“Join us for the second of the Insider Trading panel series, hosted by Eli Rosenbloom. Insider Trading operates on the premise that the best conversations about publishing happen off the record. Taxi rides. Design labs. Deadline decisions. Backstage. Editorial dinners. Loading docks.
The panel series examines the anatomy of publishing before print — turning its attention to the figures who conceive, build, and sustain publications. Each panel creates a forum for candid, substantive conversation among a specific constellation of practitioners, examining the questions the industry runs on but barely surfaces: the money, idiosyncratic design decisions, how stories are formed, and distribution.
The second panel in the series is themed ‘People!’ The stupidly simple and infinitely interesting. Steff Yotka, the newly appointed Editor-in-Chief of i-D, surveys the globe for the legendary magazine’s most granular unit of expertise: individual originality — rewiring a new generation’s idea of what it means to be YOU. Yusuf Hassan’s BlackMass Publishing tunes historical figures to a jazz rhythm through a bricolage of varied paper stocks, literature, and diasporic memory — each publication moving with the urgent flutter of a black-and-white Xerox while carrying the weight of its place in permanent museum collections. Miyako Bellizzi, the Oscar-nominated costume designer, treats character-building as anthropological fieldwork — building each persona layer by layer with the discipline of a true archival digger, whether excavating a distant era or drawing out the seductive magic of mundanity, page by page, frame by frame.”