It's freezing in LA! Visible Signs

Visible Signs that Something Isn’t Right is the first publication to be produced outside of It’s Freezing in LA!’s usual printing schedule. Throughout its pages are a collection of creative projects on a variety of themes, from mushrooms to oil companies; at the same time covering various creative forms, from theatre to photography.

VSTSTIR’s was made in collaboration with the graphic design duo Open Practice (Katie Evans and Gabriela Matuszyk). They were commissioned to reinterpret the existing design templates from IFLA!’s main series with the word ‘Retrofitting’ as a starting point. Retrofitting is a process in architecture involving modification of an existing structure by introducing new components. The cover design incorporates this idea by including elements of the main issue with the new title overprinted on top. The typography embraces the history of IFLA!’s font, Peace, mixing old and new releases of the typeface in the spirit of retrofitting.

In this issue: Visible Signs That Something Isn’t Right

• Gardens designed by algorithms
• Field recordings of our shifting planet
• Paintings by the ‘Plant Name-Giver’
• Sculpting with plastic
• Preparing sustainable theatre 
• How to navigate a fictional map
• Neurodiversity and ecological making