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If you’re wondering whether you should come back tomorrow, tell your friends, or finally grab that book you hesitated over… the answer is yes.
And if you need a little reminder why — here are 15 reasons you don’t want to miss Offprint London this year!
Last chance: tomorrow is the final day! 📚
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Mag Curator spotlight #12
Linguaphile Magazine | Issue 1
Thanks to Editor In Chief & Creative Director Mabu Nauendorff for helping put this one together and to Stack Magazines for their wonderful choice of publications.
Today on The Mortar we shared the story of Solitario Jorge (Lonesome George), the last known Pinta Island tortoise, and the 20,000 goats that were culled in his name. It was published in @anthrop_review , the environmental magazine published by students and alumni from Oxford University, and it reveals the winners, and losers, and hidden absurdities that are built into the conservation movement. Read the whole thing on The Mortar now (link in bio), and see the full illustration by @claudikessels , and of course sign up to our email list and we'll send our stories straight to your inbox every Tuesday and Friday.
I sat down with Steven Watson, founder of @stackmagazines , to talk about curation, permanence and why trust is becoming one of the most valuable currencies in modern media. 📚
We spoke about the difference between building for a feed versus building for an archive, why independent publishing still matters, and what happens to cultural taste in an era shaped by algorithms and infinite content.
One of the most interesting parts of the conversation was the idea that true curation isn’t about giving people more of what they already know, it’s about discernment, surprise and long-term trust.
Do people still crave permanence in media, or are we fully entering the disposable era?
Full conversation via the link in bio. 🎙️ #moderndaymade #moderninfluence #culturalcommentary #print #fyp
On The Mortar this morning we're sharing The Kingdom of Misfits – a brilliantly obsessive portrait of slime molds in Brooklyn, and their impossibly ancient past. This one was published by @aredotna in this year's annual, alongside loads of other great, mind-expanding writing. Go to The Mortar to read the full story, and to see the rest of the illustration by @sofia__with__f . And while you're there, sign up for free so we can deliver our selection of stories straight to your inbox on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Today's story on The Mortar is We Know These Winds, a portrait of Los Angeles written in the wake of last year's wildfires, and published by @loamlove . Writer and teacher Nicole Stanton reflects on her personal response to the fires, and the ideas of safety and community that hold us together in times of emergency, but also in everyday life. Read it in full on The Mortar (link in bio) and while you're there, sign up to the mailing list so we can send our stories straight to your inbox. Thanks very much @delaneygib for the indecision illustration!
Today on The Mortar, we're sharing Group Chât, which follows the meteroic rise of so-called ‘renotainment’. Published in @nyreviewofarch , it shows how castle DIY first went big on TV, then migrated to YouTube, creating a new breed of chatelain hustlers, all selling their own particular visions of the good life in the French countryside. You can read the whole thing, and see the full illustration by @sandychristillustration on The Mortar now (link in bio...)
매달 서프라이즈로 도착하는 Stack Magazines를 소개합니다! 👻
전 세계의 독립 잡지를 큐레이션하여 배송하는 이곳은, 단순히 잡지를 파는 것을 넘어 '아름답고 지적인 콘텐츠'의 가치를 기록하는 곳입니다. 에디터로서 이곳의 아카이브를 훑어보는 것만으로도 영감이 샘솟는데요
좋은 잡지 한 권이 삶을 어떻게 다채롭게 만드는지 함께 탐구해 볼까요? 여러분이 가장 인상 깊게 읽은 잡지는 무엇인가요? 댓글로 공유해 주세요! :)
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This morning on The Mortar we shared Ghosts in the Machine, a history of the humble typing indicator, and an account of the emotional anguish its creators unwittingly unleashed on the world. If you've ever sat watching the 'someone is typing' message, you'll know the feeling. As @millyburroughs2.0 puts it: “Someone was thinking about you. Writing to you. Not writing to you. The nuance of silence just got a little louder. A little more disturbing.” This story was published in @boot_mag and I'm really pleased we're able to share it on The Mortar, along with a great illustration by @tara_k_illustration . Take a look at The Mortar to read the story and to see the full illustration, and while you're there, sign up so we can deliver all our stories to you as soon as they're ready (link in bio...)
Today's story on The Mortar is One Terrifying Moment. It's told by Fiama, a shop assistant whose store is robbed, but as she says, "fear didn't come from the gun pointed at me, it came from my immigration status". It's a very direct piece of writing, with a quiet power that comes from Fiama's determination to carry on, and her realisation that maybe this traumatic episode will help her achieve the stability that she so craves for herself and her family. It was published in La Cuenta, a newsletter exploring the costs of being labelled 'undocumented' for around 11 million people in the US. You can read the whole thing on The Mortar now (link in bio) and see the full illustration, created by @veevagomez .
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