A ZINE OF ART, WRITING, AND POLITICAL AGITATION.
WE PUBLISH WORK THAT CAPTURES THE POLITICAL REALITIES OF LIFE UNDER LATE CAPITALISM AND ENVISIONS WHAT COMES AFTER.
We went to hundreds of design conferences, were inspired by countless speakers and made tons of new connections and friends… but always walked away feeling like we were only talking about a fraction of what designers can do. This is an event dedicated to the rest of it.
ISSUE 3 SUBMISSIONS
OPEN 1-30 JUNE 2022
We were always taught that art creates problems and design solves them. Is that an overly limiting way to think of our practice? Are we closing ourselves off to interesting opportunities by not embracing the role of troublemakers?
‘I am interested in utopian thinking as a critical tool, a form of satire and irony... trying to develop interesting methods distributing propaganda and information within the hideous boredom of commercial space’
Nils Norman - Utopia Now: Interview with Jennifer Allen, 2002
Enjoy live demonstrations of papermaking, Japanese calligraphy, screenprinting and other craft traditions with applications to both art and design.