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The new issue of art, culture and surfing magazine WAX has launched with a bang!

Words by Liv Siddall, Thursday 19 June 2014

You don’t get much cooler than a fluorescent publication about art and surfing produced in Brooklyn, but luckily WAX magazine has proved itself not to just be another trendy rag, but a bonafide pleasure for all who see it. Take, for example, Printed Pages editor James Cartwright’s reaction when it plopped into the It’s Nice That offices the other day – he squealed like a little piggy and ripped off its plastic binding to flick through its fresh, untouched pages.

Before you start stereotyping, WAX ain’t just some magazine about sea-loving boy-men with white dreads, oh no, the guys who make it state that each issue is “organised around a unique theme and shares the stories of area surfers who are also artists, designers, authors and auteurs.” For their fifth issue they’ve produced a super-fun promo video (below) with a Fitter, Happier-esque voiceover crossed with sun-kissed babes frolicking in the sun, which is a really great way of giving you a taste of what vibes are in store before you commit to purchasing a copy.

Inside the mag they’ve got some of the most radical and interesting game-changers of the art world at the moment, such as Cory Arcangel, Lucas Blalock, Xavier Cha and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Anyone else picturing Hans Ulrich Obrist catching a wave in some board shorts and shimmying into the sunset, feet akimbo right now? Me too – juicy! Anyway, summer’s here and this is the perfect magazine to accompany it – so go get yourself a copy, stat.

WAX Magazine Issue 5. Photo by Dafy Hagai

WAX Magazine Issue 5. Photo by David Brandon Geeting

WAX Magazine: Photos courtesy of Selectism. Editorial photo by Erin O’Keefe

WAX Magazine: Photos courtesy of Selectism. Editorial photo by David Brandon Geeting

WAX Magazine: Photos courtesy of Selectism

WAX Magazine: Photos courtesy of Selectism. Editorial photo by John Luke

WAX Magazine: Photos courtesy of Selectism. Editorial photo by Van Robinson

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Stay Golden has notes of science fiction and radical design, with Rodrigo Saavedra citing “[everything from] Gravity, to retro-futuristic collage work from the 70s, like Superstudio, and actual Nasa sketches from the 60s and 70s, which predicted future platforms in space”, as key references. Sci-fi was also a key influence for Dropbox: “There’s this idea that sci-fi writers throughout history have been the creative force behind most major technological progress. They are free to paint an idyllic picture without constraint, and those big ideas inspire others to turn ‘what-if’ into reality”, Michael tells It’s Nice That. And Rodrigo’s balance of realism and “otherworldly whimsy” proved the perfect approach for communicating the feeling of flow: “You’re working, but your mind is free from the normal constraints of the day-to-day”. “[It’s] a world where the way we work can feel enlightened, where process can be beautiful”; where the storytelling tools of fantasy “paint a picture of that world, and then connect that what-if to the very real tools Dropbox designs to help teams work in better ways”, he explains.
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The conundrums dealt with in the film, of various instances of broken workflow, are commonplace in professional environments, “it’s just a direct lift from real life” as Rodrigo says. “Say you’re working with a crew across various countries, and you’re all flowing on Dropbox. You’re sharing files with ease, and commenting on each other’s work, and things are fitting together” Rodrigo describes. “Then a new person joins and decides to send a file in some bizarre format, and worst maybe they do it over email… You get the gist. Well, that’s the frustration we wanted to capture, this feeling of helplessness when suddenly one piece just doesn’t fit the rest of the work.”

These are workplace trials and tribulations that people and teams all over the world will recognise and want to resolve. “Honestly, when I started working for Dropbox, I had no idea how powerful its tools really were,” says Michael. “But now my whole work ecosystem is connected in a way that saves me crazy amounts of time and effort. I’ve eliminated so much wasted time digging for emails, switching through apps to find info, and waiting to solve things in meetings.”

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