Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.
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The fourth edition of Fishnet Magazine explores the topic of Surrealism. This zine is made up of various artists' works, varying across all different mediums. Preorder shipping starts December 1st.
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Welcome to the Sporesight meditation. You are invited to connect with the world of fungi and experiment with how it feels to be a little bit more like a mushroom. Don’t worry, this is an exercise with no substance involved other than your own imagination. Shall we begin?
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A girl travels to Copenhagen to retrieve mysterious black market death pills.
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Hard Imagination invites Venture Capitalists to see a world beyond an extractive mindset, to create pathways for capital allocation that are not self-terminating Limited run of 23 bound copies or download the PDF for free
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How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. More info on the lecture performance tour in Fall 2025 below! SHIPPING IN OCTOBER.
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Introducing Myrrh wa Saphira, with a pulsating remix by Catharæ. Myrrh wa Saphira is a Marseille-based hybrid ambient project by Saphira and Sarah Mỹ, unfolding through immersive poetic performances, flowing like a hypnotic journey to the boundaries of the subconscious. This micro-edition is an extension of "iiwii", their recently released EP.
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In our digital age, every CAPTCHA solved reduces our existence to data points. Every click fuels a shadow economy, stripping away genuine connection and trapping us in endless metrics. We must reclaim authentic human experience.
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Alta is a research-based exploration of social change in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century.
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A zine published by The Creative Independent, compiling quotes, excerpts, and recommendations from working artists, all gathered from our archive. Topics covered include always looking for better ways to express yourself, finding your path, creating work in your own voice, following your curiosity, and more.
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Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective.
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An evening of channel-flipping, alien television, and gaming against the grain with Blippo+ co-creators YACHT at Metalabel HQ in New York.
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The Quester’s Guide (Magic issue) is an interactive journey of ideas, activities and stories designed to make you see the world differently and turn the world into a creative playground. Explore through our book, a virtual platform of collective research, and a deck of prompt cards. For people fuelled by curiosity.
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The first ever full length project by Franco Alvarez; a magazine chronicling the summer of 2024. A summer characterized by heavy growth and development, the story of a caterpillar becoming the butterfly.
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A 52-page zine exploring how artists can channel their creative anxiety. Features contributions and insights from Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Broder, Anelise Chen, Jlin, Mike Rugnetta, Henry Rollins, and Nikki Sixx
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Two new Chorist tracks; physical zine + digital audio. The zine is printed on the artist's father's computer science homework papers from the early 80's. Limited edition. Free.
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Limited first printing (100) of the 1944 CIA-predecessor manual on everyday resistance. Pocket-sized (4.25"x7") with concealment dust jacket titled Apiculture: Managing Worker Bees & Drones. Learn to "work slowly," "make speeches," and "misunderstand orders" in this historical guide to administrative disruption. Also available as a free PDF.
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UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.
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Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.
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A wider view of our self-interest. Now Me, Future Me. Now Us, Future Us. A model for a deeper form of living. BEyond Near Term Orientation: Bentoism.
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Join for updates on all future Garbage releases.
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In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.
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Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.
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A trilogy of essays published from 2019 through 2021 that explores why I and others feel less comfortable showing our true selves online. Reissued here with the original piece, two follow-up essays, and a podcast conversation with The Stoa exploring the concept.
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Is Not Music is a multi-platform project that creates, contextualizes, explores and archives work from artists. We work in physical & digital formats while making sure to privilege the former (IRL experience) over the latter (AI slop, social media & other algorithmic-driven popularity contests).
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Since 2017, the Ideaspace has been my outlet for exploring creative forms and sharing ideas. This release shares audio of four of my favorite interviews — with artist Hank Willis Thomas, economist Marianna Mazucato, and authors John Higgs and Eric Wargo — in a free .zip download.
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“Only when we have eaten the last fish will we realize we can't eat money” Sakom (Chief) Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik
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Limited edition collection of art, ideas and screens from "Yogatobekidding! The tiny yoga book of big questions, unconventional lessons, and mini meditations for beginners, believers and the curious but not yet convinced." Note - Availability is limited i've got a big ass family who will do doubt be scooping up this bargain. You're welcome.
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In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era. This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download.
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On May 4th and 5th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at The Interval at The Long Now— a prominent foundation for long-term thinking— to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.
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In our second Study Group at Baukunst, Contours of CAD and AI, we set out to explore how emerging AI and machine learning techniques have the potential to revolutionize computer aided design in industrial design, engineering, construction, virtual environments, and beyond. We worked in collaboration to form a picture of what the future of engineeri
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Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.
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A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.
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Chief Hugh Akagi delivers an insightful message to the King of England, asking him to remind Canada that the Peskotomuhkati made their treaties with the King before Canada existed. The Peskotomuhkati people remain unrecognized as a First Nation in Canada. This video and press release are free, collectible items designed to build good relations.
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Introductory remarks about a series of eight, 10-page essays I will release in 2025. Includes, preface/introduction/release timetable/summaries of each essay.
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A portrait of the Singapore punk scene. In collaboration with Widad Ismail (IG: widadism) and Knuckles & Notch (IG@ knucklesandnotch).
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Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD is your starter guide to understanding your ADHD brain and learning a smarter way to find motivation.
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We are a cultural collective of artists, activists, and scientists standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. We’re starting a new creative movement. Join us.
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UNLABELED issue 3 is all about escaping reality with the soft aesthetic. Explore how dress and playfulness have impacted artists in all industries!
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10 cheeky, irreverent rules for authors, artists and entrepreneurs.
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To celebrate fifteen years of operations, label friends and family select their favourites from the New Weird Australia catalogue. The 29-track selections run the gamut from the first compilation released in 2009 to the most recent collection from the 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only.
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Notion activity workbook. Track the practice of loving kindness meditation - cultivate more compassion, self love, purpose, presence and peace.....through the magic of "metta" meditation - and Notion! Beta access to our new mindfulness app (coming Dec 2025 - get notified when it's available in beta)
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A short zine and first ever created print media by Franco Alvarez. Includes Oklahoma City OK, Amarillo TX, Albuquerque NM, Flagstaff AZ, Laughlin NV, and Los Angeles CA. Shot on Kodak 200 Gold
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The first available public declaration and guiding principles of the Deterministic Intranasal Guild, as written and executed by the Board Of Olfactory Grazing Engagement Review.
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The Official Book for the short film Z (2024), directed by Marco Furyu, is here. The film structures itself around the shamanic cinema and will take you through a poetic voyage from our world into the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, even to the stars, and then back to humanity again. Digital. Portuguese version. 10 pages. Free edition.
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Inspire by the influence of biomimicry in art - the practice of looking to nature’s forms and systems for creative solutions. Focusing on how we as creatives maintain our humanity and what makes us human in a world of ever-changing technology and progress 🌀
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