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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 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.

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 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.

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.

Find order in a chaotic world with whatdoyousee.nyc, a participatory web-based archive composed of curiosity, code, and hundreds of photos of everyday New York City.

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.

TRANCHE 001 is a collection of 5 one-off podcast episodes from 5 different sets of galaxy-brain Socratic thinkers, journalists, filmmakers, and neo-oral communication geniuses. The topics range from tracing the history of the word Based from lil b to Pete Hegseth, to what it's like to get old.

Mini pocket zine covering a tactical guide on protecting your digital footprint at events.

In 2007 I met a musician on Myspace – a Brit living in Reykjavik. We fell in love. For 9 months, we swapped songs, art, letters, Skype calls & brief moments in real life, kissing in cars. In 2016 I traveled to Iceland to make a project about our relationship. This book is the result. Begin Forwarded Message tells our story from beginning to end.

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

neutra is a sans-serif typeface inspired by the aesthetics of retro-futurism, gen x soft club, and y2k. rooted in a geometric approach, its minimalist forms have a sleek, technical feel with a nod to space-age graphics.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

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

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.

"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

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

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.

FANDOM is a communal publication which features critical and experimental short-form responses to the theme of fandom from a variety of upcoming writers and artists.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

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.

This issue of the zine, travels to MAD Arts just north of Miami for a special look at Last Human Studio a collaborative workshop with high school students that blends vibe coding and digital literacy. Over the course of two and a half days, students move from having no prior experience with AI to staging a Dead Internet inspired pop-up exhibition.

Season 2 of New York City Garbage continues with the first-ever DOUBLE DROP — two limited editions of 25. Collected from the 56th annual NYC Pride March 🏳️‍🌈 and the legendary Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 🌭 in Coney Island, these cubes capture the spirit, spectacle, and joy of New York’s iconic summer traditions. See you at noon!

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.

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

Pandemonia: A Novel Plague Plague Novel | High Fantasy. Low Morale. Farts. | The Legend has Been Redacted. | Fantasy Novel. Weaponized Hallucination. | A Swamp to Sewer Hero's Journey. | Final Fantasy VI meets January VI. | Tinfoil Tolkien. | Discworld meets InfoWars.

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The first augmentations of Mishka When Oppikoppi still lived and breathed pre-cancer

Chief Hugh Akagi delivers an insightful message to the King of England, asking him to remind Canada that the Peskotomuhkati made their treaties with the King before Canada existed. The Peskotomuhkati people remain unrecognized as a First Nation in Canada. This video and press release are free, collectible items designed to build good relations.

SOMETHING SOON is a comic project about the premonition of big changes. But until something great actually happens, we can only watch life go by — between concrete buildings, near libraries and in the tunnels of the old subway. SCURRY was created as an exercise during Inktober 2024. The only condition was that there was no pre-conceived script and

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.

Chief Hugh Akagi shares some history with Canadian Prime Minister Carney and asks him to correct the current lack of recognition of the Peskotomuhkati people.

a tiny but mighty quirky collection of 30 DBT cards for therapists, coaches, teachers, social workers, mental health professionals and the curious but not yet convinced.

Just when I thought we were out, he's back in! And sequels tend to be worse... In 2017, starting on inauguration day, I documented the natural decay of a Trump-shaped orange over 100 days, mirroring the corruption and absurdity of power. Earlier 35 frames were available as a physical poster. Now a reduced size one as a free download. Tariff that!

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

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

Toda marca já tem material para uma zine, mas ele está espalhado pela internet, em posts que ninguém vê mais. Neste free canvas, reorganize o que sua marca já produziu em uma peça impressa que vai durar anos. Próxima etapa: trabalhar o conteúdo no papel! Vamos juntos em mentoria 1:1, oficina customizada ou na oficina ZINES PARA COMUNICAR COISAS 💫

A short film about the last second before an outcome is known: when lust is still a winnable game, and love never was one. Dice, which also means it says, invites viewers into the pause between the throw and the reveal. A Prelude for MRROR5

The Creasidence Webtoon — a collaborative project born from our 2-day online workshop. Artists are expanding the Extora character’s world and story arcs, which began in Creasidence Comics Zine #04, by experimenting with modern web storytelling techniques adapted for scrolling immersion. Dive into the Creative Cosmic Cat Travelling saga!

An 100% original song NO AI. Composed (music & lyrics) by Slap Call with companion video by White Noise. 🤡🚗 When politico circus becomes a derby demolition race to the bottom. The term “clown car” is used pejoratively to describe a large and unwieldy field of candidates perceived as lacking seriousness, qualifications, or cohesiveness.

It all started when "THE EARTHLINGS" occupied the green ball, full of diversity, gigantic land, unlimited opportunities. Then they started learning, unlearning, relearning their environment, creating a livable place. They evolved from apes to the Sapiens. But this evolution came at a cost of the blue-green ball of life - THE EARTH.

A quick-fire method for generating feedback on individual challenges in a small group adapted from Liberating Structures.

A Limited-run of encrypted 16GB USB Drives containing nearly 10 hours of original music & sonic memory in the form of Demos, Voice Memos and Rough Cuts. Featuring solo, as well as collaborative demo and live jam session recordings from 2023-2024. Predominantly recorded in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

When I caught a cold and was having trouble breathing, this image came to me. I designed it as a poster to give life to sad walls.

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