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Welcome to the New Creative Era
Where artists, creators, and collectors release and support the world we want to see
The dawn of a new epoch often arrives without fanfare-a subtle shift in the wind, an almost imperceptible change in the cadence of daily life. So it was with the advent of non-human knowledge workers. Now they populate our workplaces, outnumbering their human colleagues. Their presence has reshaped not only the mechanics of work, but its soul.
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The second release from Evan Roth is part mundane performance, part nostalgia. A glimpse into a larger series of works that are sometimes blown to grand proportions, "Multi-touch Paintings" turns everyday phone gestures (RIP swipe to unlock) into gentle artifacts that remind us nothing is safe from becoming obselete.
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75 artists and creators anonymously share their thoughts and fears about the year ahead, available digitally and worldwide.
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GIRL INTELLIGENCE by Alex Quicho examines how the Girl persists and mutates through media, politics, and tech—not just as aesthetic but as active force. A sharp theoretical work that reveals surprising truths about power, visibility, and resistance. Out now via Aksioma.
Drive It All Over Me
Joshua Citarella and 1 other
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An investigation of works Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Vanessa Place, and Jack Goldstein, Drive It All Over Me's perfect longform essay style explores how artists hide deeper meanings under narrative and sculptural material through text-based visual work
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As active members of the fanclub for Traceloops we cannot begin to describe the euphoria this latest release has wrought on us. This release offers a single, group, or whole set of miniature flipbooks whose pages show dancing, melting, and conjoining faces rendered in beautiful black-and-white ink drawings. Like all Traceloops work, the experience is very physical, as collectors rip open the small envelope containing the pieces. Can you tell we're collectors too?
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From a private newsletter to the perfectly seeded idea, "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" captures the creeping reality that the internet has become increasingly hostile, and eleven of our favorite online voices' perspectives on how to live, create, and conspire within it.
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One of our fave cultural thinkers collects a series of exceptional essays on the nature of taste, aesthetics, and truth in a beautiful print package Sharp, smart, and on point
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Three troublemakers - a systems thinker, design rebel, and art activist - get together in an abandoned London club to figure it out. The result is this Dark White Paper that calls on Venture Capitalists to envision a world not based on extraction but "Togetherness." Available in extremely limited physical form, and digitally for free.
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EMPOWA has taken the structure and teachings from the iconic “The Artist’s Way” and turned them into a tool that anyone can use to develop their creative practice. The download makes a special area of your Notion for Morning Pages and your other creative rituals, helping to transform intention into actual action and results. Clever, nearly free, and the work of one artist supporting their fellow artists.
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The $100 Garbage Cube That Sold Out in Two Hours
A designer turned New York City trash into coveted collectibles, proving that value is less about what you sell than how you sell it.
How culture is made
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.
Supporting Creative Networks: From Underground Music to Museum Leadership
A museum director bridges institutional and underground
This zine just got 1,000+ collectors in 28 hours
An Instagram meme page dedicated to the bluegrass musician Billy Strings turns into a 1,000 strong collector community overnight
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