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Joined Metalabel 10/18/2025
francoalvarez
Franco Alvarez
Summer 2024

Summer 2024

by Franco Alvarez

Collector #20

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.

tci
The Creative Independent
On dealing with creative anxiety (digital)

Collector #152

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

chorist
Chorist
Power Chords

Power Chords

by Chadwick Wood

Collector #25

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.

standardform
Standard Form Press
Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

Collector #39

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.

unlabeledmgzn
UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 4

UNLABELED Issue 4

by Jada Milazzo

Collector #7

UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.

squad
Metalabel squad
After the Creator Economy

After the Creator Economy

by IY, Severin Matusek, and 3 more

Collector #359

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.

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
Bentoism

Bentoism

by Yancey Strickler, and Laurel Schwulst

Collector #88

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.

nycgarbage
New York City Garbage
New York City Garbage Season 2 (More Coming Soon)

Collector #362

Join for updates on all future Garbage releases.

baukunst
Baukunst
Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001

Collector #134

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.

shantellmartin
Shantell Martin
Shantell Sans

Shantell Sans

by Shantell Martin

Collector #155

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.

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Collector #137

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.

isnot
IS NOT MUSIC
IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

by IS NOT MUSIC., Alec Hanley Bemis, and 3 more

Collector #65

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).

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
Meet the Ideaspace

Meet the Ideaspace

by Yancey Strickler

Collector #69

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.

dawnland
Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik
Restoring Dawnland #1: Wicuhkemine (Water Back)

Restoring Dawnland #1: Wicuhkemine (Water Back)

by Joel Mason, Kim Reeder, and 2 more

Collector #22

“Only when we have eaten the last fish will we realize we can't eat money” Sakom (Chief) Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik

now
NOW
YogatobeKidding

Collector #17

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.

squad
Metalabel squad
A New Creative Era

A New Creative Era

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 2 more

Collector #103

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.

vsmws
VSMWS
major L

major L

by glbkst

Collector #5

one should admit bad ideas

tci
The Creative Independent
On finding your voice

On finding your voice

by Brandon Stosuy

Collector #146

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.

baukunst
Baukunst
Notes from the Baukunst Creative Technologist Conference - Spring 2022

Collector #22

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.

baukunst
Baukunst
Contours of CAD + AI - Baukunst Study Group 002

Collector #25

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

unlabeledmgzn
UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 1

UNLABELED Issue 1

by Jada Milazzo

Collector #16

Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.

pierceday
Pierce Day
A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Collector #147

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.

dawnland
Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik
Special Release: Message to the King of England from Chief Hugh Akagi

Collector #8

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.

answers
ANSWERS, LLC
Pre-release info for a Policy of Action

Collector #10

Introductory remarks about a series of eight, 10-page essays I will release in 2025. Includes, preface/introduction/release timetable/summaries of each essay.

riotlaboratories
Riot Laboratories
Turn Off The Air Con - The Red Edition

Collector #6

A portrait of the Singapore punk scene. In collaboration with Widad Ismail (IG: widadism) and Knuckles & Notch (IG@ knucklesandnotch).

adhdjesse
Jesse J. Anderson
Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

Collector #16

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.

hardart
Hard Art
Introducing Hard Art

Introducing Hard Art

by Charlie Waterhouse, Daze Aghaji, and 8 more

Collector #424

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.

unlabeledmgzn
UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 3

UNLABELED Issue 3

by Jada Milazzo

Collector #8

UNLABELED issue 3 is all about escaping reality with the soft aesthetic. Explore how dress and playfulness have impacted artists in all industries!

now
NOW
Rules for Rockstars. (Inner Space Collection)

Collector #19

10 cheeky, irreverent rules for authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

newweirdaustralia
New Weird Australia
An Index Of The Modern Era 2009-2024

Collector #17

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.

ahumanatlas
A Human Atlas
Alta – A Human Atlas of a City of Angels

Alta – A Human Atlas of a City of Angels

by Marcus Lyon, Sam Mustow, and 1 more

Collector #32

Alta is a research-based exploration of social change in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century.

now
NOW
Get High on Your Own Supply!  A Notion Activity Workbook for Mindfulness Meditators

Collector #26

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)

francoalvarez
Franco Alvarez
The Mother Road

The Mother Road

by Franco Alvarez

Collector #21

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

dig
D.I.G.
B.O.O.G.E.R. Manifesto & Principles

Collector #18

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.

furyu
Limbic Roads
Z - Official Book

Z - Official Book

by Marco Furyu

Collector #11

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.

unlabeledmgzn
UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 5

UNLABELED Issue 5

by Jada Milazzo

Collector #13

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 🌀

nolvi-news
Nolvi News
No Protection, Whatever

Collector #5

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nolvi-news
Nolvi News
The Artists' Books of Fred Escher

Collector #20

Fred Escher made five artists’ books across two eras: austere B&W works in the 1970s and surreal, color-saturated books in the 2010s. Both are emotionally rich, often humorous, and centered on the doubled self. His books—quiet, strange, and complete—are widely available and the strongest expression of his vision.

gmm
Glass Mirror: a speculative research journal
Glass Mirror 001: What If?

Collector #92

"What If?" is a working journal: a reader-reviewed, iterative publication written to evolve alongside conversation. Each chapter is curated around a "what if" prompt—what if WFH took place in Vision Pros? Curators of the working edition (this release) can vote on journal submissions, curate chapter content, and read with the Glass Mirror community.

mrfox
Jeff Wood
ARCHIO

ARCHIO

by Jeff Wood

Collector #16

A science-fiction liturgy and pilgrimage to the Agion Oros—Mt. Athos, Greece. Video, text and field recordings by Jeff Wood.

new30lifestyle
New30
Falling Snow

Falling Snow

by Jourden Fenner

Collector #48

A girl travels to Copenhagen to retrieve mysterious black market death pills.

rebeccaclark
Rebecca Clark
Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene

Collector #254

BOOK of HOURS is a free 236-page PDF intended to be viewed in 2-page format on a handheld digital device. Taking the idea of the medieval prayer book into the virtual age, it provides light but also underscores our vast separation from the natural and spiritual worlds.

logos
Logos Parallel Societies
Logos "Open Source Everything" Zine

Collector #2

Logos organises around a common purpose: protecting individual freedom and enabling collective prosperity. Our culture is merit-based and participatory, welcoming of contributions of all kinds — code, ideas, design, writing. The "Open Source Everything" zine is the first collective print collaboration in the Logos Network.

now
NOW
10 Very Short Lessons (and a few simple rules) for Creating a Tiny Course in a Long Weekend

Collector #11

Release notes. 10 very short lessons to create a tiny product in a long weekend in printable PDF format 1 audio with steps (and a private audio feed for AMA and/or questions) 1 visualization in high resolution PNG format Lots of good vibes & creative mojo

becomingpress
Becoming
Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism & the Apocalypse (2025)

Collector #40

“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution." — Slavoj Žižek

sporesight
Sporesight
A meditation: be more like a mushroom

A meditation: be more like a mushroom

by Jess Jorgensen, and Thays Prado

Collector #2

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?

athousandforests
A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Collector #766

"Legal Structures for Creative Practices" is an illustrated zine designed for creative entrepreneurs that unpacks the pros, cons, and nuances of various legal structures to help choose the one that will best suit their unique practice. View the digital zine at: AThousandForests.com

becomingpress
Becoming
Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

Collector #170

Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

metalabel-scry
SCRY
CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA

by Berto Herrera, Oswaldo Rodriguez, and 1 more

Collector #52

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.

darkforest
The Dark Forest Collective
A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

by Mindy Seu, Esra Soraya Padgett, and 27 more

Collector #796

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.