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Thank you to everyone who came to our launch party to celebrate our Special Edition. It was wonderful to see so many of you as excited as we were for our latest edition. A massive thanks to @hiren_parm for providing an immaculate dj set and @jumbipeckham for hosting us.

You can buy our Special Edition, Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right: Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis by following the link in our bio.

🌍 Worldwide shipping
📖 Print magazine: £9, digital magazine: £4.50
🔗 Order now, link in bio

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✨ TONIGHT ✨ from 7pm at @jumbipeckham we are holding the special edition of @itsfreezinginla launch party. To celebrate, we are sharing few snapshots from our collaborative publishing process.

When devising the approach for ‘Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right’, retrofitting became the leading design method. We started off by analysing, deconstructing and reformulating previous 9 issues of IFLA! as a strategy to examine type + image hierarchies and form new layouts. Our aim was to honour and ‘build from’ the existing material rather than come up with something entirely new; a sister publication. Collaboration was at the core of this iterative process – sharing references, ideas and ‘culture jamming’ them together in meetings and conversations allowed for design and editorial voices to support one another.

Slides: (1) Format testing: little sister, twin sister, big sister. (2,3) Sharing references. (4) Happy accidents and new relationships; mix-matching previous layouts. (5,6) Culture jamming in search of a title. (7-10) Developing the cover.

Thank you to our collaborators and fellow publishing chefs, Art Editor @ninarosiekelleycarter, Creative Director and Designer @matthevvlevvis, Editor @martha__dillon and Deputy Editor @jackson.howarth for their trust and support throughout the project.

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Ahead of the @itsfreezinginla special edition launch party next Wednesday @jumbipeckham, we’ll be sharing some of the design details of the issue, starting with the signs and symbols used throughout. In keeping with the previous 9 issues of IFLA! each article is supported by a visual representation, some literal others more gestural or abstract. These come together on the back cover contents and are spliced throughout the issue (slides 1,2,3,5). The concept of retrofitting underpinned our design approach, so instead of drawing a new set of icons the team searched for signs that could be repurposed. Research sources included Henry Dryerfuss’ ‘Symbol Sourcebook’ (slide 4), Ernst Lehner’s ‘The Picture Book of Symbols’ (slide 6), and more which are referenced in the publication.

Thank you to our fellow symbol and sign hunters, Art Editor @ninarosiekelleycarter and Creative Director and Designer @matthevvlevvis, and to the wider IFLA! Team, Editor @martha__dillon and Deputy Editor @jackson.howarth for their trust and support throughout the project.

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Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right is a collection of creative responses to the climate emergency, published by the team behind @itsfreezinginla with @openpractice_. Mixing creative writing, images and essays, this new publication explores how different types of imaginative work can grapple with the ecological, justice and political challenges we face. Out now.

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Exciting news: This month, the fine folks at @itsfreezinginla are releasing a special edition focused on creative responses to the climate crisis.

The issue is titled ‘Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right’ and features everything from algorithmic gardens to sound archives and protest art, and even includes a closer look at a few of our past WDCD Challenge winners.

We are proud to be a part of this collection and to continue the conversation around how different types of imaginative work can grapple with the ecological, justice and political challenges we face.

📖 Get your copy now at the link in bio!

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❗️ORDER NOW❗️

We couldn’t be more excited to announce a special edition of It’s Freezing in LA! is available to order now.

Penguins and polar bears, floods and fires – the climate movement is littered with increasingly tired images and symbols; the tokens of corporate inaction, sluggish conferences, and an environmentalism that often leaves people, politics and justice behind. So what images, stories, sounds, and performances might be more effective?

‘Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right’ is a collection of creative responses to the climate emergency, and has been created in collaboration with @openpractice_

Mixing creative writing, images and essays, this new publication explores how different types of imaginative work can grapple with the ecological, justice and political challenges we face.

🗓️ Released 21 June 2023
🔗 Order now, link in bio
📖 Print magazine: £9, digital magazine: £4.50

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things from 2022 🌐🐛🦋

big thanks to all the lovely people I worked with, for making last year full of lots of v fun design and writing and thinking ✨

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Our little Shape of Words publication is nearly sold out!!

Thank you to everyone who has come along for the ride and supported us, we couldn’t have done it without you 🫶🏼
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Shape of Words is a printed platform for contemporary creatives to react and reflect on what is shaping their practices today. The contributions – including essays, interviews and fictional narratives, as well as tweets, screenshots and journal entries – illustrate a diverse range of perspectives within and surrounding the fields of art and design. Collectively bound, they act as a time capsule of the issues and ideas that inform creativity.
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Designed and curated by @harold__bennett @alicesherwin_ & @emsjudd

Edited by @openpractice_ (@kleevans + @gabrielam_m ) ✨

A special thank you to all the amazing contributors, our lovely printer @me__print and our incredibly supportive stockist @thebrandidentity 💙

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Hi! After a long time, I would like to catch up by first introducing a nice project by London-based creatives @alicesherwin_ , @emsjudd and @harold__bennett (@studiogroundfloor)

❧ Shape of Words

Edited by @openpractice_ , They describe it as a “platform for contemporary visual communicators to respond and reflect on what shapes their practices today”. It is a sort of small collection of essays, interviews, narrative fiction and even tweets that act together as a time capsule of located issues and ideas about our jobs.

I'm very happy to see my first reflections on my practice inside the #1 issue alongside a multitude of other designers who are letterforms nerd (Raissa Pardini, AbcDinamo, Floriane Rousselot...). I wrote these few lines when I was still a naive and enthusiastic student and it's nice to discover them today and see how our thoughts evolve :).

Thank you Alice, Emma & Harold for your kindness!
You can find the book on @thebrandidentity.

ps: I was also delighted to see myself renamed Morgane "Vantoore", aha! 🤓

Featured Creatives⁠:
Mane Tatoulian, Matt Asato-Adams, Lukas Keysell, Michela Zoppi, Grace Lister, Meghan Doran, Monique Jackson, Rene Matić, Holly St Clair, Thea Bryant, Lily Gale, Rosie May, Adam Higton, Snootie Studios, Nikolas Wrobel, Dinamo, Charlotte Rohde, Ciarán Birch, Raissa Pardini, Floriane Rousselot, Morgane Vantorre, Laura Csocsán, Rose Allert, Romina Malta, Okocha Obasi, Clarice Tudor, ICBQ, Agnete Morell, Olivia McEwan-Hill, Anna Ottum and George Creese.⁠

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Spreads (and the world’s best free-with-the-book-in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-buy-it bookmark by @claricetudor ) from Shape of Words 🟨🟡⚠️

Available to buy now exclusively from @thebrandidentity — link in my bio 💙

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Designed and curated by: @alicesherwin_ @emsjudd @harold__bennett

Edited by the lovely: @openpractice_ @kleevans @gabrielam_m

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So pleased to have been able to contribute to Shape of Words!

My essay ‘Working With Craft: Do We Correctly Value the Applied Arts’ is in very good company amongst essays, fictional narratives, tweets and screenshots that share a diverse range of perspectives surrounding the fields of art and design ✏️

Big thanks to @studiogroundfloor @emsjudd & @openpractice_ for having me in this project! You can get a copy on @thebrandidentity - head to the link in my bio 💛 (also comes with a GREAT bookmark by @claricetudor )

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