Local Optimist Issue 01. A quarterly print magazine for radical discovery and connection. Issue 01 features written works and profiles on a harmonic group of creatives: Echo Park’s great ceramicist, designer, and former Memphis Group collaborator Peter Shire, exuberant, color-centric stylist Shirely Kurata, multi-hyphenate artist Sofie Royer, Tom Wright of NYC’s Toms Juice, thinker and curator Josh Itiola, Forest Bathing specialist Dr. Qing Li, alongside original artworks by Colin Sussingham, Kentaro Okawara, and Chris Burnett.
102 pages printed in Bruges.
Local Optimist Issue 01. A quarterly print magazine for radical discovery and connection. Issue 01 features written works and profiles on a harmonic group of creatives: Echo Park’s great ceramicist, designer, and former Memphis Group collaborator Peter Shire, exuberant, color-centric stylist Shirely Kurata, multi-hyphenate artist Sofie Royer, Tom Wright of NYC’s Toms Juice, thinker and curator Josh Itiola, Forest Bathing specialist Dr. Qing Li, alongside original artworks by Colin Sussingham, Kentaro Okawara, and Chris Burnett.
102 pages printed in Bruges.