Nathaniel Hein

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Nathaniel Hein

Joined Metalabel 09/12/2025
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Metalabel squad
Anonymous Creative Futures 2026

Anonymous Creative Futures 2026

by IY, and Yancey Strickler

Collector #151

Economic precarity is up. Market demands are too. People are drowning in digital overload. Political threats loom. The second Anonymous Creative Futures survey shares what 300+ anon artists and creators feel about this moment, their words 100%.

peckhamdigital
Peckham Digital - Network Terminal
Plotter Spectrum Zine Bundle

Plotter Spectrum Zine Bundle

by Liquid Experimental Media, and danielle paterson

Collector #1

LIMITED EDITION Issue #1 & Issue #2 for the Plotter Spectrum Zine

isnot
IS NOT MUSIC
Is Not Music. Zine Issue 02

Is Not Music. Zine Issue 02

by IS NOT MUSIC., Valerie Kamen, and 2 more

Collector #5

Is Not Music. Issue 02 highlights artists whose legacies far outstrip conventional measures of success. In a time when the future feels stalled — these artists serve as our north stars. They’re mile markers we glimpse as we drive forward. Ships Worldwide.

isnot
IS NOT MUSIC
IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

by IS NOT MUSIC., Alec Hanley Bemis, and 3 more

Collector #10

Is Not Music is a multi-platform project that creates, contextualizes, explores and archives work from artists. We work in physical & digital formats while making sure to privilege the former (IRL experience) over the latter (AI slop, social media & other algorithmic-driven popularity contests).

chorist
Chorist
Power Chords

Power Chords

by Chadwick Wood

Collector #30

Two new Chorist tracks; physical zine + digital audio. The zine is printed on the artist's father's computer science homework papers from the early 80's. Limited edition. Free.

creativeminds
Creative Minds
✦ 2025 Art Calendar Collection ✦

Collector #13

Celebrating the new year, I've designed minimal art calendars that feature master paintings and raw photos from the Bauhaus school. Ready for you to print.

creativeminds
Creative Minds
✦ 2025 Art Calendar Collection ✦

Collector #5

Celebrating the new year, I've designed minimal art calendars that feature master paintings and raw photos from the Bauhaus school. Ready for you to print.

instituteofmachineunlearning
Institute of Machine Unlearning
Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #1: Cosmic Sans Software

Collector #73

Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.

instituteofmachineunlearning
Institute of Machine Unlearning
Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #2: Free Trade

Collector #30

Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.

peckhamdigital
Peckham Digital - Network Terminal
AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

by Identity 2.0, and danielle paterson

Collector #20

A zine documenting conversations about resistance from activists outside of technology to translate into modes of resistance against genAI models.

becomingpress
Becoming
Affects & Dreams: a Manual for Becoming (2023)

Collector #33

Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.

benjifriedman
Benji Friedman
Piles

Piles

by Benji

Collector #4

Pictures of dirt, gravel, sand, etc. piles from around Berkeley, CA and the greater Bay Area.

creativeminds
Creative Minds
Typography — Basics

Collector #22

A practical introduction to typography; from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment, for people who want to create type that reads beautifully and feels intentional.

duncan
Duncan!
To Pigeon-Fill the Sky

To Pigeon-Fill the Sky

by Duncan Petrie

Collector #5

A photographic storybook about the creative process, artificial intelligence, and, of course, pigeons.

benjifriedman
Benji Friedman
November 2025

Collector #3

Art and photos released November 2025

mentalpocusrecords
Mental Pocus Records
Fragments of Spirit Vol. 1 - ECOllective enSEMBLE

Fragments of Spirit Vol. 1 - ECOllective enSEMBLE

by Martin Zamorano, and Danica Hobden

Collector #3

ECOllective EnSEMBLE is a Hamburg-based group navigating the edges of free improvisation, where children songs, rock ecstasy, jazz extravaganza and avant-grade catharsis come together. Laboratory Fragments is a collage of several free improvised sets recorded in sessions between 2023 and 2024.

merielhooray
Meriel
Entopica Type

Entopica Type

by Meriel Allen

Collector #4

Typographic explorations into automatism and occult ideology to discover geometric forms intended by the Universe

midlit
midlit
a guide to reading

a guide to reading

by Rina Beaumont

Collector #10

a girl's bedroom story for the vanishing second internet, this .pdf is a collectible scrap taken from an ongoing confessional prose-poetry project. it is for the girl and her shadow. it should be read alone at 4am, or opened and discarded like an inexpensive gift.

metalabel-ac8399o
Source Material Studio
Stillness is a Move

Stillness is a Move

by Source Material Studio, Mr Smith, and 1 more

Collector #28

Source Material Studio presents Stillness is a Move, the first publication in a new series exploring visual culture and creative practice. This edition introduces Stillness Mode, a developing framework that reflects on how images behave within contemporary conditions shaped by speed and constant motion.

in-process
In Process
Dinner Club, Conversation Prompts

Collector #37

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

now
NOW
Free Fonts!  A Curated Collection for Authors, Artists and Entrepreneurs with a Need for Speed

Collector #7

a tiny but mighty curated collection of free kid friendly fonts ideal for authors & artists and entrepreneurs. (especially those of us who are writing to inspire kids and teens) An unconventional collection of free Google fonts....and the juicy details they won't tell you about why they rock.

becomingpress
Becoming
Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023) by Ulysse Carrière

Collector #19

This book presents a resolute answer to the question of A.I. and art that is both elegant and radical. The time of the artist is over; the time of art has come.

txt
TXT
Circulation | Issue 001

Circulation | Issue 001

by Seth Indigo Carnes, Alfred Steiner, and 3 more

Collector #3

Circulation is an experimental journal exploring the movement of concepts and research in contemporary art. Issue 1 features primary information in draft form, including The Artist's Contract for Decentralized Art (ACDA), an open source legal agreement for use in the transfer of decentralized art, and a draft definition of decentralized art itself.

challah
#Challah!
Tiny Tips, Tools and Templates for Authors, Artists and Entrepreneurs

Collector #4

a tiny but mighty collection of fonts and templates for self published authors, artists and entrepreneurs in 2026. Specifically for Jewish authors, artists and entrepreneurs, these resources are also useful for anyone who is writing a childrens book (or a tiny non fiction book) in 2026

neuromantics
Neuromantics
TechnoMirage

TechnoMirage

by Underground Art And Design, and Julienne DeVita

Collector #62

An archive of the TechnoMirage event series, bringing together exhibitions, talks and artist interviews that examine the illusion of progress projected by AI and exploring how creative practitioners can reclaim agency through exhibitions, discourses, and practices that shape more equitable relationships with emerging technologies.

sayang
Sayang
Try CPR: Clothing Patch & Repair

Collector #2

Save your clothes and learn how to bring them back to life with this instructional zine and mending kit.

mollybakerragan
Molly Baker Ragan
What Do You See?

What Do You See?

by Molly Ragan

Collector #6

Find order in a chaotic world with whatdoyousee.nyc, a participatory web-based archive composed of curiosity, code, and hundreds of photos of everyday New York City.

avisolomon
Avi Solomon
Apollo 17 Astronauts leaving Earth for the Moon in 1972

Collector #3

Apollo 17 Blue Marble 16mm onboard footage of Earth

elysian
Elysian Collective
Let Cities Build Utopia

Let Cities Build Utopia

by Elle Griffin, Greg Miller, and 4 more

Collector #12

Cities should build utopia. Nations should let them. Residents should benefit from them.

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue ten

Collector #4

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in january 2026 ♡

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue nine

Collector #3

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in december 2025 ♡

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue eight

Collector #6

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in november 2025 ♡

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue seven

Collector #4

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in october 2025 ♡

logos
Logos Parallel Societies
Farewell to Westphalia

Collector #3

What comes after the 400-year-old nation-state system? Has this revolution already started from the depths of the internet? Farewell to Westphalia explores what is likely to succeed nation states, from cyberstates to internet movements, backed by the authors’ decades of experience.

logos
Logos Parallel Societies
Logos "Open Source Everything" Zine

Collector #8

Logos organises around a common purpose: protecting individual freedom and enabling collective prosperity. Our culture is merit-based and participatory, welcoming of contributions of all kinds — code, ideas, design, writing. The "Open Source Everything" zine is the first collective print collaboration in the Logos Network.

elysian
Elysian Collective
The Elysian Manifesto

The Elysian Manifesto

by Elle Griffin

Collector #5

One way our world could go from here.

elysian
Elysian Collective
The Elysian Manifesto

The Elysian Manifesto

by Elle Griffin

Collector #41

One way our world could go from here.

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue six

Collector #1

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in september 2025 ♡

objectsof
objects of
The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

by Nick Susi, and Domingo Beta

Collector #10

A century-old myth. Aliens, war and magic. What do they reveal about our modern era of technology and media? The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place is a 24-page tabloid newspaper created by Nick Susi with visual objects by Domingo Beta. Debuted at FWB FEST25, with an original score by VÉRITÉ.

elysian
Elysian Collective
CITY-STATE

CITY-STATE

by Elle Griffin, Bryce Tolpen, and 6 more

Collector #59

Seven writers explore the future of autonomous governance.

buildinpublic-s663
Build In Public University
The New Internet Manifesto

Collector #24

This was the manifesto that launched the time machine.

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue five

Collector #27

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in august 2025 ♡

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue four

Collector #17

a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in july 2025 ♡

maddiepotocnik
Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue three

Collector #11

a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in june 2025 ♡

athousandforests
A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Collector #715

"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

livingweb
Living Web Institute
Internet Phone Book

Internet Phone Book

by Kristoffer Tjalve, Elliott Cost, and 11 more

Collector #34

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Ships from Europe.