped, or adapted to align with the overall concept, tone, and design of the project. Efforts have been made to acknowledge original sources accurately.

Welcome to Mellow, a magazine for those who choose to rest in the gentle in-between.
In a world buzzing with constant notifications, the intentional act of slowing down and embracing quiet moments is what brings us peace.

Each issue of Mellow Magazine unfolds like a soft exhale, offering a retreat into stillness, wonder, and the beauty of simply being.

Here, presence becomes its own kind of poetry.

We invite you to pause, to notice, and to wonder, as you live life with intention.

Mellow is a quarterly print magazine that meets you with the seasons.

Each issue is a ritual for your senses; immerse yourself in a world of stillness, intention, and sensory wonder.

Mellow is for the curious souls who seek to pause, reflect and feel. Find yourself absorbed in stories that inspire you to simply be.

Mindfulness is not a checklist.

Mindfulness is a way of being where every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to inspire growth.

Each issue of Mellow Magazine includes a featured art series from an abstract artist.

These full-spread images are abstract and dreamy, and they float like soft clouds thought the magazine, inviting you to linger and to reflect.

In the first issue of Mellow Magazine, we are honored to feature the incredible painter Aesther Chang.

Aesther Chang paints like the earth remembers—slowly and softly, in layers that settle over time. Each of her works feels like a pause just between breaths, a manifestation of the meditative state. Using color from the world and texture from the earth, a sense emerges in her paintings that speaks to the ancient and quiet: the rhythm of change, the hum of spirit beneath the surface.

Aesther is a Taiwanese-American artist, born in Boston and shaped by seasons spent in New York, Paris, and Kyoto. Chang moves through the world like she moves through her art—gently and reverently. Her practice is rooted in slowness. Color becomes memory. Line becomes pulse. What emerges from her work is not an image, but a feeling; a sense that opens you inward.

Throughout Mellow Magazine’s winter issue, select paintings from Aesther’s "Meditations" collection appear like whispers on the page—marking moments of stillness between stories…

To visit more of the world that Aesther Chang creates, you can find her at aestherchang.art.

May the quiet guide you home.