"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

Imagine we were more like fungi? If we are to solve some of humanity’s most radical challenges, we need radical new ways of thinking. Fungi as your Futurist is a first-of-its kind playbook for imagining regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. It invites you to think like fungi.

Kisesszék és hírnapló ahhoz, hogy jobban tájékozódjunk és boldoguljunk a digitális technológia által átalakított világhoz. Milyen hatással van az internet, a közösségi média és az AI ránk és a társadalomra? Ebben a füzetben kapaszkodókat találsz a kérdés megválaszolásához egy analóg-digitális határgenerációhoz tartozó írótól.

"A Few Essays on Taste" is a collection of essays on fashion, trends, and culture written by Ruby Justice Thelot in 2024.

a tiny but mighty guide for folks who would love to succeed at Substack, because we ain't going back to retail.

Mindfulness, magic, (Metta) and mojo. A tiny book about big love - a simple practice to fall back in love with the world (and your life) in difficult times.

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)

Sending loving kindness to all beings, in all directions, everywhere. May all beings be happy. May all beings feel loved. May all beings awaken. May all beings live with presence and peace. May all suffering come to an end. May all beings feel the kindness of strangers. May all beings feel loved and seen. May all beings understand wh

A crash course to fall back in love with the world and your life.

What does it feel like when a machine touches you back? For Berlin New Media Week, we present a hands-on workshop with Jason J. Snell exploring EEG audiovisual neurofeedback, followed by a roundtable discussion with live EEG performances and soundbaths. One day, two movements, one shared frequency. Hosted in collaboration with The Node Institute.

A blend of IRL ritual and AI prompt, this spell is designed to transform your fears into fresh fuel for your creativity.

As we accelerate into the future, it's vital that you learn how to protect your energy. This is a field manual that will help you do so. Available to early readers and design partners for the paperback and hardcover editions.

The seventh issue of Fishnet Magazine explores the concept of fantasy versus realism. This zine is made up of various artists' works, varying across all different mediums. Preorder shipping starts in late August.

"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

Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP

Do Not Research is a “detestable band of washed up millennial seapunks” and “zoomers obsessed with Mark Fisher”. It is also a highly active online community that publishes writing, visual art, internet culture research and more.

The definitive Other Internet anthology collects our essays and reports in print for the first time, traces crypto-cultural history in 6 new pieces, and surfaces new material from the OI archives. Ships September 2025. Pre-order now.

"All That Surrounds Us" is a collection of creative writings from fifteen members of NEW INC’s Y12 Social Architecture cohort.

Our first collection of issues all written, composed, and compiled in 2025. Contains poems, essays, and art on a range of topics from black liberation, women's liberation, Palestine, history, creativity, organizing, theory, and more! Contents: 5 print issues PDF Downloads

Our third anthology book. DNR began as a private Discord server gathered to discuss memetic tactics and emergent political trends.

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.

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.

P.P.P.P.P.P. (People! Practice Participating in Participatory Projects, Please.) by Naoco Wowsugi, 2023 “Why are artists always seen as the leaders or organizers? Why can’t you be an artist by being a participant?” —Naoco Wowsugi

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

Issue #002 documents our latest LAST HUMAN prototype—a creepy descent into the AI slop of the dead internet, Participants were dropped into a glitching system with one urgent task: hunt down their doppelgänger. It’s a game of human CAPTCHA—prove your humanity before the algorithm erases it.

An exploration of individuality after the internet The Post-Individual First Edition includes "The Post Individual" essay, an audio recording and video introduction by the author, and research notes behind the piece

"Who Controls the Narrative?" is a guide for assessing bias in media about sex workers. It was written and created by Delilah Saul, veteran sex worker and founder of Outlaw Media. 100% of your payment for this e-book supports my upcoming documentary about media bias against sex workers!

Mean Hand is a typeface made from the average of thousands of individual samples in the EMNIST dataset: 814,255 handwritten characters gathered by the US government in the early 1990s to automate Census form processing. The font covers the full alphabet and digits across nine weights.

The fourth issue of the Institute of Machine Unlearning's zine series documenting Three Sad Tigers Eat Cereal at the Server Farm (2026), the Institute's first exhibition featuring participatory artworks exploring AI, datasets, recognition, and collective play.

A dispatch from the creative frontier by the Blackbird Foundation. Observations and artefacts from the creative projects we funded in 2025 including artworks, essays, photography and more.

A zine about life cycles, compost, and letting go.

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.

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.

What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

I have demonstrated that the Sunspots are neither Stars nor permanent materials, and that they are not located at a distance from the Sun but are produced and dissolved upon it in a manner not unlike that of clouds and vapors on the Earth -Galileo Galilei

@Metalabel. A thank you letter, to all the people who have helped me to be here <3.

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.

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

A song inspired by Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Work #20, with a reel of video synthesizer visuals.

This is a free edition that focuses on how to navigate your 'Network Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration'. It is a curated guide highlighting key themes, insights, and actionable ideas from a selection of the projects to help you explore the directory more deeply. This drop follows the inaugural release from the Network Archives label.

An author, his mother (deceased), his brother (schizophrenic), and the annotation (The Annotator) converse about a failed 3 volume book of poetry, entitled “The Quiet Transgression of Being,” and devoted to the question of original sin, understood psychanalytically as the intuition of sin or crime at being alive and conscious.

A monodrama in which the individual's Genius, his inner censor (The Censor), and his (universal, nuclear) Psychopath discuss their inter-relations and the management of human subjectivity, identity, meaning, and experience.

Is our digital identity shaped by the constant stream of online trends and memes? APEX, a cutting-edge zine dives into the intersection of AI, identity, and digital culture- journeying through past, present, and future to answer this. From "Modern Accelerationism" to "Cybernatural Synergy," APEX offers fresh perspectives on evolving digital selves.

Logos zine "Nation States are Obsolete", which covers excerpts from the "Farewell to Westphalia" book by Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow, including historical context of the Westphalian treaty.

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.

What comes after the 400-year-old nation-state system? Has this revolution already started from the depths of the internet? Farewell to Westphalia explores what is likely to succeed nation states, from cyberstates to internet movements, backed by the authors’ decades of experience.

Source Material Studio presents Stillness is a Move, the first publication in a new series exploring visual culture and creative practice. This edition introduces Stillness Mode, a developing framework that reflects on how images behave within contemporary conditions shaped by speed and constant motion.