Travis Scott is celebrating the release of his long-awaited UTOPIA LP with a limited edition zine. The rapper has already put out a series of album-specific merch, including the UTOPIA-branded briefcase he used to tease the project during its rollout.
The 6” by 8” zine made its debut on Sunday, with Scott sharing scans of its pages to his social media. Available on his official website, the zine is described as a “visual essay by various artists” and features six different cover options.
The site previews a few pages of the 112-page zine, spanning contributions of both photography and graphic artwork from individual artists and collectives such as Opioid Crisis Look Book, Matthew Angelo Harrison and OCL and Kristina Nagel.
Most of the artists previewed on the site seem to have worked on several pages for the zine. Michele Siblioni and Pieter Hugo created a circle of chrome chairs. In the middle, a message reads, “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” Another contribution from the duo is photographs of an ancient-appearing sculpture alongside a gummy version of its likeness.
Available online now, the UTOPIA zine is priced at $25 USD and comes with a special edition CD.
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