Five on Friday • 08.07.26
Ideas, stories, and inspiration to discover, explore, and make.
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THIS BOOK LIVES OUTSIDE
(and it’s not for sale)
I ♡ this! So far there have been no confirmed sightings in Illinois 😕 – but let me know if you need an Alfresco Distributor in Chicago Travis Nichols!
Greg Longstreet Celebrates Cinema with His Indie Film Zine ‘Ritual’
A PRINT ONLY film-zine for your inner cinephile.
Available at select locations or via this link →
Erik Winkowski’s Zinemail No. 3
Y’all know I’m a paper over pixels person, but digital zines can do a couple things that paper and ink can’t touch.
Check out Erik’s mesmerizing, moving zine ↓
Another great example of the digital zine format:
Public Source neighborhood zines
Explore Pittsburgh neighborhoods through the people who live there.
Our neighborhood zines bring together reporting, photography, illustrations and community voices to offer a closer look at the places that shape our region. Browse each edition to meet residents, discover local stories and better understand what matters in communities across the Pittsburgh area.
Browse the Pittsburgh neighborhood zines →
Bone folder press is calling on YOU to make an ART ZINE ↓
Read full note →
From this week’s Makeist newsletter
The David Rumsey Map Collection is a single-subject online Curiosity Cabinet on steroids. More than 149,000 of its 200,000+ items have been scanned and digitized at an astonishingly high resolution.
Great stuff! My favorite is No. 1!