Standart, Issue 40

Standart is an award-winning print magazine dedicated to the beauty of coffee. Every issue is ram-packed with stories of some of the brightest minds in the world of coffee.

In this issue: 

The new Standart Issue 40 is here, turning to the theme of crisis: what falls apart, what endures, and what is revealed in between.

Coffee doesn’t resolve difficulties, but it holds the room. It gives shape to conversation, softens silences, and makes time more bearable.

The issue begins in Ecuador, where a fragile yet biodiverse coffee landscape is struggling to survive.

In Rio de Janeiro, we meet surfer-barista Daniel “Boquinha”, whose life and work have been marked by resilience.

Elsewhere, we examine beauty and inequality through a single café, and step into the rapid-fire world of the Italian espresso bar.

Other essays ask what coffee’s precolonial past tells us about power, how a one-way valve on a bag of beans reflects waste and preservation, and follow Irish surfer Noah Lane as he faces both waves and business with the same resolve.

The city profile looks at Sarajevo, where coffee culture, caught between past empires and present tensions, continues as a sign of endurance and community.

Also included this quarter: a set of temporary coffee tattoos designed by Jonas Reistel.