Pilot #6

Pilot is a magazine and creative engine that values craftsmanship, community, and a disregard for doing things just one way. Pilot platforms risk-takers across art and culture, featuring stories that are raw and real. In the pursuit of constant experimentation, each issue of the magazine reinvents its format and design.

In this issue: You Are Here

Pilot takes on the iconic shopping mall map direction, solar system earth float meme caption, The Power of Now invitation billboarded, clichéd phrase of utility and prophecy: You Are Here. An exploration of attention and distraction, of public consciousness and information overwhelm, this issue asks if presence is always necessary? Can escapism offer clarity? And what does it truly mean - to be here, now? Highlights include: designer Matthew Prebeg on digital liminality as an opportunity for reflection and reorientation, writer Valerie Estrina on serenity in radical acceptance, aka “What the hell? Sure.”, and entrepreneur comedian Kareem Rahma on letting go of the need for meaning entirely.

The sixth edition of Pilot is oversized and interactive, with perforated spreads that are meant to be torn, folded, and transformed into sculptural forms. "Turning attention itself into a material." 

United Kingdom; 37x36cm; 30 pages, exposed coptic stitch, annually