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"Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!" - Trump, 2013 Between then and now, the average global temperature has increased by an unprecedented 0.8 degrees. Two-thirds of this occurred in the last 43 years. It's Freezing in LA! is a new, independent 3 magazine with a fresh perspective on climate change. Too often, environmental discussion is polarized into one of two categories: the remote, technical language of science, or the hotheaded outrage of activism. This magazine finds the middle ground, inviting writers and illustrators from a variety of fields to give us their take on how climate change will affect – and is affecting – society. We want to help untangle the climate tensions and choices that our generation will have to navigate by platforming as many different perspectives as we can find. IFLA! provides original, engaging and surprising content – widening environmental discussion and offering a range of vocabulary and insights not found elsewhere. IFLA! features bright opinions on our greatest challenges. ​

In Eye on Design #05, the “Distraction” issue, we look at how design influences entertainment, technology, work—and your ability to pay attention to it all. We explore how the influx of notifications, screens, and unread emails are shaping the way we think, and we probe how distraction can be a form of escapism and a necessary element in any creative process.

Within these beautifully designed pages you’ll find stories of movement across borders and along pavements. Our first print issue includes new work by Ian Bogost, Khary Septh, Amy Brill and others, with stories about skateboarding and capitalism, intergalactic commerce, and Venezuelan professor, author and VC cult hero, Carlota Perez.

"2019 must be the year that we muster all our collective courage and strength to put the restoration and protection of the natural world at the heart of our economy." \- Caroline Lucas MP Following a tumultuous 2018 for climate action, at IFLA! we've been thinking about profound change. In issue 2 we consider how best to prioritize indigenous voices, redesign design questions and take a look at a long history of attempts to change the weather. We look at peat bogs and algae; cosmetics and tungsten bulbs, and untangle a few more strands of humanity's greatest challenge.

Artificial Intelligence has already transformed humanity for the better, but its downsides are no less insidious than the plots of dystopian sci-fi fantasies that taught us to fear a robotic future. Humanity’s next challenge will be how to navigate all this uncertainty by designing systems and frameworks that protect us from AI’s potential dangers.

A science fiction magazine where writers, designers and researchers of the past and present come together to explore the future. Visions blends essays and short stories from both masters of the genre and newcomers to paint a provocative landscape of the future that connoisseur and neophyte alike can enjoy and reflect on. Issue One looks at the shape-shifting concept of home through thirty different lenses, from a planet to a device, from your friends to yourself. It’s 256 pages thick, beautifully typeset and shipped straight to your door.

Printed in a special brassy Pantone colour, issue 20 is filled to the brim with stimulating conversations urgently relevant to each of us working in tech. We think it’s one of the most thought-provoking issues yet. Also included, since it’s our twentieth (!) issue: we’re checking in with every interviewee from the past to find out what they’re up to.