Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

Edited by Serpentine Gallery's Hans Ulrich Obrist, the hardcover features thought-provoking abstractions from artists, designers, scientists and more

A few years ago, an unusual map of Africa began gaining traction throughout the internet. It showed that the continent is, in fact, larger than the United States, China, Japan, India and all of Europe combined. This realization surprised the many people who had grown up using the popular Mercator projection (a variant of which is also used by Google Maps), which depicts Africa’s size …

Café Racers: Speed, Style and Ton-up Culture

A highly visual survey of 1960s British sub-culture inspired motorcycle designs

Spawned from a 1960s sub-culture of street-racing British rock’n’rollers, the café racer has become a highly admired genre of motorcycle design. Hallmarked by highly modified UK and Italian bikes stripped down to run races on open roads between actual cafés, the handsome, often low-cc, bikes are as popular now as ever—though the original sub-culture itself only “existed” for a decade at most. Paying homage to …

Wild Life Press + Table of Contents

Alt culture publisher Steve Terry brings limited edition and one-off vintage books to the Portland concept shop

Steve Terry is the man behind Wild Life Press, an independent publisher that creates limited edition books (among other things, like a lookbook and even a flexi disc) working in close conjunction with the artist or subject. And by “close,” Terry doesn’t mean phone calls or emails—it involves, for example, sitting down in Ernie Glam’s apartment and going through boxes and boxes of more than …