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

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.

This PDF is my raw longhand introduction to my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text important not just for its internal creative effect on major medieval Jewish mystics like Abraham Abulafia, but also for its seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing with the looming Golem of AI in view.

My work-in-progress English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. Important not just for having a creative effect on major historical figures, but also for a seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing into the looming Golem of AI today.

An exploration of individuality after the internet. The Post-Individual includes: — The Post Individual essay — An audio recording by the author — A video introduction — Research notes, early drafts, and slides

One way our world could go from here.

Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.

Is Not Music. Issue 02 highlights artists whose legacies far outstrip conventional measures of success. In a time when the future feels stalled — these artists serve as our north stars. They’re mile markers we glimpse as we drive forward. Ships Worldwide.

"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.

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

CMYK is an asemic poetry book published by Swedish press Timglaset. It was their blackest book ever and simultaneously one of their most colorful. Now out of print, it was originally published in an edition of 99 copies, and was a winner in The Society of Typographic Arts 45th STA100 in 2024

Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? This issue of the Slow AI Series “[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI” summons 54 pages of magic, divination, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing to disenchant then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.

In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.

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.

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.

Issue 2 is about punk culture and the way the initial idea of what it means to be "punk" has changed and developed over the years. The PUNK issue features artists, writers, photographers, and designers who see themselves as punk, in some fashion. The magazine dives deeper into how punk means rebellion in various ways; such as fashion, music choices

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

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.

a microdose of mindfulness for cultivating a bit more calm, presence and peace in difficult moments.

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Poems in the twenty-seventh year

Bad Kingdom is a poetic visual novel that follows three characters: Robin in Taipei, Swan in Tokyo, and a mysterious Crow, as they reflect on the loss of their beloved online multiplayer game Fly Like a Bird. The piece is presented both as an interactive Ren’Py visual story and as a comic in PDF format.

Economic precarity is up. Market demands are too. People are drowning in digital overload. Political threats loom. The second Anonymous Creative Futures survey shares what 300+ anon artists and creators feel about this moment, their words 100%.

Members of the Baukunst collective, startup founders, and guest experts, including leaders from manufacturing giants like NVIDIA, Flex, Tesla, Rivian, and Apple, share a deep dive on one of this decade's most important issues: how AI is shifting manufacturing, employment, and the shape of human work.

The first artist release under The Network Archives Label, "Algae Ecosystem," Vol. 1, highlights two creators & two ways of world-building through Vibe Coding. It's a way to document the tools, habits, and creative logic behind the work. This is what modern world-building looks like.

A library-crawling adventure RPG set in the mythical Abbey of Theleme, EX LIBRIS is a multimedia amalgamation drawing from Umberto Eco, Francois Rabelais, Clark Ashton Smith, and Marguerite Porete

"A lightly researched field guide for thinking about and/or making creative things" These are observations from real working life, a collective twenty years of our work as professionals in a wide range of fields — architecture, advertising, design, innovation strategy, journalism, and software engineering.

a rumination on why small things need to make a big comeback

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

Some theories and practical approaches that might help you think about how you think about ideas.

New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes.

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?

Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.

At the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by a GPT modelled on Jazani's writings, and edited by Parham Ghalamdar.

Free PDF of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity.

a tiny but mighty curated collection of free kid friendly fonts ideal for authors & artists and entrepreneurs. (especially those of us who are writing to inspire kids and teens) An unconventional collection of free Google fonts....and the juicy details they won't tell you about why they rock.

Tiny Books. Big Business. The beginners guide to writing tiny books, creating tiny products and building your brand, business and bank account with tiny but mighty products in 2026 that will change your life and maybe even change the world. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us!

First Futures is a free, 4-hour virtual workshop that makes futures design accessible to everyone. Learn practical tools to spot change, map consequences, design speculative products, and create artefacts that challenge the status quo.

From desire paths to the development of the internet, from party etiquettes to redefining intelligences, from Caribbean theory to advanced forms of technoculture. Take a meandering walk with this essay, as it introduces a tool that meanders through knowledge just the same.

Bloom > Doom. Our 2026 mission.

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.

On October 25th and 26th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at Warehouse XI, just outside of Boston in Somerville, MA, to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.

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.

Baukunst explores how emerging AI 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 engineering design software might look like and how it might in turn shape the world around us.

GEOTYPE is a font with angular shapes, sharp contrasts, and a bold and experimental style. A playful display typeface that's eye catching on every surface. It's the very first font created by Seah Studio, in partnership with the Letterform Archive.

Learn about the moon’s phases, the zodiac and astrological houses so you can understand how the transiting moon affects your personal natal chart.