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.

Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Select All Images That Make Your Bones Shrivel is the third zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created through public experiments and participatory workshops, it gathers CAPTCHAs that refuse recognition and stretch a small security interface into a collective exercise in critical play.

Greatest Docs of the 21st Century: Top 25, Singular Picks

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.

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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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.

What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past.

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

The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and collectible as a new media archive.

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.

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.

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.

Digital bundle giving you DIY status to print your own reproduction of the Poly Styrene poster advertising the release of "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" from 1977; print your own Oh Bondage Up Yours! Zine and download and listen to the unheard Poly Styrene demos from 1976

RURAL is a site-specific publication series documenting conversations and experiences with people living in rural communities. It explores lived experience framed by these questions: How does where we live shape our reality and impact how we relate to ourselves, our communities, the environment, our politics, and the ways we are creative?

Digital Downlaod of Up Yours! Collective's inaugural zine ISSUE 1: Oh Bondage Up Yours!

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.

"Empress of Night" is a zine by Marcel Dzama created for his 2025 solo exhibition at David Zwirner Los Angeles. This limited-edition publication features details from new and recent works in the show and includes references to Francisco Goya, Marcel Duchamp, surrealist poet Federico García Lorca, the rise of authoritarianism today and more.

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.

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

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

Seven writers explore a world after nation-states.

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

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.

A bag charm and bracelet inspired by medieval weaponry, fully functional as a medieval weapon.

The LAN Party Summer School is a webinar series that invites artists and practitioners to share their work about video game art. The programme runs each Friday at 6pm CET / 12pm ET from the 10th - 31st July 2026. Webinars led by: ALICE BUCKNELL ☆ SIDE QUEST ☆ CHIA AMISOLA ☆ JANNE SCHIMMEL

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. Receive access to early drafts by pre-ordering. Final work fruiting late summer 2026 🌸

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)

Notes on occupying the space between worlds

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

Alfred Muszynski (1998) is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. This is the artist's first publication. The volume features multimedia paintings created between 2022 - 2025. 68 pages, 8.5×11 in

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.

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

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.

Tiny books. Big ideas. The future is tiny (and we're betting it all on small). Private podcast & invite to upcoming July workshop for authors, artists and entrepreneurs. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us.

46 cards, 46 questions built around music and memory. Designed for Alone Together, where strangers used them to talk to each other properly. A prompt about a song is never really about the song — it's about what was happening when you heard it. Now yours to use anywhere. At dinner, on a drive, with someone you've never really talked to.

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.

The world's first VR rap music album in history. Set in the Southside of Chicago. Viewable on your phone, tablet, or computer. Updated version of A Ü T O/M Ö T O R from vyle, created in NYC New Museum, as part of their NEW INC artist incubator, with new tracks, updated 3D environments, added interactivity, and more.

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.

"String Life" is the debut single from Danish songwriter and producer Albert Hertz

A broken memory of voice, a light without warmth. Ложное Солнце [Remix] moves from open drift into a tightening, airless space. Fragments of language flicker and dissolve. No resolution — only a structure that continues to hold.