Issue 03 · Fall 2026 — out 15 September, 12 PM✦ Where color, culture & community meet✦ A Toast to Color — 8 October, Sarasota Wine Co.✦ Fall, unbothered✦ Issue 03 · Fall 2026 — out 15 September, 12 PM✦ Where color, culture & community meet✦ A Toast to Color — 8 October, Sarasota Wine Co.✦ Fall, unbothered✦

A quarterly magazine · by Liss Design

Confluent

Seeing the world through color. Issue 03 is the one that argues fall gets brighter here — and then goes outside to prove it.

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Issue 03 drops in

Tuesday 15 September · 12 PM Eastern

Next edition · 15 Sept No. 03 Fall 2026

The Launch · Thursday 8 October 2026

A Toast
to Color

Issue 03 comes off the press and a new Liss artwork series comes off the wall — one evening at Sarasota Wine Co., 64 South Palm Avenue.

8 OctThursday
6–8 pmIn the evening
$25Plus tax & fees

Three pours chosen by the shop, appetizers through the evening, and the first look at a collection built out of travel — Mendoza, Italy, France, Greece. Everything on the wall is for sale that night, and so are the magazines.

It is a small room. Tickets are on the shop's site.

Buy tickets → sarasotawineco.com QR code linking to the ticket page. On a phone, tap it instead.
Outside Sarasota Wine Co. on Palm Avenue, the full storefront logo in the window, coupe raised.

Out Tuesday 15 September, 12 PM · Fall 2026

The Bright
Issue.

Somewhere north of here, fall is a closing. Sweaters, early dark, the pool cover going on. Issue 03 is the one that argues Sarasota does the opposite — and then spends twenty-eight pages outside proving it.

Two glimpses and a hint. The rest of the photography stays under wraps until noon on the fifteenth.

28Pages
FourFeatures
OneArgument about fall
15 SeptTuesday, 12 PM

The full issue lands at noon on 15 September. Subscribers and partners see it first — everything runs through lissdesign.com/issue3 until then.

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Fall, Unbothered

While everyone else is packing up their summer supplies, we're still in the pool past five.

The story

Color is
the beginning.

Confluent is a quarterly about how color moves through a place — the walls, the table, the water, the people. It is published by Liss Design and made in Sarasota, Florida.

Color

A color is never one color. It's a color plus the light that happens to be hitting it.

Culture

What a city puts on its walls, its tables and its glasses is a decision, not a default.

Connection

Color is the language. Connection is the point — the reason any of this gets made.

Community

Every issue is built with the rooms, shops and studios that make this city worth looking at.

A palette with a voice

Issue 03 —
the opposite of a fall palette.

Rust, ochre and oxblood exist because in most of the country the light is leaving. Ours does the opposite — deep green and Tyrian purple holding grapefruit, rose and mustard. This is the season, mixed.

Forest#25503D
Tyrian#700353
Magenta#B61968
Bubblegum#F576A5
Rose#F2C4DE
Tiffany#A0DED9
Mustard#FFD447
Orange#F98107

Collaborations

Made with
the room.

Every issue is built alongside the people in it. Issue 03 was made with three — you'll see how on 15 September.

Inside Sarasota Wine Co. — the full shelf wall, sparkling and small-producer whites floor to ceiling.
64 S Palm Avenue

Sarasota Wine Co.

Small producers, big impressions. Hosting the launch on 8 October.

The pool deck at The Sarasota Modern — an orange cooler and a bottle at the tiled edge under the travellers' palms.
Boulevard of the Arts

The Sarasota Modern

Three pools, underwater speakers, a cold plunge. We spent an October afternoon there.

The aromatherapy wall at Squeeze Sarasota — teal cabinets with reed diffusers behind glass.
3070 Fruitville Commons Blvd

Squeeze Massage

Sloane's studio on Fruitville Commons. An hour where nothing is negotiated and nothing is upsold — extras don't cost extra. Book →

A quiet corner of Sarasota Wine Co. — a leaning mirror, a cane chair and a bottle on a small round table, from the Issue 03 feature.

Partner with Confluent · 2027 placements open

Be in the
next one.

Confluent reaches a curated, color-led audience across print and digital — designers, hospitality, and the people who decide what a room in this city looks like. A handful of placements open each issue.

01 · $350 per issueFeatured Placement
  • Half to one page
  • 75–125 word feature
  • One to two images
  • Grouped placement
02 · $800 per issue · the anchorEditorial Feature
  • Two to four page feature
  • 200–400 word editorial
  • Three to five images
  • Designed layout
  • Primary placement
03 · $1,200 per issueSignature Partner
  • Four to six page feature
  • 400–700 word editorial
  • Five to eight images
  • Priority placement
  • Enhanced creative direction

Made, not placed.

Every partnership is produced like editorial. We write it, shoot it, and lay it out in the issue's own palette, so your page reads as part of the magazine rather than something dropped into it. You approve everything before it prints.

We don't set advertisements beside our stories. We build the story around you.

Placements for Issue 04 · Winter 2027

Start the conversation.

Tell us what you make and the feeling you hope people carry with them — then we'll talk about where your story might live in the next issue. Levels, inclusions and rates are all on the partnership site.

Partner with Confluent

The creative minds

Who makes it.

Sheena Gomez

Editor-in-Chief. Writes the issue, runs the book, decides what earns a page.

Alissa "Liss" Silvers

Creative Director. Muralist and artist. The palette starts with her, and so does the argument.

Roni Padua Photography

Photography, Issue 03. Every frame in this issue.

Contributors rotate each issue. If you make something in this city and it has a color, we'd like to hear from you.

Sitting at the pool's edge under a pale parasol, a bottle and an orange cooler alongside.

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