“Most of my week is spent clicking, dragging and staring into a laptop,” James Junk (AKA the only graphic designer in LA) tells us. “My job, social life and creative practice all have a way of collapsing into the same few screens, so I’ve been deliberately making and consuming more things that never need to become content.” This is a sentiment that we can safely say is relatable to us all at the moment, and one that the designer has been exploring in Paperless Publishing, his monthly series of essays over on Substack and Instagram about all-things creativity and internet culture.
If you know James’ visual world you’ll be familiar with the residual charm and impact of vintage design that it holds, or as he calls it, an “air of advertising from bygone American eras” – precious undertones of a more tactile time. Finding a similarly tactile theme to his weekends of late, the designer unveils some inspiration for leaving the house, making something with your hands and, most importantly, getting off screens in this wonderfully unplugged weekend with him in LA.