Who we are

A magazine about the people who keep the work running

Dream Teammate is a digital magazine for readers in Argentina and across Latin America who want to understand how a real team is actually put together. Not the org chart version. The version with the night shift, the missing paperwork, and the two people who stopped talking to each other for a week.

We report from workshops, kitchens, design studios, neighborhood clubs, small production companies, and cooperatives. Long interviews, project diaries, and columns written by people who hire and by people looking for their first job. Every issue also carries a fixed section where three professionals from the same trade walk through one concrete problem they had to solve.

A separate edition in neutral Spanish serves readers in the Dominican Republic, with shorter features and practical guides for building teams on tourism and food projects in the Caribbean.

Who we write for

Owners and managers of small teams who hire without a human resources department.
People preparing for a first job and unsure what a good workplace looks like.
Coordinators at clubs, cooperatives, and community projects working with volunteers.
Readers in the Caribbean following the neutral Spanish edition and its practical guides.

Documentary, not promotional

Reporters spend time on site, often across several visits, before a single line gets written.

Portraits with one color

Black-and-white photography, with a single accent color chosen by the person in the frame.

What we leave out

No material outside our editorial focus or unsuitable for a general audience. That line does not move.

Our Work

How an Issue Gets Made

Every edition moves through the same slow sequence: reporting on site, editing the neutral Spanish version for the Caribbean, choosing one selective color per portrait, and setting the pages on cream stock. Here is the order we follow, and roughly how long each stage takes.

Stage 01

Pitch and Assignment

Weeks 1 to 3

Editors read incoming pitches from workshops, kitchens, clubs, and cooperatives. We pick stories where the team can be visited more than once, because a single afternoon rarely shows how a group actually works.

Stage 02

Reporting on Site

Weeks 3 to 8

Reporters spend full shifts with the team, often across two or three visits. Notes cover the boring parts too: shift handovers, paperwork, the argument nobody wants to repeat on record.

Stage 03

Portraits in Black and White

Week 8

Each subject is photographed in black and white, then picks one selective color for the final print. The choice is theirs, not the art desk's, and it usually says more about the trade than any caption.

Stage 04

Two Editions, Two Rhythms

Weeks 9 to 11

The Argentina edition runs long interviews. The Dominican Republic edition is edited separately, with shorter features and practical team-building guides for tourism and food projects in the Caribbean.

Stage 05

Setting the Pages

Weeks 11 to 13

Newspaper serif type on cream paper, midnight blue ink, mustard accents, and wide margins. Layout is done by hand so a long quote can breathe instead of being cut to fit a template.

Stage 06

Fact Check and Release

Week 14

Every name, date, and quote goes back to the source for confirmation. We also decline pitches that fall outside our editorial focus or are unsuitable for a general audience, and that filter runs before anything else.

Our story

How this magazine got its shape

Dream Teammate started as a folder of notes from workshops, kitchens and small studios across Argentina. Nobody planned a magazine at first. We were just collecting the same question from different trades: what actually holds a team together once the enthusiasm wears off.

The answer rarely fit a headline, so we built a format that could hold the slow parts: long interviews, project diaries, and a fixed column where three people from one trade walk through the same problem.

2009 to 2014

Reporting on site, not by phone

Early issues came out of repeated visits. We sat through shifts, watched apprentices make mistakes, and only wrote once the routine made sense. That habit never changed.

2015 to 2018

Portraits in black and white

We stopped shooting color. Each subject now picks one accent tone for their portrait, and that single choice carries more about the person than a full palette ever did.

2019 to 2022

A separate Caribbean edition

Readers in the Dominican Republic asked for shorter pieces and practical guides for tourism and food projects. We edit that edition on its own schedule, with its own team.

2023 onward

Print decisions we keep

Cream paper, midnight blue ink, mustard accents, wide margins. The layout is slower than a screen, and that is the point. It forces the reader to sit with one story at a time.

What we leave out is also a decision. We keep the magazine focused on practical, responsible stories about teams and everyday work. Those limits shape who pitches to us and who stays.