The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) features Low-tech Magazine's solar powered website in its latest show: "Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film".
2025-05-29 13:46:58 +0000 UTC
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Low-tech Magazine is working on four more books to expand the thematic series. The first one will be available in a few weeks. Choosing the themes for the books and selecting the articles is often ...
2025-05-13 13:10:57 +0000 UTC
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Low-tech Magazine is not made by robots, but by flesh-and-blood people, with all their imperfections. In this series, we give a look behind the scenes. In this photo, from left to right: intern Hug...
2025-05-02 08:41:39 +0000 UTC
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Coming Tuesday we organize a book launch event in Brussels where we talk about the design process behind the 2025-04-27 13:56:30 +0000 UTC
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Earlier this year Rachel Donald interviewed me for her podcast "Planet: critical". Here's the video. Also check out the other episodes, there's lot of interesting stuff there. 2024-09-18 11:59:28 +0000 UTC
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We published a new article on Low-tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bath...
2024-09-17 11:18:44 +0000 UTC
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Our new thematic book is now available as a epub.
It is free to download for all patrons who are contributing as a "bike generator" or "windmill".
2024-07-23 21:45:21 +0000 UTC
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It took some time, but here's the video of our event in February in Barcelona this year. The (short) intro is in Spanish, but all talks are in English.
2024-06-29 18:13:52 +0000 UTC
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Patrons who subscribe to the "windmill" tier receive ten Low-tech Magazine stickers (1 design) and six postcards (3 designs) in their postbox. We will publish at least one new collection of sticker...
2024-05-23 13:10:35 +0000 UTC
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Low-tech Magazine opened its first physical bookstore. It is located in AkashaHub, a co-working and event space in Barcelona, Spain. The bookshop - built by Marie Verdeil - is open Monday to Friday...
2024-05-07 11:47:40 +0000 UTC
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More info: https://www.meetup.com/akashabarcelona/events/299157033/
Poster design: Johanna Gra...
2024-02-12 23:17:07 +0000 UTC
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The accessibility of the solar-powered website depends on the season. Finding the right time to publish new content and send newsletters can be challenging in winter. Furthermore, as the battery of...
2024-01-03 22:43:52 +0000 UTC
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This weekend I published a new article and this morning I sent out a newsletter to 14,000 subscribers. Unfortunately, I did so during one of the worst summer storms ever in Barcelona, being unaware...
2023-08-27 21:04:59 +0000 UTC
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Spotted at the Schesaplana (2,996 metres), the summit of Vorarlberg in Austria. Images by Marie Verdeil. We have printed 1,000 stickers for promotion purposes and are curious to know if Patrons are...
2023-08-23 21:29:21 +0000 UTC
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We have redesigned the tiers for the Patreon page. From now on, there are four tiers, each with their own benefits to which we will adhere to. We will be producing more exclusive content in the com...
2023-06-13 14:21:59 +0000 UTC
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During the last months we have been working on switching the 2023-06-11 09:26:34 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here's a Patreon preview of the comic that Guillaume Lion made about Low-tech Magazine. It was first published in the Belgian magazine 2023-05-12 21:52:44 +0000 UTC
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We resumed the publishing of our video series, showcasing the possibilities of human power generation. The video abov...
2023-05-12 21:37:53 +0000 UTC
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Almost every article I write leaves a paper trail, and these printed and scribbled draft versions pile up every few years. This time, before offering the paper for recycling, I photographed all dra...
2023-04-30 20:41:52 +0000 UTC
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Germán Canyelles on guitar, Lorenzo Patuzzo on the bike.
More about the bike generator: 2023-04-04 21:08:51 +0000 UTC
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Musician Germán Canyelles uses Low-tech Magazine's bike generator to power his electric guitar in Barcelona last Friday.
2023-04-04 21:05:51 +0000 UTC
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Getting the complete solar web team in one place at the same time is a challenge. This is the closest we got in Barcelona last week. From left to right: Kris De Decker, Roel Roscam Abbing, Marie Ot...
2023-03-27 18:09:02 +0000 UTC
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The complete solar web team is in Barcelona to continue work on the project. Here's a presentation and Q&A we did yesterday at Akasha Hub.
2023-03-17 21:20:00 +0000 UTC
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Guillaume Lion, a filmmaker and cartoonist based in Brussels, spent a few weeks behind the scenes of Low-tech Magazine to make a comic for the Belgian magazine "2023-01-07 21:36:13 +0000 UTC
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The newest Low-tech Magazine book collects 18 articles published between 2018 and 2021. Patrons 2021-11-27 11:54:20 +0000 UTC
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We're launching several new books in the coming weeks & months.
The first one available is a second edition of the first book we published in 2019. This new edition has almost twice...
2021-11-01 16:53:42 +0000 UTC
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The second volume of the printed website contains 32 articles originally published between 2007 and 2012. The book has 620 pages and 268 images, and sells for $25.20 in the Lulu Bookstore. It will ...
2019-11-26 18:23:48 +0000 UTC
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The Low-tech Magazine book is finally for sale -- and it has 159 illustrations. The 710-page pap...
2019-04-02 18:48:37 +0000 UTC
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Renewable energy production is almost entirely aimed at the generation of electricity. However, we use more energy in the form of heat, which solar panels and wind turbines can supply only indirect...
2019-02-26 19:05:12 +0000 UTC
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