PLATES #2 Body Issue

Creative Direction & Design by RELATED DEPARTMENT & Can Yang
Published by Page Bureau

The physicality of a human body denotes our essential relationship to forms and being. Yet, if placed in different contexts, the notion of body could collapse into a synonym to a surface, a machine, a system, or an automated assemblage in capitalism, media technology, politics, and the Internet. A body could lack transparency, concreteness and authenticity while still claiming its very identity and functionality. In its second iteration, PLATES presents collective voices which address issues around a corporal body, a virtual entity, body politic, identity, body mechanics, bodilessness, expressive/performative body, body as tools, or any body issue in relation to their practice. 

In this issue, RELATED DEPARTMENT collaborates with London-based multidisciplinary artist and visual designer Can Yang on creative direction and design.  

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PLATES serves an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format.

Contributors include: Bryson Lee, Can Can Press, Clement Valla, Common Imprint, Laura Coombs & Mindy Seu, Luna Maurer, Studio Moniker, Radical Characters + Body & Forma, Source Type & Mara Frazier, Stephanie Specht, Tiger Dingsun

8.5 x 11.25 inches
Paperback
2025