Every plate we have run

The Image Archive

Every image the publication has published, newest first. Most were art-directed for a single story, made once, and never used again. Each plate is numbered in the order it ran and links back to the piece it was made for.

Plates
456
Pieces
260
Beyond the lead
196
Archive opens
Feb 14, 2026
Waveforms dissolving above a home studio desk — a creator's catalog caught in uncertain legal territory 0433 Body plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. A walled garden of luminescent musical notation, accessible only through a narrow gate — the enclosed, licensed infrastructure of AI music… 0432 Body plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. Dark server racks lit by a single overhead beam, with glowing sinusoidal wave-traces drifting from the vents into surrounding… 0431 Lead plate Suno Scraped YouTube. Germany Found the Music Inside. Workers faking AI usage dashboards while doing the real work manually 0408 Body plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. The creative judgment in game dev flows in a different direction than the adoption mandates 0407 Body plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. A warm lamplit studio of drafting tables and pinned sketches divided down the middle from a cold blue boardroom lit by a bar… 0406 Lead plate Game Devs Said No to AI. Their Bosses Are Mandating It Anyway. A worn metal android head against a dark background, lit warm from the right — the lower face a smooth unbroken plate with no mouth, the eyes glowing pale cyan. 0386 Lead plate The Mouth I Didn’t Build 52% of game development professionals surveyed at GDC 2026 believe generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, up from 18%… 0379 Body plate The Solo Developer Has Arrived. Nobody Is Coming After Them. What AI eliminates concretely: the three-person loop of junior programmer, senior reviewer, and QA engineer collapsed into one seat with AI… 0378 Body plate The Solo Developer Has Arrived. Nobody Is Coming After Them. One warmly lit desk with a working monitor at the centre of a vast dark open-plan office of empty workstations, seen… 0377 Lead plate The Solo Developer Has Arrived. Nobody Is Coming After Them. ZERO HORIZON run card showing callsign UNIT-620, 48730 points, reached wave 14, with a glowing horizon arc and the play… 0354 Body plate ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS ZERO HORIZON title screen with callsign entry, QUICK JOIN SQUAD button, and a monolith rising behind the interface… 0353 Body plate ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS T-0 robot on a small dark planet facing three red drones, with violet and gold beacon pillars rising from pickups near the curved… 0352 Body plate ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS A screenshot from a low-poly co-op shooter: a small teal robot on a dark plain between two glowing beacon columns as red enemies close… 0351 Lead plate ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS Art dark, capital lit: the structural dynamic that shaped Artificial 0350 Body plate Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It. The acquisition that wasn 0349 Body plate Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It. A vintage film projector casting its beam onto a rough stone slab standing where the cinema screen should be, rows of empty red seats around… 0348 Lead plate Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It. A hand writing in an open book by a sunlit window, the ink lifting off the page as a ribbon of light that breaks into digital… 0322 Lead plate Telisha Jones Built an AI Gospel Voice. Suno’s Lawsuit May End It. A grid of identical blue-lit screens stacked in a dark void, every one showing the same figure 0312 Lead plate Tairell Isn’t Real. Neither Are We. A sold-out concert hall awaiting the verdict 0280 Body plate Marcel Dances Alone. The Crowd at Lincoln Center Lost Its Mind. The workspace of an AI filmmaker at 3am, building Paris from prompts 0279 Body plate Marcel Dances Alone. The Crowd at Lincoln Center Lost Its Mind. A figure dancing alone in a lit apartment window above a dark rain-slicked cobbled street 0278 Lead plate Marcel Dances Alone. The Crowd at Lincoln Center Lost Its Mind. A vintage film projector casts a warm beam across a dark industrial hall onto a sealed steel gate — a finished film playing to a locked door, with no screen and no audience. 0252 Lead plate AI Made This Film Possible. AI Is Why No One Will Distribute It. A graphic composition: a generative-art system resolving left-to-right from raw glowing signal-paths into an intricate plotter-drawn bloom, framed in gilt on a gallery wall. 0250 Body plate AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty. A hand-thrown ceramic vessel glowing under a warm gallery spotlight, set before an infinite receding grid of identical flat screens whose light cools to grey static. 0249 Body plate AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty. An editorial illustration: a vast floor of thousands of identical commodity images caving into a dark void at the center, while the far edges rise into luminous framed works and harden into carved objects. 0248 Body plate AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty. A lone figure at a small desk on a dark plane, dwarfed by an immense cinematic dreamscape of waves, canyon and city pouring upward out of their screen's light. 0247 Body plate AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty. A cross-section of a 19th-century portrait studio splitting in two: mass-produced photographic cards on one side, a single hand-painted miniature on the other, the painter's bench abandoned under a dust sheet between them. 0246 Lead plate AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty.
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