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.

We are a cultural collective of artists, activists, and scientists standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. We’re starting a new creative movement. Join us.

Is Not Music. Issue 02 highlights artists whose legacies far outstrip conventional measures of success. In a time when the future feels stalled — these artists serve as our north stars. They’re mile markers we glimpse as we drive forward. Ships Worldwide.

Artist and filmmaker Julian Castronovo's award winning film "Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued" is now available via this special edition postscript zine which includes a private online viewing link.**(Upon purchase temporary link to full film will be emailed directly.)

"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

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.

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.

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. More info on the lecture performance tour in Fall 2025 below! SHIPPING IN OCTOBER.

Boom and Dust depicts a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa, Texas. This roadway serves as the backbone of the extraction industry in the Permian Basin. We made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of the unrelenting scroll of mancamps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters collectively known as the "Petroplex."

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.

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 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.

Part of Metalabel SS2025 collection. DOOM→BLOOM Handprinted in Lisbon on heavyweight Gildan T-Shirt. Limited edition of 40.

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.

The Magic Warriors Zine is the vibrant result of a month-long mentorship program. Explore its heartfelt manga stories and character cards, all set in a mysteriously snow-locked village. The release also includes a printable sticker sheet, so you can carry a piece of this magical adventure into your daily life.

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.

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.

Hard Imagination invites Venture Capitalists to see a world beyond an extractive mindset, to create pathways for capital allocation that are not self-terminating Limited run of 23 bound copies or download the PDF for free

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.

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

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.

In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era. This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download.

A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)

A practical introduction to typography; from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment, for people who want to create type that reads beautifully and feels intentional.

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

"What If?" is a working journal: a reader-reviewed, iterative publication written to evolve alongside conversation. Each chapter is curated around a "what if" prompt—what if WFH took place in Vision Pros? Curators of the working edition (this release) can vote on journal submissions, curate chapter content, and read with the Glass Mirror community.

Inspire by the influence of biomimicry in art - the practice of looking to nature’s forms and systems for creative solutions. Focusing on how we as creatives maintain our humanity and what makes us human in a world of ever-changing technology and progress 🌀

UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.

UNLABELED issue 3 is all about escaping reality with the soft aesthetic. Explore how dress and playfulness have impacted artists in all industries!

Issue 2 is about punk culture and the way the initial idea of what it means to be "punk" has changed and developed over the years. The PUNK issue features artists, writers, photographers, and designers who see themselves as punk, in some fashion. The magazine dives deeper into how punk means rebellion in various ways; such as fashion, music choices

AFTER FRANÇOIS MÉLIÈS is an eight-track collection of instrumental music by Tigre Benvie inspired by the elusive François Méliès (1925-1984) and his frustrating, yet compelling, oeuvre. In keeping with Méliès’ 1963 declaration that “l'art du futur sera aussi éthéré qu'un murmure étranglé,” this music is available as a free digital download/stream.

"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.

Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.

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

Last summer, we played, danced, fought, and conspired with panels in Seoul, each creating our own worlds. We’re now publishing a zine that captures those brief yet intensely condensed traces.

Aestheticisation of Violence in Military, Gaming, Social Media Cultures and Other Stories

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.

What exists beyond mere high agency? Join us for a live, experimental series on becoming wisely agentic. This is a 4-week experience @ The Stoa: Nov 19, 26, Dec 3, and 10 @ 7 p.m. ET. Choose a respectful price (recommended $50, but feel free to contribute more or less). Attendance at all sessions is not required.

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.

One way our world could go from here.

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

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.

Set of six stickers I designed, packaged in an adorable plastic pouch.

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in october 2025 ♡

The first issue of my typography driven daily design project.

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.

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.