Paolo Prendin (b.1991 in Padova,Italy) is an editorial and commercial photographer, whose practice is equally dedicated to the research as well as to investigating the medium.
Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation.
This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.
A Manual For Our Time — the first Hard Art Manifesto.
This is a book about how to survive on the internet.
It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us.
This is The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet (second printing)
An exploration of individuality after the internet
The Post-Individual Open Edition
Includes:
— The Post Individual essay
— An audio recording by the author
— A video introduction
— Research notes, early drafts, and slides
A trilogy of essays published from 2019 through 2021 that explores why I and others feel less comfortable showing our true selves online
Reissued here with the original piece, two follow-up essays, and a podcast conversation with The Stoa exploring the concept
Collect the original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including:
— Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021
— The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022
— Further research, first published in October 2022
Preserved and collectible as a new media archive for the first time
Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years?
"After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online.
Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine