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Erika Altosaar

Canada-based Erika contributed pencil on mylar artwork to issue 1, and also styled a look based on Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World that appeared both in the issue and on select bookmarks included with the issue.

More: ealtosaar.blogspot.com
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Andrew Andrew

For issue 2, New York City-based creatives Andrew Andrew imagined a post-apocalyptic New York City in “Status Update.”

More: andrewandrewdotcom.com

Nico Antonelli

For issue 1, Nico styled a look based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden that appeared both in the issue and on select bookmarks included with the issue.

More: vanilla-dust.blogspot.com

Ashley Avignone

Ashley Avignone is a stylist who lives and works in the city of Los Angeles.

For issue 2, Ashley shared her favorite Los Angeles spots discovered by happy accident.

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Jenni Avins

Jenni is a multimedia journalist and the founder of Closettour, a website devoted to putting the “wonder” in wondering what to wear.

For issue 1, Jenni worked with optical physics scientist Jon Schuller to investigate negative spaces for the transmission of light waves.

More: jenniavins.com, Closettour
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Eric Balliantz

Eric Baliantz is a journalist and merchant marine. He lives in Brooklyn. His report, “Living in Negative Space,” appeared in issue 1.

Noma Bar

The work of Israeli born illustrator Noma Bar employs negative space not to play a visual trick on the audience but to invite them to question what they see. His ambiguous images are steeped in meaning and express a view point much more philosophical than your standard magazine graphic which is why publications like The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, Wallpaper and Time Out London often commission him to illustrate features.

Last year Bar published his second book, a collection of illustrations entitled Negative Space. The images employ negative space as a technical tool and to explore what he describes as negative issues.

Noma was interviewed contributing editor Laura Havlin in issue 1.

More: nomabar.com

Nicholas Bentham

A London-based fashion photographer, Nicholas contributed a photograph to issue 1.

Diane Birch

Diane Birch is a singer/songwriter.

For issue 2, Diane recalled imaginary friends and her childhood obsession with the past.

More: dianebirch.com
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Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung likes things to look nice. Her photos, “This space looks pretty negative to me,” appeared in issue 1.

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Kate Cox

Kate is a London-based photographer. Her photo essay, “Negative Space,” appeared in issue 1.

More: katecox.co.uk

Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel writes music, sings, and acts on screens, small and big. She is one half of indie folk duo SHE & HIM, and a co-founder of hellogiggles.com, a comedy website for the ladies. She dances, too, but just for fun.

For issue 2, Zooey selected and captioned her seven “Morning Records for Night Owls and the Faint of Heart.”

More: sheandhim.com, hellogiggles.com
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Kyle Fitzpatrick

Kyle Fitzpatrick is the editor of Los Angeles I’m Yours and a creative partner at The Fox is Black

For issue 2, Kyle, along with Bobby Solomon, shared his favorite places in Los Angeles.

More: laimyours.com, thefoxisblack.com
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Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson is the editor of Rookie magazine.

For issue 1, Tavi styled and photographed a look based on the cover of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood that appeared both in the issue and on select bookmarks included with the issue.

More: rookiemag.com
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Jody Godoy

Jody Godoy is a journalist and writer lost in Los Angeles.

For issue 2, Jody shared her favorite places in Los Angeles discovered by coincidence or accident.

More: jodygodoy.com

Christina Gregory

Christina Gregory lives in Los Angeles, CA. She occasionally expresses an opinion on her blog, notesontone.blogspot.com.

For issue 2, Christina contributed the essay, “Zumba Queen.”

More: notesontone.blogspot.com

E.A. Hanks

E.A. Hanks has contributed to VanityFair.com, Jezebel.com, and TheAwl.com. Her first novel will be published by Random House. She likes Los Angeles just fine.

For issue 2, she wrote an essay, “The
Vanishing Act,” about leaving New York City for Los Angeles.

More: impudentways.blogspot.com
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Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison is a freelance writer and editor specializing in food, nutrition, and health, and holds a master’s degree in public health nutrition.

For issue 2, Christy reported on the role of chance in our choosing of food.

For issue 1, Christy contributed “-Free Food,” a report about culinary taboo.

More: christyharrison.com
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Lizz Hickey

A Brooklyn-based artist, Lizz’s etching, “Suzy,” appeared in issue 1.

More: lizzhickey.com
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Catherine Ireton

Catherine Ireton is an Irish singer and actress and is the lead vocalist of Belle & Sebastian’s God Help the Girl.

For issue 2, Catherine wrote about her experiences “Engineering Chance” in an ensemble, site-specific theatre production.

More: godhelpthegirl.com

Ben Jones

A Los Angeles-based artist, Ben illustrated “Zumba Queen,” an essay by Christina Gregory for issue 2.

More: benjaminqjones.org

Miranda July

At a time when there are still few women with strong, singular voices in modern cinema, there is Miranda July. A fearless writer, director, performer, and visual artist, her film debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, won the Caméra d’Or at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival. She has since authored No One Belongs Here More Than You, a short story collection and recipient of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. 2011 saw the release of the feature film, The Future, a genre-bender involving talking cats and moons.

For issue 2, Miranda talked to Andi Teran about characters, cats, and coincidences.

More: mirandajuly.com

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, a trio of London siblings who, along with their parents Graeme and Ingrid, are bringing their vintage-tinged sound (and look) to the forefront of new music. Hard to classify, they are collective multi-instrumentalists who blend R&B, swing, rockabilly, country, and blues, and sell out venues to crowds all over Great Britain.

For issue 2, Kitty talked to Andi Teran about life in a family band and recording their album, Smoking in Heaven.

More: kittydaisyandlewis.com

Thessaly La Force

Thessaly La Force is a Meta Rosenberg Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

For issue 2, Thessaly contributed the essay “The Economy of Coincidences.”

More: thessalylaforce.com

Paige Maguire

Paige Maguire is a writer and music nerd living in Austin, Texas.

For issue 1, Paige compiled a downloadable playlist of songs she best felt made use of negative space.

More: flux-rad.com

Shannon Maldonado

Shannon Maldonado is a designer living in New York City. When she is not eating Mexican food or crushing karaoke ballads, she curates I Love Hot Dogs, a film blog.

For issue 1, Shannon interpreted negative space in film stills.

More: ilovehotdogs.net

Lucy Martin

Lucy Martin is currently a Ph.D. researcher following seven years as an archaeological illustrator and photographer in Oxford, England. She got her first “decent” camera in 2007 and photography quickly became her “greatest joy.” Claiming an “oldy-worldy” sense of aesthetics, with a focus on traditional subjects, her circular panoramas and roundographs are very much rooted in the present.

Two of Lucy’s roundographs appeared in issue 1.

More: lucymartinart.net

Emily May

Emily May is a British artist and illustrator.

For issue 2, Lucy contributed “The City of Leeds,” a montage of architecture and sculpture in pen on paper.

More: emilymayillustration.co.uk

Peter Mendelsund

Peter Mendelsund is an art director at Knopf and Pantheon publishers in New York. He is also a classical pianist.

For issue 2, Peter contributed “Die Zauberlehring,” a collection of works derived from mapping various visual correspondences on composer Gyorgy Ligeti’s printed page.

More: jacketmechanical.blogspot.com

Hannah & Landon Metz

For issue 1, Hannah and Landon styled looks based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, respectively, that appeared both in the issue and on select bookmarks included with the issue.

More: hannahandlandon.blogspot.com

Mike Mills

Beginners, the second feature film from writer/director Mike Mills, stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Mélanie Laurent. Inspired by the true-life tale of his father coming out of the closet at the age of 75, just a few years before succumbing to cancer, Beginners is a modernist love story about a father and son, a boy and a girl, a mother and son, and a man and his dog.

For issue 2, Mike contributed drawings used in Beginners and talked to Andi Teran about making the film, coincidences, and fireworks.

More: mikemillsweb.com, humans.jp

Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery is an UK-based artist.

For issue 2, Rob contributed
“WHENEVER YOU SEE THE SUN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A BUILDING IT IS AN ANGEL,” occupying the center spread of the issue as a framable poster.

More: robertmontgomery.org

Thurston Moore

Associations: Sonic Youth, Ecstatic Peace Library, “none of the above.”.

For issue 1, Thurston interpreted negative space as “the ultimate ambition of any real true black metal warrior.”

N–Z

Maud Newton

Maud Newton is a writer, critic, and blogger living in Brooklyn.

For issue 2, Maud recalled a near-death experience in “Offhand Rescue.”

More: maudnewton.com
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Hans-Ulrich Obrist is the co-curator of London’s Serpentine art gallery. In his spare time he nurtures a keen interest in philosophy and has recorded around two thousand personal conversations with some of the World’s leading thinkers. The Serpentine hosts an annual marathon where artists, authors, philosophers, and innovators are invited to talk about a given topic.

For issue 2, Hans-Ulrich spoke to Laura Havlin about coincidences in his work.

Jessica Pigza

Jessica Pigza is the rare book librarian at the New York Public Library.

For issue 1, Jessica selected and captioned her favorite book spines from the New York Public Library’s archive.

More: handmadelibrarian.com

George Pringle

George Pringle is a musician and artist from London, England. Her debut album, Salon des Refusés was released in September of 2009.

For issue 1, George selected her favorite book spines from her personal collection.

George Prochnik

George Prochnik is the author most recently of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening For Meaning In a World Of Noise. He is currently at work on a book about collecting, memory, and dementia. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Playboy and Cabinet, among other publications.

issue 1 featured an excerpt from George’s In Pursuit of Silence: Listening For Meaning In a World Of Noise and an original essay, “Negative Space and the Pursuit of Silence.”

More: georgeprochnik.com
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Mindy Ramaker

Mindy is a Los Angeles-based creative. Her fiction, “In Between Salutations,” and artwork “1% Art,” appeared in issue 1.

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Pamela Ribon

Pamela Ribon is a bestselling novelist, TV writer, derby skater, wonder killer and professional silly person.

For issue 2, Pam shared her favorite places in Los Angeles discovered by coincidence or accident.

More: pamie.com
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Sophia Rossi

Sophia Rossi is a producer and co-founder of the website hellogiggles.com. She loves reality shows more than she loves animals.

For issue 2, Sophia wrote an essay detailing why MTV may be to blame for her perspective on celebrity.

More: hellogiggles.com
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Mordechai Rubinstein

For issue 2, Modechai photographed men in hats.

More: mistermort.com
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Jon Schuller

Jon Schuller is a post-doctoral research scientist specializing in Optical Physics at Columbia University’s Energy Frontiers Research Center. His essay, “Negative Spaces for the Transmission of Light Waves,” appeared in issue 1.

Peter Saville

Art director Peter Saville made a name for himself in the Manchester music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, creating some of the most recognizable record covers of all time, designing now iconic sleeves for Joy Division and New Order among others. Since 2004 Peter has served as creative director to his hometown of Manchester, England, performing a service that led curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist to define him as a “social sculptor.”

For issue 1, Peter wrote an assay considering negative space and its influence on his designs.

More: petersaville.com

Evan Scott

Evan’s photography was featured in issue 1.

More: pphhoottooggrraapphh.com

Joshua Siegal

Joshua Siegel is originally from Philadelphia, currently lives in Brooklyn, and has been drawing sharks for nearly 27 years. Josh’s shark drawings were featured in issue 1.

More: myanimalart.tumblr.com

Bobby Solomon

Bobby is the editor in chief of The Fox is Black.

For issue 2, Bobbly, with Kyle Fitzpatrick, shared his favorite places in Los Angeles.

For issue 1, Bobby contributed an illustration, “Meranoplus Spinosus.”

More: thefoxisblack.com
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Sadie Stein

Sadie Stein is an editor at The Paris Review.

For issue 2, Sadie contributed “Coincidence,” a work of short fiction.

More: thepetitesophisticate.blogspot.com
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Megan Stewart

For issue 1, Megan styled and photographed a look based on the cover of Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore that appeared both in the issue and on select bookmarks included with the issue.

More: anotherdaytodressup.blogspot.com
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Emma Straub

Emma Straub is the author of the story collection Other People We Married and the novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures.

For issue 2, Emma contributed the poem, “july.”

More: emmastraub.net
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Natalia Stuyk

Natalia Stuyk is an illustrator and animator currently living in London.

For issue 2, Natalia illustrated seven album covers to accompany Zooey Deschanel’s “Morning Records for Night Owls and the Faint of Heart.”

More: nataliastuyk.com

Joseph Sullivan

Joseph Sullivan has edited The Book Design Review blog since 2005.

For issue 1, Joseph contributed an essay discussing the much-overlooked art of the book spine.

More: nytimesbooks.blogspot.com
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Tamio Teshima

Tamio Teshima is an illustrator and web designer from Tokyo and creator of the Tamio Nikki travel/art book series.

For issue 2, Tamio contributed an illustrated journal entry depicting “good memories … earthquakes and the nuclear power plant accident in Japan.”

More: en.tamioonews.com

Phillip Toledano

Phillip Toledano is an artist and photographer based in New York City.

For issue 2, Phil contributed “Kim Jong Phil,” a series of paintings.

More: kimjongphil.com, mrtoledano.com

Tina Tyrell

Tina Tyrell is a fashion and portrait photographer based in New York City.

For issue 2, Tina contributed “Nadja’s Suitcase 1989,” a still life reconstruction of a memory.

More: tinatyrell.com

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz is an artist.

For issue 2, Wolfe talked to Laura Havlin about the role of coincidence in his catalogue, The Decent of Man, being chosen by the late Alexander McQueen upon which to write his suicide note.

More: wolfevonlenkiewicz.com

Masthead

Hamish Robertson editor

Hamish is an artist and designer from York, England, currently living in New York City. Afterzine was founded in 2010 and published on Hamish’s imprint, Brown Griffin. Established to showcase the work of Hamish’s friends and acquaintances, and as an outlet to share the inspiring and beautiful work he came across, Afterzine aims to be published biannually but in reality subscribes to Grand Royal editor Bob Mack’s apology: “I’d like to think we’re not late at all but ahead of our time. There are way too many magazines as it is, and you wouldn’t like us as much as you think you do if we came out more often.”

More: hamishrobertson.com, brown-griffin.com
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Laura Havin contributing editor

A contributing editor to Afterzine, Laura is a journalist from Manchester, England currently working in London. Specialising in arts, fashion and culture, she has written for titles that include Dazed & Confused, AnOther, and Interview magazine.

For issue 2, Laura interviewed artist Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz and curator and critic Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

For issue 1, Laura interviewed graphic designers Noma Bar and Peter Saville.

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Andi Teran contributing editor

A contributing editor to Afterzine, Andi writes about film, culture, and style for a handful of publications. She also performs plays for siamese cats, volunteers at 826NYC, and regularly rants on her blog.

For issue 2, Andi interviewed filmmakers Miranda July and Mike Mills, and British band Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.

For issue 1, Andi wrote a short story entitled “The Space Between Lines.”

More: anditeran.com, Verbose Coma
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