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.

Bringing together leading thinkers across technology, philosophy, and law, this collection examines how human agency, democracy, and freedom can flourish in the algorithmic age, with a practical digital tools guide and a glossary.

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.

A call to arms for artists to midwife a new cultural movement. This manifesto invites a shift from art as commodity to art as soul-work, uniting the artistic, political, and spiritual in service of a rebirth: a Second Renaissance.

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%.

Bigger isn’t always better. What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? The 38-page zine “AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice, and low-tech to re-imagine AI that is locally-rooted and more attuned to our natural world.

Pre-order artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache's second collection of poetry: 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. For international orders contact: goodnightsweetthing@gmail.com

The Emergency Was Curiosity is a book report gone wild; an exhibition and event series; a pandemic diary; an ongoing response to Jenny Odell’s book How to Do Nothing. The project invites you to cultivate your attention, to explore your own weird, category-resistant projects, and to treat your curiosity as a matter of urgency—an emergency, even.

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.

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.

The future needs wildly curious people. This is the call of The Quest Life: A Manifesto - an illustrated zine with 12 principles for staying creatively alive.

Download the zine for transit dates and interpretations on the energy of the eclipse cycles (Pisces-Virgo and Aquarius-Leo) to plan and observe the year ahead.

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

Save your clothes and learn how to bring them back to life with this instructional zine and mending kit.

Cover: Scott McElwee (Remake). Features: Artegios Distribución, Fortuyn: On-Hollands, Melania, Meta’s ad restrictions, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, no-fly year. Festivals: IFFR 2026, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2026. Columns: What‘s in My Bag (Katy Scoggin), What‘s on My Desk (Daniel Garber), Legal FAQ: Production Insurance, Screen Time.

Creasidence is a global accelerator in the creative industries, based in Tokyo, Japan. While supporting creators through educational workshops focused on the release of creative projects, we’re building a global community of creatives from over 25 countries. This collaborative comic Manifesto represents our shared vision for the creative future.

"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.

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

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

Get detailed Notion templates for all the exercises in the Artist's Way book. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Unlock your higher creativity with the self-guided 12 week program in the Artists Way written by Julia Cameron. Join artists like Doechii, Alicia Keys, Bella Hadid, and more in the creative transformation guided by these exercises.

"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

A book about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new world emerging around us. This is The DIGTAL Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

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.

Channel Surfing is a web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. CS002 will reflect on all things FRICTION: technological (in)efficiency, neo-Luddism, cognitive offloading, convenience culture, and more...

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

because sometimes you need a shitty pep talk from a stranger

Quiet Media is a print-first publication founded on the simple belief that our attention is our most valuable resource, and it should be treated with care. Through the perspective of 15 contributors, the inaugural issue explores what changes when we stop optimizing for speed and volume, and start designing for depth and meaning instead.

We’ve been told patriarchy is inevitable. It’s not. In redefining power, this book imagines the next world and invites you to help build it. Pre-order, release date TBD

A set of ten postcards featuring reproductions of paintings from Cristine Brache’s Bunny series.

QUANTUM FLUKE presents questions, not answers. A choose-your-own-adventure poetry zine, this downloadable is meant to be experienced in an order unique to each reader. Poems conclude with a question that will lead you down one of many sequences.

Notas sobre cómo internet se volvió corporativa. El periodista y escritor José Heinz recorre la historia de la cultura web para mostrar cómo pasamos del espíritu pionero y experimental a la internet homogeneizada y corporativa que habitamos hoy.

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 girl's bedroom story for the vanishing second internet, this .pdf is a collectible scrap taken from an ongoing confessional prose-poetry project. it is for the girl and her shadow. it should be read alone at 4am, or opened and discarded like an inexpensive gift.

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.

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.

ENTER THE SIMULACRUM 🧬 YOU ARE INVITED. JUNE 20TH. 10PM. SECRET WAREHOUSE LOCATION IN BROOKLYN.

This is a book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet (second printing)

ON SKIBIDI is the first in-depth critical examination of Skibidi Toilet. Based off a 3M+ view TikTok series analyzing the YouTube Shorts, this pamphlet seeks to ground Skibidi within its historical moment and use it to illuminate the uncanny configurations of self and screen that define digitality today.

A typeface that contrasts with its name: mild, but playful. A bold, imperfect, and empowering typeface.

Seven writers explore a world after nation-states.

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.

How can ancient wisdom shape the future of AI? In the zine Pasts, Presents, Futures: A Zine About Ancestral AI, we take a step back to reflect and reimagine. What if we used lessons from the past seven generations to create AI that helps us build a world worthy of the next seven?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A zine documenting conversations about resistance from activists outside of technology to translate into modes of resistance against genAI models.