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The Drop: Printing, Packaging, and Shipping
The Drop: Printing, Packaging, and Shipping

"Printed, signed, packaged, and parceled."

Presales are moving fast—80 copies sold before the zines even left the press. Now, it’s all about getting them into people’s hands.

First stop was screen printing envelopes at Stitching Up Detroit. Bryan was kind enough to offer a workshop to get me up to speed. Since then I've been spending time in the shop, printing, and witnessing the packaging come together by hand. Really digging the physicality of it, the time spent, and each part of the process.

Now, the first batch is getting parcelled and hitting the mail these past few days. People are already showing love—posting them on desks, in cars, spread out on beds, holding them up with their nails did and all that. LOL Seeing how the zines and landing, how people are engaging with them is making the work feel complete in a whole new way!






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The Zines Take Shape: Uso Car Club 30th Anniversary
The Zines Take Shape: Uso Car Club 30th Anniversary

As The Lowriders book is coming together, the first zine in the series is also in motion. 

Back in Detroit, I’ve been able to open up and share the process as an extension of the work with Alan and Bonnie in New York—inviting peers, mentors, and lowriders to experience the sequence physically.

At the studio I can invite critique in way that people are able to move through the space, sit with the images, play around with proofs and even make notes. It’s been a great way to celebrate the work and to inspire and connect in a way that adds layers to the process.

Andre Moore is part of that community of friends/peers. Working with Andre on this has been a process of discovery, and it is an honor to also be working with him on the first zine in the series: The Lowriders: Uso Car Club 30th Anniversary.

His eye for sequencing and storytelling keeps unlocking new ways to see the images—pairings that sharpen meaning, rhythms that bring new energy. Late evenings, long conversations, and  the kind of creative collaboration that pushes the work forward. We’re going back and forth, laying out spreads, testing arrangements, finding the flow.

The first proofs are back from the printer, and even in rough form, it’s unreal to hold them in hand. The final copies are just around the corner. Can’t wait to get these into your hands.





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