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Go anywhere. Be anything. Live forever… if you want to. The inaugural issue of the zine from Concept Country, the world's first network state.
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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.
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Sharing Screen is an internet home tour series hosted by Matthew Prebeg and Kristoffer Tjalve. Each episode welcomes us to step into the landscape of a designer or artist who makes the internet blossom. The first season runs from May 26th to June 11th.
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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.
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"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
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"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.
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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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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.
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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
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AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot
by Nadia Piet, and internet teapot
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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.
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nCHANT's inaugural issue explores digital gardens as autonomous spaces for expression beyond platform capitalism. Features research with Trust community, essays on fractal structures, self-hosting guides, and philosophical dialogues. Published by REINCANTAMENTO, this issue offers a glimpse into a more personal Web.
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Fashion zine that highlights the artistry of Hmong designs during Hmong New Year.
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"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.
![How [Not] to Succeed at Substack: Visualized for Introverts, Outcasts & People Who Kinda Hate People](https://metalabel.imgix.net/QmYUrUyyNNoCV799W5yos9DF1cQTvTXRv2qGotTstvuSmd?auto=compress&w=600&h=600&fit=min)
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How [Not] to Succeed at Substack: Visualized for Introverts, Outcasts & People Who Kinda Hate People
by Tiny
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a tiny but mighty guide for folks who would love to succeed at Substack, because we ain't going back to retail.
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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. Ships May 2025. Pre-order now.
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A cookbook zine featuring recipes, essays, and artwork from a community of LGBTQ+ chefs, writers, and artists. All proceeds go to queer mutual aid organizations!
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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.
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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.
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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 Fall 2025
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On the Creative Life: Conversations Toward a New Creative Era
by Yancey Strickler, and Joshua Citarella
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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.
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“Only when we have eaten the last fish will we realize we can't eat money” Sakom (Chief) Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik
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A science-fiction liturgy and pilgrimage to the Agion Oros—Mt. Athos, Greece. Video, text and field recordings by Jeff Wood.
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The digital zine that is a result of the March 2025 Creasidence Comics Workshop held in Tokyo. Over the course of 4 days, 20 artists from around the world came together to co-create a comic zine centered around the theme of cherry blossom. Each page's center is the frame by Workshop Lead Mentor, renowned mangaka Akira Fukaya.
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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.
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A zine that outlines motivations, challenges, and hopes for open source creative technology communities—and offers ways to begin the process of values alignment in these spaces.
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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.
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This is a glossy metal glossy glossy white laser-cut steel infinity painting. Welcome to your 9”x9” patch of heaven {!} With 8 rearrangeable subjects+landscapes+objs, printed as vinyl magnets, so that everyday::: u get a shiny_shiny new wrld.
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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.
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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
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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.
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A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)
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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)
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Here is a reality ~ 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒. This is the film. Sillyfunsilly visuals, cynicism, narcissism, avatars and music. (We are camouflaging Loobi's aching emptiness, as she endlessly searches for a sense of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦/𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚/𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.) Loobtopia is fickle, noncommittal and vapid. IT IS SUCH FUN. W3lc0m3 Fr13Nd$. ᴛꜱ&ᴄꜱ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ.
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Created in just 4 days by 20 artists, this zine is the result of the first Creasidence Comics Workshop in Tokyo — an international program uniting visual storytellers to create a playful journey through Harajuku, page by page in collaboration with mentors. Exhibited and released as a limited edition physical comic book at SOMSOC Gallery.
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Soft sculptures. Hand made in NYC. Signed and installed with charged gems that expand your love and happiness.
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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.
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Black Box is a 1-hour sonic, cinematic, and poetic experience—a cassette tape remembering itself as 50 years of domestic disaster capitalism compressed into 1.5 archival seconds of algorithmic lawn.
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Documentation of Caribbean culture in digital spaces and as digital artifacts; working through the shape and form of a nutmeg each edition includes a unique text file of an erotic future. Metalabel listings are in USD. Visit the InterAccess Gallery for in-person sales.
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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 June 2025. Pre-order now.
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"Airway Beacons and Concrete Arrows" is the first exploration of Sky is Busy, a research and resource tool for aviation, air, weather enthusiasts focused on visual learning and the importance of hands-on craft, design, and a purposefully designed education system.
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This zine presents a new way of thinking about the promises and pitfalls of artmaking for digital and social change—one that, instead of falling prey to the cat-and-mouse dynamic of Big Tech and its extractive systems, takes advantage of duration, time, and conformity to its own advantages.
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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.
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The Autonomous Worlds Network’s first publication offers a new vocabulary for a new era of worlding.
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On a trip to Australia, composer Jlin transformed samples from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum collection into an eclectic and unique composition that highlights her connection to both maths and music.