Newdream is a great memory! The exploding of new media/design zines of in the late 1990s was really something. Newdream of course, but Lockjaw, K10K, Kiiroi, Ne

Newdream is a great memory! The exploding of new media/design zines of in the late 1990s was really something. Newdream of course, but Lockjaw, K10K, Kiiroi, Newstoday, Uploading...man, that was a cool time. I loved that ethos. It just seemed like it was group after group of really talented teenagers with pirated copies of Photoshop putting together these elaborate projects and releases, sort of like the demo scene in Europe or the elite ANSI group artpacks from the BBS days. I haven’t thought about it or them in forever, but Lockjaw was my favorite. Whenever they’d have a release, it may as well have been my favorite band releasing a new album. You could just see how quickly the modern aesthetics (and what people figured out they could do with JavaScript) were changing. I worked part-time for a design studio back then (eventually bought by Razorfish, which should really date my story to a specific era!) and it was just so visibly obvious that the print designers weren’t going to be able to catch up. The new wave took over so fast, and it was all these cool punk kids who could design it and code it at the same time. I hesitate to call it “better” because there was nothing even close to frameworks or version control or anything back then. But it was certainly more original.