STAT15

Design, collaborative cover work & editorial work. Book-binding. For STAT - ISSUE 15. July 2025.

Back to Lancs: with Rainy Miller | The Roma Nation of Bolton | An Ode to Edgelands | FAC OFF | Travelling Home | Grassroots: The World’s Only Lawnmower Museum | REVIEWS by Hayley Scott, Tilly Foulkes, Isaac Rose and Connor Seed.

The black-on-black artwork of which dons this issue is a piece by artist Matthew Wood, as such the cover and issue design process was collaborative.

One of 250 limited, numbered copies.

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Editorial

I had a dream the other night. I was in Manchester in May 1998, just prior my birth.

It wasn’t an accurate rendering, I must admit. The entire lot was cloaked in a low-poly, late 90s videogame haze as if it were some long-forgotten interactive art project. Either that or a shite mod for Grand Theft Auto. 

I’d cut about scooping up cash off the street, running for buses. I dipped my hands in puddles on the pavement, amazed I could feel the wet. Amazed that, when I dropped a china plate on the ground in this unreliable, ahistorical representation of a city unmarred by skyscrapers, it would smash into pieces on the floor.

You could speak to people in this dream, every odd character you’d walk up to had entirely unique dialogue and could respond to any question you asked. For some reason – probably the underlying assumption this was a late 90s videogame – this was unbelievable. It was beyond me, awe-inspiring, that a world could be so immersive, so responsive: changeable.

Only once I’d woken up did I realise we were already there.

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