Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature that bend time and genre and perspective, blur waking and dreaming life, find sublimity and absurdity in the everyday, magnify the senses, multiply and distort the possibilities of narrative, and interrogate power by breaking form. The first issue, on the theme of dying, features fifty contributors over 176 lush pages.

Creative direction and editorial design aimed to create a bizarre experience in the hand and the eye: scans of paper reprinted as faux backgrounds, hand-painted photo collages cosplaying as digital renders paired with a formal, minimalist typographic palette.

⬤ 8.5 x 9.5”, 7” front cover flap, 176pp, matte cover and interior, fully recyclable
⬤ Available at elasticmag.com

⬤ Creative direction, design: Natalie Shields, Chloe Scheffe