Artist Joshua Citarella and writer Yancey Strickler spoke weekly about their creative practices for the "New Creative Era" podcast. This book edits those discussions into a collection offering a new perspective on the creative life. Available July 1.

Unwritten is a collection of stories and essays for those rewriting the rules of work and life, proving there are infinite ways to matter.

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.

"Workshop of Workshops" by P. Krishnamurthy, explores various organizational structures—studio, gallery, school, therapy, and temple—analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in fostering creativity, collaboration, and individual development. PK proposes a "new workshop" model that to merge the best aspects of these formats.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Artist Series is an investigation into the minds of artists and musicians playing with artificial intelligence and new musical instruments.

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

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

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.

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

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

A visual investigation of polarization in the USA In collaboration with Angelo Semeraro (IG @semeraro.studio)

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.

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 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

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.

Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.

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.

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

Written by Ester Freider ISBN: 979-8-9923515-1-4 Publisher: Bimbo Rhetoric Publishing House Publication Date: May 5, 2025 Pages: 63 pages Language: English

A century-old myth. Aliens, war and magic. What do they reveal about our modern era of technology and media? The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place is a 24-page tabloid newspaper created by Nick Susi with visual objects by Domingo Beta. Debuted at FWB FEST25, with an original score by VÉRITÉ.

Whoa, Vol. 1 – Conversations To Make You Feel Human A limited edition print publication of 100 copies exclusively sold at Metalabel (for American collectors), and an unlimited digital edition worldwide. Also included: private podcast and YouTube feeds of each unedited conversation. By Sublime and Printernet.

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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.

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 for Spring 2026

DJ Meisner (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in San Francisco, California. This volume features works created between 2020 - 2024. 48 pages, 8 x 10”.

LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering that leads us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises. Pre-orders are open for the first 100 editions & include a free digital copy of the book. Orders ship by October 1, 2025.

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.

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.

Organic Cotton Screen Printed Black T-Shirt

A 100-day online drawing community program. Participants receive a Drawing Club Kit by mail and share their daily drawings in a private Discord channel. The drawings will be archived on its online archive birdcall.online/drawingclub.

A series exploring the poetic tension between idealism and surrender in bodies moving to unseen celestial, socio-political, and technological forces. ••• Proceeds from this release will support research and development of an immersive prototype of the same name, featuring spatial sound, visuals, performance, and audience interactivity.

"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

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

The digital zine that almost wasn’t. A one-off publication that, in many ways, tells its own story—the energy, creative passion, and very real challenges that almost kept it from happening. WOR(L)DS ZINE

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

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.

A beautifully designed digital, seasonal journal for sensitive souls, busy minds, and anyone craving a deeper connection to life's natural rhythms. Slow down and find presence with guided reflection, embodied rituals, and creative practices. Give yourself permission to gently align with the ebb and flow of energy while nurturing your soul.

"BOOSTED" is a collaborative album and malevolent viral entity conjured through the combined effort of Brooklyn-based musicians MURDERPACT and TRNGS, digital artist Mark Fingerhut, and graphic designer Brian Mark. Out on 29 Speedway, the record is available in the form of a possessed .exe file, spawning a tightly orchestrated piece of malware.

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.

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! Includes a tiny book of big love (on Amazon, via a link in the Notion template - 100% free) Beta access to our new app (coming June 19)

This 36-page risograph-printed pamphlet is a radical & practical guide to reclaiming your life from digital technology.

A semi-autobiographical Game Boy game about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.