The brainchild of hoop artist Florence Huet, YANA is a new annual publication that taps into all that is independent, creative and experimental in the zeitgeist of the worldwide juggling community. Before YANA, Huet studied entrepreneurship in Paris, juggling technique in Kiev and graphic design in Stockholm. She has toured her solo works in over a dozen countries, and her new publication is a blend of  her juggling, entrepreneurial and graphic design skills combined.

As a left-hander, I approached YANA as I do most magazines, flipping through it backward for first impressions. With this approach, I discovered that this magazine is chunky, independent, visual and textured.  It’s also colorful, diverse, multi-lingual. Weighing in at 160 pages, and sporting sprawling layouts, YANA is more of a juggling journal than a magazine, which makes sense, since the plan is to make it an annual publication. Yana creators; Floren...