We believe the grid is a cage worth living in — break it on purpose, never by accident. Every issue of RASTER starts as a system and ends as a fight.
Polish is a lie people tell to avoid finishing. We print typos. We leave the registration marks in. The seams are the point.
If it looks too comfortable on the page, it wasn't worth saying. RASTER exists for the sentence that makes the layout uncomfortable, and the layout that makes the sentence louder.
On the sounds design makes when nobody's listening — a study of ambient interface friction.
Typography's most forgivable sin, examined at forensic length by three type nerds and a lawyer.
A love letter to the photocopier and everything it taught the internet about collage.
Web design 1996–2003, reappraised without irony, mostly.
Interviews with five designers who quit the feed and kept working anyway.
Our biggest issue yet: the anti-portfolio portfolio, guest-edited by nobody in particular.
Four editors, one risograph, zero investors. We commission work from people who've never been published and edit it like they already have been. Every layout is built by hand in the browser before it ever sees paper — RASTER is a design system that refuses to sit still.