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Editor's Picks (June 24, 2024)

Featured Releases Shantell Sans Shantell Martin Font library | .zip download Open edition Beloved visual artist Shantell Martin returns to Metalabel with a release that turns her iconic handwriting — the star of her visual work — into a font that anyone can use. The radicalness of this act should not be underestimated.

Promotional principles for creative people

Promotional principles for creative people

Plus the Creative Independent reissues “On making a living as an artist”

Q&A: Forever Magazine on making your own magazine

Q&A: Forever Magazine on making your own magazine

Behind the scenes of a Downtown NYC staple

Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion

Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion

In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed. Before the internet being an artist meant operating in a very specific area where the gatekeepers, critics, and ways of doing things were well-structured and defined. You as the artist plugged into this system if

Editor's Picks (June 6, 2024)

Editor's Picks (June 6, 2024)

木 mù and 水 shuǐ by Anonymous — 木 mù and 水 shuǐ are two art books by a studio based in Singapore and Thailand that playfully explore two of the most ubiquitous substances in our daily lives: wood and water. We cherish the thoughtful and imaginative meditations on materials we