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The negative space in Anna Peaker's record covers, tape packages, and posters has a more active role than expected. For her Hookworms single cover for "Too Pure" (top of the post), the isolation of each image makes the collection of objects look more like a series of important symbols instead of a narrative image. Her Risograph posters show a similar restraint, while incorporating elements of collage.

Anna Peaker lives in Leeds. Keep track of her work on Tumblr. 






The cover of Chris Nosenzo's Packet biweekly zine has three constants: a date stamp, a title stamp, and a single staple in the top left corner. The rest of the contents are a largely collaborative effort: each issue features the work of roughly nine artists collectively producing about 20 pages of work. Past issues have included a mix of photos (see Bill Callahan in "Would Wife" below), artist interviews, comics, drawings, and even a few paintings. Each copy is printed with a Risograph, stapled by hand, and shipped to you in, well, a packet.

Packet Biweekly's latest, Issue #011, is available now for $4, and a wire-bound collection of the first six issues goes for $24.

“SoHo Forestry Guide” by Bridget Collins


Damien Correll Packet #010


Would Wife by Anthony Cudahy

The cover of Hannah K. Lee's new Mascots zine should look familiar. If you've eaten a banana in the last 100 years or so, the friendly Chiquita banana lady with her bountiful hat should trigger at least one memory. Lee's continuation of the image, the same lady's blue legs surrounded by dropped fruit, however, may not be as familiar. In Mascots, Lee reinterprets the corporate images and brand logos we see daily, like giving Marlboro's classic Reds box playful cursive lettering, manipulating the Zig Zag Rolling Papers bearded man, and turning the Green Giant into a comic book villain. 

Hannah K. Lee contributes lettering and illustration for the likes of GQ, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's Lucky Peach. Mascots was printed on a Risograph at San Francisco's Mission Risoplex and is available in the Nothing Major shop.