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Issue 42 - Architecture

The concrete logic of mid-century transit terminals

Examining how municipal concrete design engineered urban movement and why modern stations sacrifice spatial memory for frictionless throughput.

Issue 41 - Design

Against the smooth aesthetic of digital conformity

Why software interfaces and consumer objects have sanded away their rough edges to appease algorithms, leaving nothing worth keeping.

Issue 40 - Culture

Notes on the persistence of physical print

A dispatch from a basement letterpress studio exploring why tactile ink on cotton paper remains the ultimate antidote to ephemeral feeds.

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