Profile

Atlas Publications is an artmaking and publishing practice founded by Justin Carey, working across digital and print publishing, visual art, objects, and writing. Its approach is rooted in curation, observation, and the careful arrangement of material, treating publishing not simply as a method of distribution, but as a way of mapping relationships between image, language, object, memory, and form.

Inspired by the idea of the atlas as both archive and orientation system, Atlas Publications gathers fragments of visual culture, personal inquiry, and material experience into considered editions and objects. Each project functions as a kind of visual map: a means of locating attention, organizing meaning, and giving shape to ideas that might otherwise remain scattered.

Through mindful production and restrained, intentional design, Atlas Publications explores how publishing can become a form of world-building. Its work moves between the personal and the cultural, the tactile and the digital, the archival and the speculative, creating publications and objects that invite slower looking, deeper noticing, and a more deliberate relationship to the things we make, keep, and carry.

Biography

Born
Bennington, Vermont; 1993
Based
New York City, Philadelphia
Education
Maine College of Art & Design
Occupation
Graphic Designer, Design Educator
Teaching
Shillington School of Graphic Design
Thomas Jefferson University
Moore College of Art & Design

Contact

Founder, Want Studio
Artist, Educator, Designer
+1 802 558 3753
justin[at]want.studio

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