Still magazine

There’s an operation that can’t be patented. Not because no one invented it, but because it’s been invented a thousand times—and each time anew. You take something that’s not yours. You tear it out of context. You place it somewhere new. You see what happens. Sometimes—nothing. Sometimes—something that never existed before. This isn’t a quotation. A quotation keeps the source visible, acknowledges the debt, puts quotation marks around it. This isn’t plagiarism: plagiarism hides the source, pretends it never happened. And it’s not a remix in the banal sense that word has acquired in the age of streaming services. It’s a sample.

Still magazine is an educational project made at Central University in Moscow, under the supervision of Ivan Velichko (Shuka).

I was honored that Brownfox allowed me to use the Antonym font in the project. I chose it for its unique mix of sans-serif and serif style, as the magazine issue was dedicated to sampling. The accompanying sans is CoFo Gothic by Contrast Foundry.