Collector #16

On dealing with creative anxiety: PDF Edition

A 52-page zine exploring how artists can channel their creative anxiety. Features contributions and insights from Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Broder, Anelise Chen, Jlin, Mike Rugnetta, Henry Rollins, and Nikki Sixx

Collector #51

A New Creative Era: New Creative Era (digital)

In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era.

This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download. Join us!

Collector #62

Notes: Edition 001 - PREORDER

Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors. Ranging from packing lists to unsaid romantic confessions, Notes shows the full spectrum of human experience encapsulated in one irreplaceable app––dark mode, of course.

Collector #8

B.O.O.G.E.R. Manifesto & Principles: Manifesto & Principles

The first available public declaration and guiding principles of the Deterministic Intranasal Guild, as written and executed by the Board Of Olfactory Grazing Engagement Review.

Collector #1

Shower Thoughts: On Water, Intimacy, and Digitality: Shower Thoughts (Printed)

What is a shower? And how does one begin to untangle the paradoxes and dynamism of showers from their sleek facades? "Shower Thoughts" is an artist book combining quirky social experiments, serious theories, and artwork documentation—all centered on the shower—to explore their potential as embodied network in the post-digital age.

Collector #53

Embrace Variety Vol.01: Embrace Variety Vol.01

Embrace Variety Vol.01 contains three guides about the core and often overlooked aspects of visual branding: personality, design taboos, and the North Star. It is for everyone who wants to give their brand an image that stands out, stands the time and resonates. And for those who want to take better control of the branding process.

Collector #47

I am filled with warmth: Digital Zine

A collection of lived experiences that has filled me with warmth and has made me question why I am here.

Collector #76

Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making: Vol 1.

Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

Collector #2

temporary candle: one

one of the countless ways to self-awareness is through awareness of one’s mortality, or one’s temporality, so to speak. this realization softens the heart, even though it comes with pain.

Collector #69

Hard Imagination : Hard Imagination : the dark white paper [PDF]

Hard Imagination invites Venture Capitalists to see a world beyond an extractive mindset, to create pathways for capital allocation that are not self-terminating

Limited run of 23 bound copies or download the PDF for free

Collector #20

Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001: Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001

In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.

Collector #123

Anonymous Creative Futures Report: Creative Futures Anonymous: 2025 Edition (print)

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.